Bridging Medicine, Spanish, and Culture
Communicative Language for Healthcare Workers
February 21st - March 6th - 2027
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Build Cultural Competency for Better Patient Care
Strengthen your ability to provide culturally sensitive, human-centered healthcare by engaging directly with local communities and understanding diverse perspectives on health, healing, and wellbeing. -
Explore Traditional Maya Healing Practices
Gain unique exposure to ancestral medicine through visits with traditional healers, midwives, medicinal plant experts, and community practitioners, discovering how traditional and Western healthcare coexist. -
Learn Medical Spanish in Real Clinical Contexts
Develop practical communication skills through case-based learning, patient interviews, role plays, and shadowing experiences with healthcare professionals in a rural Mexican community.
What’s included
✓ Pre-arrival and post-program online learning sessions
✓ Medical Spanish classes focused on clinical communication and patient interaction
✓ Shadowing experiences with local healthcare professionals
✓ Visits with traditional Maya healers and midwives
✓ Maya medicinal plant and traditional medicine workshops
✓ Cultural competency and intercultural healthcare training
✓ Community-based health and cultural immersion experiences
✓ Cenote and nature experiences
✓ Welcome dinner and graduation ceremony
✓ Certificate of completion
*We also offer exclusive options for those arriving earlier, just reach out to mas@naatikmexico.org!
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Pre-Arrival (5 hours online)
Medical Spanish foundations (terminology, patient interaction)
Cultural competency basics
On-Site Immersion (14 hours + experiences)
Monday – Arrival & Cultural Introduction
Orientation -Introduction to community health in Mexico
2-hour Medical Spanish class
1 hour Medical Spanish class
Mural tour
Welcome dinner
Tuesday – Clinical Communication & Wellness
4-hour class (patient interviews, symptoms, ethics)
Spiritual massage & traditional cleansing ceremony with local healers Aniceto and Linda
Wednesday – Real-World Exposure in communities
Morning: Shadowing experience with local physician
Afternoon: Visit to traditional midwives
Thursday – Language & Nature
4-hour class (case-based learning, role play)
Cenote experience
Friday – Integration & Reflection
3-hour class (review + practical simulations)
Graduation ceremony
Visit to Maya medicinal workshop-Raxalaj
Post-Program (5 hours online)
Reflection session
Case discussions
Language reinforcement
Integration of intercultural learning into clinical practice
This itinerary is subject to change and is intended as reflection of the types of activities you can expect to enjoy. Some activities may take place on different days or be replaced with similar events . We will alter the itinerary to ensure that you can experience local events and activities once they are announced.
Price 2026
$1,399 per person (1 week)
$2,435 per person (2 weeks)
Exclusive Transfer Offer for Groups of 5+ Participants
$75 USD from Cancun Airport
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Pre-Arrival (5 hours online)
Medical Spanish foundations (terminology, patient interaction)
Cultural competency basics
On-Site Immersion (23 hours + experiences)
Week 1
Monday – Arrival & Cultural Introduction
Orientation -Introduction to community health in Mexico
2 hour Medical Spanish class
Lunch
2 hour Medical Spanish class
Mural tour
Welcome dinner
Tuesday – Clinical Communication & Wellness
4-hour class (patient interviews, symptoms, ethics)
Spiritual massage & traditional cleansing ceremony with local healers Aniceto and Linda
Wednesday – Real-World Exposure
Morning: Shadowing experience with local physician
Afternoon: Visit to traditional midwives
Thursday – Language & Nature
4-hour class (case-based learning, role play)
Visit to Maya medicinal workshop-Raxalaj
Friday – Integration & Reflection
Bacalar excursion
Saturday-
Visit to lagoon
Week 2
Monday – Language and Nature
4-hour Medical Spanish class
Visit the stingless bee apiary
Tuesday – Ancestral Practices
Ancestral medicine in Tihousuco all day, visit to museum, church, workshop and lunch included
Wednesday – Real-World Exposure
Morning: Shadowing experience with local physician
Afternoon-Round table with Spanish teacher
Thursday – Language & Nature
4-hour class
Cenote
Friday – Integration & Reflection
3 hour class
30 min reflection of program
Graduation
Post-Program (5 hours online)
Reflection session
Case discussions
Language reinforcement
Integration of intercultural learning into clinical practice