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Medical Terminology in English
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:30:56
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VC_059 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Linguistics | Target Audience: | Medical Technologies | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Miervaldis Karulis | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 16 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 32 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Knowledge and skills of the English language at secondary school level. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To develop students’ communication skills for use in academic and professional settings and to facilitate the acquisition of professional terminology for productive use. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction into Medical Engineering. Historical overview of Medicine and Medical Technologies. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Principles and usage of medical terminology in English. The Latin and Greek languages in Medicine. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | The general structure of the human body, general characteristics of organ systems and organs: functions, structure and physiological processes. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Introduction into Biomechanics. Support and movement systems. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | The functions, structure and physiology of the cardiovascular system. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | The functions, structure and physiology of the respiratory system. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | The functions, structure and physioloģy of the nervous system. Sense organs. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Health care systems, characteristics of medical branches and medical specialties. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | General characteristics of modern medical technologies, the principles of their usage in different medical branches. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Diagnostic and visualisation technologies in Medicine. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | The usage of medical technologies in therapy and rehabilitation (surgery, nanotechnologies, prosthetics et al.). | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Individual, pair and group work – preparing presentations on one of the course topics, work with monolingual dictionaries – explaining terms; writing summaries, referrals, searching for information in data bases according to the given principles. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | • active and creative participation in classes; written homework – qualitative, submitted in due time, the quality of oral answers; • preparing and delivering reports on the topics of the course; • tests – checking terminology acquisition and its practical application; • at the end of the course – written and oral (a presentation and discussion) examination when the practical use of professional English language in Medicine is checked (speaking skill at comprehension level); • evaluation is accumulative; the percentage is used; for the final evaluation of the course the percentage of the examination result – 40% and the results of study work (tests, independent work, reports) – 60% are taken into account. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | On successful completion of the course, students will be able to: • recognize professional terminology in different types of texts; • recall professional terminology related to the field of medicine; • describe different phenomena in the field of medicine using professional terminology in English. | ||||||||
| Skills: | On successful completion of the course, students will be able to: • select and use appropriate terminology in English for speaking (delivering presentations, discussions) and writing in the medical field; • use appropriate language devices to share one’s ideas both in written and spoken language; • summarize the information from any kind of source in written and spoken language using relevant terminology in English; • retell the general idea and specific information in different kinds of texts from varied types of sources. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | On successful completion of the course, students will be able to apply practically the acquired terminology in different communicative situations, further studies and professional development. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | E. H. Glendinning, Professional English in Use – Medicine, Cambridge, CUP, 2007 (akceptējams izdevums/approved publication) | ||||||||
| 2 | E. Martin, Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007 (akceptējams izdevums/approved publication) | ||||||||
| 3 | E. Alison Pohl, Test Your Professional English: Medical PE. 2003 (akceptējams izdevums/approved publication) | ||||||||
| 4 | P. Fitzgerald, M. McCullagh, R. Wright, English for Medicine in Higher Education Studies, Course Book, Garnet Education, 2010 (akceptējams izdevums/approved publication) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | J. Easwood, Oxford Practice Grammar, Intermediate, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006 | ||||||||
| 2 | D.-E.Chabner, The Language of Medicine, 10th edition, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 2011 | ||||||||
| 3 | T. M. Buzug, Advances in Medical Engineering, Springer, 2007 | ||||||||
| 4 | R. Rushmer, Medical Engineering: Projections for Health Care Delivery, Elsvier Science, 2012 | ||||||||
| 5 | J. Webster, Medical Instrumentation: Application and Design, 3rd Ed., Wiley India Pvt. Limited, 2009 | ||||||||
| 6 | M. M. Domach, Introduction to Biomedical Engineering, Pearson Education India | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | www.medicinenet.com/ | ||||||||
| 2 | www.naturalnews.com/medicine.html | ||||||||
| 3 | www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pmresources.html | ||||||||
