Built by people who know what it's like to cross the language gap.

In 2014, our founder arrived in Barcelona. Within months, a serious hospitalization put her in the hands of a Spanish medical team — and it was the young doctors treating her, brilliant, dedicated, and eager to work internationally, who kept asking her for English lessons between rounds. She started teaching from her hospital bed, handing out paper business cards to doctors who wanted to practice conversation.

Between 2015 and 2017, while teaching English as an auxiliar in Santa Teresa and learning Catalan herself, she began to understand — from the inside, as a learner rather than just a teacher — why adult Spanish speakers struggle with English pronunciation. That perspective shaped everything that came next.

By 2017, bedside lessons and classroom insight had grown into structured, ongoing work with doctors and clinical teams across Barcelona. Generic language apps weren't the answer. Private tutors weren't scalable. And the people who needed it most — residents between night shifts, attendings between operating days — had no time for either.

Medicidiom is still built on that original belief: that language coaching designed specifically for clinicians, shaped by a learner's own experience, can turn medical English from a barrier into a strength.