The Professora, Maria Victoria Abad Rabat, was an excellent teacher (with a lovely madrileño accent), and the content of the course will be very useful to me for my part-time medical interpreting. I highly recommend this course.

Um curso didático, com uma excelente professora, com assuntos muito relevantes e úteis no contexto médico e que te inspira a estudar para sempre dar o seu melhor para o paciente. Foi incrível essa experiência. Recomendo a todos.

Seamless mixture of language learning with the conversational concepts that any medical professional might need. I feel like I learned more than just Spanish - I learned how to contextualize my study of grammar and vocabulary.

challenging material, good explanations and great recordings of "authentic" discussions. if you put in the time you will see the benefits. thank you for a great resource :-)

It was a great experience, thank you very much indeed. The course has provided me with numerous insights and useful ideas which I will apply in my professional activities.

Dear Mrs. Abad, I truly enjoyed the course, the videos and the activities of the course were informative, practical, and well structured.

I appreciate your time.

Maria.

Excellent overview of using Spanish in Healthcare Settings. The real audio examples were very helpful. You will need some background in Spanish (intermediate).

Muy buen curso, te da la realidad actual con el contexto que estamos llevando y eso te ayuda a canalizar mejor todo el aprendizaje.

This course was amazing, and I really learned so much. I would love to see more advanced language courses.

This course gives a good overview of medical-specific Spanish words (such as laboratory tests), and variations in vocabulary to ensure understanding and a feeling of respect between the doctor and patient depending on different factors (patient's age, unfamiliarity with professional medical terms, etc.)

I was surprised by some of the examples of "friendly" versus "cold" doctor behavior...as a then-young, "ethnic" female doing customer service for patients with varying degrees of emotional trauma or chronic illnesses in my particular workplace, even smiling at a patient would sometimes result in an undesired reaction from my boss, the patient or patient's spouse! Direct, brief communication like the "cold" doctor was more likely to be appreciated as professional while even respectful friendliness was often interpreted as flirtatiousness, evasiveness, condescension, or lack of respect for the patient's time and attention span. This seems to be a cultural variation so I would apply this course's recommendations with caution depending on your own work environment.

A second thing that I noticed was that there were no quiz answers to review after questions are marked wrong. At times I was able to review the lesson and correct my error, but for a few questions I am still unsure of what the correct response was. This may be because I need more practice in Spanish outside of this course which is intermediate level.

In conclusion, I think anyone who is somewhat fluent in Spanish and has a need for healthcare will find this course straightforward and helpful. It's also great that you can pay for the certificate at the end of the course when you're sure you've passed :)

Goes into the nuances of communicating with patients and colleagues in a healthcare setting, such as taking account into patient age, cultural background, psychosocial concerns, etc. Overall I enjoyed the course. The instructor spoke very clearly for a beginner Spanish learner like me. I did not give it five stars because I would have liked more focus on the medical vocabularies and dialogues rather than so much focus on the application in social/cultural context. This may only be because those are similar to how it is in the healthcare setting in America using the English language, but I could see how that may be helpful for learners who have had less exposure to the healthcare setting in a similar culture. Overall, I would recommend the course to others, as I did learn plenty from it. It was challenging for a beginner Spanish learner like me, but the subtitles and transcripts helped so much!

I thought this course was very well organized and I learned a lot from it. My one complaint is that the quality of the audio recordings of the doctor-patient interactions was generally poor.

The course is good. There is a lot of information given. I would have preferred smaller pieces of information and maybe some links to some practice exercises on the grammar points.

i cant even unenroll from a course

This course was great! The professor was awesome and did a great job of making the course as interactive as possible even though it was a self paced course.

It is an excellent course I would recommend it to everyone in the medical field who is working or will be working in a Spanish-speaking country.

This course is really helpful to those who has previous knowledge of Spanish and wants to learn how to use the language in healthcare settings.

One of the best online classes! The material is challenging and fun. I am so excited to put into practice everything I learned in this class!

If your Spanish is good and you have an academic background, then you probably won't learn much. But the course is good.

Overall a very well structured course. The knowledge I have acquired will be valuable in my future endeavors.

Todo es perfecto. Muchísimas gracias profesora. Aprendi muchas cosas sobre la medicina y terminología. :)

I really liked the instructor and her handouts. I can go back to the handouts every time I need them.

Really helpful, especially the real recordings of doctor-patient interactions.

Great course for the intermediate Spanish speaker, would highly recommend.

Love this course, I learned so much even though I already knew Spanish!