We reached 100 students at GMF!
Officially, the program began in June 2020 with a group of students from Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine in response to the limitations that COVID-19 generated.
A few months later, a couple of groups from Harvard Medical School continued the initiative, and the online medical Spanish program that we call Give Me Five (P010GMF in our catalog) consolidated itself as the fastest-growing program in the last three years.
During this period, students from other universities such as Saint Louis University School of Medicine have also participated until this past October 2023, we registered the 100th student who successfully participated in this program.
IHCAI Institute thanks the academic authorities of the various universities that have supported this initiative, as well as all the students who have actively participated.
Although this experience has limitations and does not replace the cultural immersion of the mother program P010A that began in 2001, it is a relatively low-cost educational training that produces benefits that have been systematically measured and evaluated with each group that has participated.
Our goal, as always in this type of program, is for health students to acquire tools for better communication with Hispanic migrant patients at the point of care. While most beginner students generate a rapid qualitative change in their level of medical Spanish, the most advanced students manage to refresh and polish their acquired skills. A second language is a muscle that requires frequent stimulation.
Finally, we thank all the instructors who have been part of the IHCAI Institute team and who have helped us improve the innovative educational tools that we have generated for this course that take advantage of the virtues of current technology.
Student group memory of the Harvard Medical School groups of September and October 2023...
