Professional Development
Professionals find our Professional Development Seminars to be a great way to earn up to 50 clock hours of language learning related to their careers. We offer a wide variety of activities so that every learner has a chance to develop new skills in the target language.
Spanish for Healthcare Professionals
Learn to communicate effectively with and better understand your Spanish-speaking patients.
Spanish for Healthcare Professionals is designed to immerse participants in Spanish language and culture. Upon arrival, you will be assigned to a small group based on language ability. The active and interactive classes will typically begin with a brief grammar/vocabulary lesson followed immediately by in-class conversation with fictitious Spanish-speaking characters. You will practice your Spanish with the “patients” and learn to communicate with those who are receiving healthcare in a second language.
Each day, a session will be held on culturally significant issues that healthcare professionals need to understand in order to respectfully interact with Spanish-speaking clients and give the best possible care. The program concludes with individual one-on-one patient simulations. The instructors are primarily native speakers from Central and South America.
For beginning language learners, this course will allow healthcare professionals to communicate using Spanish in basic every-day situations. For intermediate and advanced speakers, the course will focus on enhancing vocabulary in more complex medical situations.
Spanish for Healthcare Professionals is held at El Lago del Bosque, the Spanish Language Village, in the peaceful North Woods of Minnesota. You’ll indulge in gourmet cuisine representative of many different Spanish-speaking cultures. Our comfortable and supportive setting will allow you to leave behind your day-to-day world and concentrate on learning in this intensive immersion environment.