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English for Midwives
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:7.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:30:29
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VC_045 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Linguistics | Target Audience: | Midwifery | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Zita Goldšmite | ||||||||
| 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 of English at the level of secondary school programme | ||||||||
| Objective: | To improve the English language skills for academic and professional purposes and to promote the acquisition and professional use of medical terminology. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | The course "English for Midwives" overview. Academic English: Presentations: structure, signposting language, audio-visual aids. Group presentations. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Education necessary to become a midwife. Occupational standard for midwifery in Latvia and the United Kingdom. Basic skills, competences and areas of responsibility for a midwife. Rules and standards. The Code. Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses and midwives in the UK. Reading strategies: scanning and skimming; headings and sub-headings; diagrams, pictures and captions. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | A job profile of a midwife and/or health visitor. Academic English: Summaries | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Hospitals. Types and specialisation of hospitals. Hospital departments / units and staff. A hospital ward. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Equipment and instruments in a hospital. Instruments used in obstetrics and gynaecology. One sentence description of each instrument. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Hospital admissions. Patients' complaints. A medical case history. Filling in forms. Direct and indirect questions. A summary about the patient, using the information from the patient record. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Male and female reproductive system. Fertility and conception. Communication with a patient. Simple medical procedures and their explanation to the patient. Getting the patient's informed consent. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Pregnancy: symptoms and signs. Antenatal appointments with the obstetrician/midwife. Checks and tests at antenatal appointments. Modal verbs. Giving advice. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Antenatal notes and other documents. Antenatal team. Stages of pregnancy stages and development of foetus. Verbs used to describe pregnancy and childbirth. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Possible problems during pregnancy. Group work: to search for the information and study the causes for HIV, Spina Bifida, Syphilis and Toxoplasmosis and research how they affect the foetus or the new-born. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Labour. Signs of labour. Pain: types of pain and its location. Special cases. Lay words and medical terminology used to describe the same problems. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Postnatal care. The baby’s appearance and health. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Students prepare individual and group presentations on professional issues; they do project work searching for information on Internet and presenting the findings to the class; the students do written tasks (a profile, an e-mail, a summary, etc.); they read authentic professional texts; the students add professional terms to the existing professional glossary and acquire the professional terminology. Students are obliged to fill in the course evaluation questionnaire at the end of the course. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | 1) Active participation in classes; all assignments prepared appropriately and in a timely manner; short vocabulary tests and presentations made in accordance with the topics covered during the course - 40%. The grade will be lowered in case of assignment submission after the deadline. 2) A presentation on a professional topic demonstrating the ability to use professional terminology – 30% 3) The end-of-course examination: a test on the use and comprehension of medical terminology (gap filling exercises; definition and terminology matching exercises), a text related to medicine and comprehension tasks - 30%. The students who have actively participated in the classes, submitted all the course assignments on time and in good quality and given the presentation will be offered cumulative assessment. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | On successful completion of the course the students will be able to: • recognise and explain in English or translate into Latvian medical terminology connected with core competences and skills of midwives, the female reproductive system, prenatal development, labour and childbirth, maternal and new-born health and maternity care; • read specialist texts, answer questions related to the texts and give a brief summary. | ||||||||
| Skills: | On successful completion of the course the students will be able to: • use the relevant medical terminology when speaking about professional issues; • prepare and give presentations on professional issues covered during the course; • speak about pregnancy, antenatal development, labour, birth and postnatal period; • obtain the necessary information from the patient/client concerning their health. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | The students will be able to use English efficiently when speaking about professional issues with other health professionals and patients; they will be able to make presentations on the issues related to their professional sphere; they will be able to work as a team with other colleagues using English as their communication tool. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Tony Grice. Oxford English for Careers. Nursing 1, OUP, 2007. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 2 | 2. The Pregnancy Book. The Department of Health. 2023. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Virginia Allum and Patricia McGarr. Cambridge English for Nursing. CUP, 2008. | ||||||||
| 2 | Tony Grice and James Greenam. Oxford English for Careers. Nursing 2, 2008. | ||||||||
| 3 | Nancy Kohner, Angela Phillips, Karen Ford, June Thompson, Mary Robinson, Gillian Sturgess. Birth to Five. Department of Health, 2007. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | http://www.collinsdictionary.com | ||||||||
| 2 | http://meriam-webster.com | ||||||||
| 3 | www.nmc-uk.org | ||||||||
