Mexican Language and Culture Programs
for Health Care Professionals

• For nurses, nurse practitioners, nurse-midwives and other health care providers and their    spouses/partners
• Intensive immersion language training in Querétaro, Mexico
• 1-3 weeks duration, with individual extension possible
• Go as an individual, or with a group
• Housing and meals with a carefully chosen Mexican family
• Visits to local medical facilities
• Round tables with Mexican health care providers, political scientists and anthropologists
• Excursions to villages and Mexico City [on programs longer than 10 days]
• Pre departure orientation materials and program specific handbook
• "Extras" - salsa lessons, cooking classes with a master chef, birding, pottery, music and an illustrated    demonstration of the uses of the maguey plant.

Comments from past participants:

"I am extremely pleased with my experience and would gladly do it all again."
      - Barbara Kaye, Certified Nurse-Midwife,
         Cottage Grove, OR

"The field trips, speakers, hospital tours and weekend trips were wonderful, colorful and educational."
      - Valerie Schuelke, Registered Nurse, Eugene, OR

"One of our Mexican colleagues talked with us about the Mexican health system and personally escorted us through three different types of hospitals. Everywhere we were treated with the utmost respect and courtesy, not to mention pervasive Mexican friendliness."
      - Dr. Dennis Schuelke, M.D., Eugene, OR

"I am extremely grateful to have had such a marvelous opportunity as this and hope to repeat it at some future time."
      - Dr. George Waldman, M.D.,
        OMA Past President, Madras, OR