Spanish for healthcare 2026

Dates

→ June Course:   1-26 June, 2026

→ July Course:    June 29 to July 24,  2026

Duration: The full course lasts four weeks (80 hours). A three-week course is also available (60 hours)

Schedule: 4 hours of lessons/day (20 hours/week) Monday to Friday. Preferably in the mornings.

Levels:B1(Intermediate), B2 (Advanced)   

Course description.  The course is designed for students of level B1 and upwards who need to function in the health sector. Teaching and learning will take place both in classrooms at the Language Center and in more practical classroom situations at the Faculty of Nursing in the University of Valladolid. Classroom activities will involve working with actual situations, adopting a communicative approach and a task-oriented methodology, setting out real-life and actual healthcare scenarios. Particular attention will be paid to learning specific health-related terminology in real practical contexts, focusing special attention on cultural aspects. The program includes classes in grammar that complete the language training of participants. Work will be done on practicing the four oral and written expression and compression skills.

Students will be given the opportunity to familiarize themselves with practical healthcare situations in the Spanish healthcare system, involving close-hand observations in specially prepared rooms.

Goals:

 At the end of the course, students will be able to: 

• Understand all topics related to the Spanish healthcare system.
• Produce and understand oral messages in real situations in a healthcare context.
•  Understand and produce written texts in a healthcare context.
• Summarize and communicate the content of texts involving specific terms in the field of healthcare in both the academic texts as well as texts for scientific dissemination.

You may consult the program of the practical lessons HERE

This program will be complemented by socio-cultural activities and trips outside of the normal class schedule and included in the cost of the course).

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Professional Content

• Public Healthcare in Spain: information for users.
• Prevention campaigns.
• Family planning.
• Emergency teams: out-of-hospital care.
• Medical treatments.
• Hospital services: information for the patient.
• Health issues in developing countries.
• Research against infectious diseases.

Functional Content

• Introducing oneself.
• Describing people, moods, and states of health.
• Talking about healthy habits.
• Influencing the interlocutor: scheduling an appointment, calling in a patient, requesting information, and giving advice.
• Expressing obligation and necessity.
• Expressing pain and other physical sensations.
• Describing past events and actions.
• Making conjectures about a disease or a patient’s situation.
• Expressing opinions and assessments related to health and real situations.
• Expressing the purpose of a treatment.
• Summarizing a conversation, commenting on events, and conveying messages.
• Expressing contrast and opposition regarding a diagnosis.
• Talking about events occurring at different times.

Lexical Content

• Health and well-being at home, at work, and during leisure time.
• Family medicine, nursing consultation, medications.
• The Spanish healthcare system: public and private medicine.
• Common diseases: symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
• Research and laboratory work.
• Injuries, burns, and heart diseases.
• Pregnancy and childbirth, neonatology and pediatrics.
• Allergology, ophthalmology, and dermatology.
• Nursing care.
• Surgery, anesthesia, and radiology.
• Malaria, tuberculosis, sleeping sickness, and AIDS.
• Flu, pneumonia, and hepatitis.

Methodology
Throughout this course, we will work on these topics using a variety of materials, supplemented with audios, videos, and both specialized and public-interest articles that will expand upon the content. The classes are designed to be dynamic, including various communicative activities that allow students to practice all language skills and to use the necessary lexical, grammatical, and functional resources for effective communication.
Theoretical classes are complemented by several hours of simulated practice, which will take place at the Faculty of Nursing.

SIMULATED PRACTICE (10 hours)
Assessing to what extent an individual’s physiological needs are at an optimal health level is part of nursing work.
In the 10 hours of practical training included in this course, students will be able to identify appropriate nursing care for a patient with active upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) and will learn to perform two important procedures in simulation: peripheral venous catheterization and nasogastric intubation.
In addition, using the full-body computerized adult patient simulator (SimManG3), they will be expected to solve a real clinical case—an exacerbation in a patient with COPD.

Cost:

• Complete course - 4 weeks:  1.080 €
• 3-week course: 840 €
• 2-week course: 580 €

This price includes:

• Inscription
• Tuition
• Practical lessons
• Full day trips on Saturdays (2 trips in the 4-week program and 1 trips in the 3-week program)
• Cultural activities and workshops at the Language Center
• Cultural visits to museums
• Student card
• Free Wi-Fi access in the campus facilities
• Certificate of assistance
• Closing ceremony 

Level test: Participants must take an Online level test before the start of the course. The Centre shall provide the access information.

Orientation session: Students participate in an orientation session and a guided tour of the city on the first day of the course.

Evaluation and certification
Group projects (20%)
Homework (5%)
Practical written work (5%)
Practical oral work (5%)
Oral presentation of assignments (15%)
Written exam (25%)
Practical work in the simulation room (25%)

At the end of the course, students will be awarded a certificate of attendance. In order to be awarded this certificate, students must attend 80% of the lessons.

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