Welcome UCF Medical Students to Medical Spanish with Common Ground!
Use this page as your main hub on the Common Ground International website for your summer medical Spanish course.
Important Course Contacts and Links:
- Summer ’25 Course Syllabus: Download Here
- UCF Course Director: Analia Castiglioni, M.D.
- UCF Course Coordinator: Brenda Perez
- Course Instructors:
- Beginning Medical Spanish: Alexandra MacPhee
- Intermediate Medical Spanish: Johanna Dima
- Advanced Medical Spanish: Andrea Giganti Dima
- Online Course Content Director: Rory Foster
- Online Course Webmaster for login and technical difficulties: David Riveroll
Orientation class replay 6/2/25:
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Online course tips:
- Check the calendar in your course syllabus and be sure to view each of the online lessons to be covered in your live class before the live class!
- Spend at least 30 minutes 3 times a week working on building your medical Spanish terminology in addition to the lessons that you view online.
- Common Ground has built Quizlet sets to help you organize and study medical terminology. Use the various games and study modes that Quizlet offers to master this vocabulary for your clinical conversations. Common Ground International’s Quizlet Library: Beginning MMS, Intermediate MMS, Advanced MMS
Additional Medical Spanish Resources and opportunities:
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