This blog aims to provide tools for IHCAI students who participate in medical Spanish course (P010A). You will find links to sites where you can practice, clarify doubts and expand your Spanish skills. There are also materials used in class by instructors. IHCAI staff appreciates your effort and interest in exploring new frontiers. We hope that your time with us will be helpful and you will grow personally and professionally. IHCAI contact information at the bottom of this site...
Sunday, November 12, 2023
Friday, August 18, 2023
This year, we have
based ourselves on the Disney film saga on the free adaptation of myths and
legends of pirates and corsairs in the Caribbean seas. It is not the first time
we use Disney themes to create the atmosphere of the course. Already in 2019,
we made the adaptation of "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling with
the graphic profile of the two Disney Studios films, the first from 1967 and
the most recent from 2016. For IHCAI Institute this graphic design involves a
constant effort to innovate, it also reminds us of the need to generate playful
and creative educational experiences, in addition to presenting the work teams
that are partially renewed each year. The combination of young instructors and
others with a lot of experience has been successful. It allows us to combine
the technical quality that comes from cultivating skills, with the vigor and
dynamism of youth.
This course brings
together the efforts of a great team of professionals led from Boston by Nicte
Mejia, MD, MPH, Faculty Director at HMS ME518, and Kari Hannibal, Administrator
of the Academic Engagement Program and program manager at HMS. Giovanna Tapia,
director of Spanish Immersion Jamaica Plain & Brookline, also participates.
This is a community initiative of Spanish-speaking people from Boston. They
enrich the course by practicing Spanish with senior medical students and
facilitating their understanding of the Hispanic migrant culture.
On behalf of the IHCAI
Institute based in Costa Rica, the course is coordinated by Prof. Yuri Baidal,
Director of Program Development, and Prof. Alba Vargas, coordinator of the
Department of Teaching Spanish as a Second Language. This year, the
participation of three young physicians from Honduras who will develop the
content of the program's clinical scenarios stands out.
¡Suerte a todos y todas en esta nueva aventura en la que navegaremos por
la lengua y la cultura hispana!
Director General
IHCAI Institute
Faculty Team of Give Me Five 2023
Spanish Language Department:
Prof. Alba Vargas / Spanish instructor – Grammar emphasis
Prof. Yuri Baidal / Spanish instructor – Grammar emphasis
Clinical scenarios:
Prof. Nicole Rivera
Prof. Wendy López
Prof. Alejandra Craniotis
Friday, August 12, 2022
New adventure through the immensities of the
Hispanic culture and language
In response
to the Covid-19 crisis, the IHCAI Institute team, working hand in hand with the
academic authorities of Harvard Medical School (HMS), developed the online medical
Spanish course that we entitled "Give Me Five" early in 2020. Because
its first editions were successful -4 in total since two sessions were held in
2020 and 2021, Two new sessions have been scheduled for September and October of
2022.
2021 is a particular
year due to the departure of Dr. Manuel Guillermo Herrera. Under the "ME
518" course at Harvard Medical School, he began this initiative in 1971 to
provide future doctors with better skills in caring for the Hispanic community
living at a social disadvantage in the United States.
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Medical
Language Program Goals at HMS web page: https://meded.hms.harvard.edu/medical-languages
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It
has been more than 50 years of uninterrupted work. Because of that, we
have decided to commemorate the trajectory of the course by parodying Jules
Verne and his legendary work: "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".
HMS "ME 518" has become a global effort with multiple leaders working as a unified team. Currently headed from Boston by Nicte Mejia, MD, MPH, Faculty Director of the HMS ME518, and Kari Hannibal, Scholarly Engagement Program Administrator and program manager at HMS; The IHCAI Institute team in Costa Rica joins under the coordination of Yuri Baidal, Program Development Director and Alba Vargas, coordinator of the Department of Teaching Spanish as a Second Language. We also want to mention the contribution made by Giovanna Tapia, Spanish Immersion Jamaica Plain & Brookline Director. She, together with her work group of Spanish-speaking seniors from Boston, enriched the course's heritage by practicing Spanish with the senior medical students and facilitating the understanding of the Hispanic migrant culture.
¡Suerte a todos y todas en esta nueva aventura por las
inmensidades de la lengua y la cultura hispana!
Dr. Mario Tristan
Director
General
IHCAI Institute
Faculty Team of Give Me Five 2022
Spanish Language Department:
Prof. Alba Vargas / Spanish instructor – Grammar emphasis
Prof. Yuri Baidal / Spanish instructor – Grammar emphasis
Clinical scenarios:
Prof. Julissa
Barrios / Clinical scenarios instructor – Clinical emphasis
Prof. Daniela Gutierrez / Clinical scenarios instructor – Clinical emphasis
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Friday, August 27, 2021
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Taking the technological leap in distance learning was a challenge for the Institute's entire language department. It was taken up with enthusiasm and also with some haste, motivated by the Covid-19 crisis that completely paralyzed the normal flow of students in the high season. However, since some teaching materials had already been modified with the future establishment of this type of course in mind, the jump was easier.
From the total of the 10 BUSM students, after applying the standardized tests to determine the level of Spanish of the participants, 2 groups were formed: The first with 6 students of a beginning level; the second with 4 students with fluent Spanish. Excellent results were obtained in both groups at the end of the 4-week experience. The key to success lay mainly in the commitment and excellent receptivity of all participating students.
The two lines of work were very different, the students with less Spanish strengthened the basic subjects and at the end of the course, they managed to overcome the barrier of the past tenses. The most advanced sailed from the beginning in the sea of the subjunctive and showed interest in cleaning up accumulated vices and weaknesses in their long learning of the language. In terms of the emphasis of the course on the clinical interview, the most beginners concentrated on the correct formulation of questions, on the use of the imperative for physical examination, on the explanation of medical procedures, and on informing the patient of diagnoses and treatments. The most advanced were able to sharpen their skills through the analysis of clinical cases.
At the Institute's management level, special recognition is given to Dr. Franz Biehl and Prof. Alba Vargas, who are respectively in charge of the clinical scenarios and grammar scenarios classes. Without the dedicated commitment and quality of their work, this wonderful experience would not have been possible.
If you are interested in the IHCAI Institute programs do not hesitate to contact us at info@ihcai.org
Thursday, March 26, 2020
I need to learn medical Spanish for my job
IHCAI Institute offers a new alternative to learn medical Spanish online through its virtual platform. It is a high-quality and reasonable-cost alternative, with high-profile native Spanish speakers instructors and innovative materials.IHCAI Institute has 20 years of experience teaching medical Spanish for medical students and other health professionals. We have conducted over 100 successful sessions with student groups at our headquarters in Costa Rica and trained a thousand students.
In 2017, we formally started using our virtual classroom for continuing education for Central American physicians in the field of evidence-based medicine.
Now, with all this successful experience, we launched the online medical Spanish course for all health professionals around the world.
We have chosen 5 as the magic number since they are the fingers of the hand with which we learned to write. We invite you to read the details of this distance learning option in the P10GMF program prospectus.