Dominical: Medical Spanish Program

Dominical is a sparsely populated rural area of Costa Rica , and is served medically by small walk up clinics. The main local hospital is located in the city of San Isidro which is logistically too far for visitations. All our visitations are done through the cooperation of these clinics and additional community outreach projects.

This Dominical Medical Spanish program was developed to help Medical Professionals and Medical Students improve their knowledge of Spanish as it pertains to their profession, communicating in a culturally sensitive method with Spanish speaking patients and their families, and improved diagnosis abilities due to more productive description of patient symptoms and medical histories. By combining in class exercises, specialized vocabulary and homework with medical volunteer opportunities in local clinics and hospitals, we believe this is the most comprehensive program of its kind.

Every day participants will be given specific vocabulary to study as well as in class participation which will reinforce those new words and terms. In this program students will spend one afternoon visiting the local clinics. Most weeks there will also be other activities such as, morning sessions of a community outreach program and evening meetings with a Costa Rican medical professional for a language exchange.