Registration fee
UDLAP ID (access to all campus services: gym, sports facilities, UDLAP health services)
Orientation session
One Spanish course (3 credits)
Professional internship (3 credits)
Three informative talks on health-related topics
Two visits to hospitals
Cultural activities
Weekend trip to Cuetzalan
Lodging at on-campus dormitories
Meal plan
Closing ceremony
UDLAP transcript
ID 349 Spanish III: Spanish for Health Professions - This Spanish course, at the intermediate high level, has a communicative-functional orientation aimed to help participants develop knowledge, skills and attitudes related to health, through the practice of functions needed for successful communication in this particular environment. As part of the course work, you will perform a research monograph in themes related to medicine in Mexico in the following areas:
Medicine in Mexico
Concepts of health-illness
Physician/patient Relationship
Mexico’s public Health System
Common illnesses in Mexico
Legislation of medical practice in Mexico
This is a unique opportunity to observe and learn about the culture of medicine in Mexico at local hospitals while putting your Spanish into practice. Your daily activities include helping out in the office, acting as an observer during minor surgeries, measuring vital signs, recording general information, transferring patients, and other related activities allowing you to interact with physicians, nurses and patients. These activities will enhance your perspective of how medicine is practiced in Mexico's urban and rural communities.
These talks are given by experts in their field, and are created with the interests of the health-care professional in mind. Through these lectures, you will learn more about such topics as:
Mexico’s public health system
Health, religion and magic in indigenous communities
Health-Illness: concepts and beliefs from a cultural perspective
Visit two hospitals in the Puebla-Cholula area to learn more about public and private medical care in Mexico.
During this trip you will gain real life experience in alternative forms of medicine as practiced in the indigenous regions of Cuetzalan. You will have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to meet curanderos and folk medicine practitioners, visit health centers in rural areas, participate in a one-day traditional medicine workshop as well as collect plants and make your own traditional medical remedies!
Enjoy the wonderful cultural activities included in our program: Mexican music presentations, Folkloric ballet performances, cinema, theater plays and our famous Fiesta Mexicana!
These are optional trips offered at very affordable rates and include ground transportation, entrances fees, guides and lodging. Learn more about Mexico and expand your knowledge of Mexico’s ethnic, linguistic, cultural and geographical diversity during our weekend trips! Visit: Oaxaca, Acapulco, Taxco, Mexico City, Teotihuacan, Cuetzalan, Veracruz, Tepoztlán and Xochicalco!
