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Latvian Conversation in a Medical Setting for International Students - Level 3
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:2.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:29:06
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VC_154 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Linguistics | Target Audience: | Medicine | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Inga Kaija | ||||||||
| 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) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 16 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.2 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 16 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Having completed a) two elective Latvian courses; or b) one elective Latvian course and the 5th semester's mandatory course in Latvian. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To learn topical vocabulary and deepen conversation skills necessary to interview a patient efficiently: family anamnesis, examinations, orders and recommendations to a patient; grammatically precise speech. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Review: patient's complaints, describing them | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Family anamnesis, using present and past forms | Classes | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Common examinations, referrals | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Test – conversation with a patient | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Review: collecting patient's anamnesis | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Orders to the patient during examination, imperative | Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Recommendations to the patient after setting diagnosis: "need" and debitive | Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Test – conversation with a patient | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Individual work – memorizing listed vocabulary of the corresponding topic. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | At the end of each semester – an oral test on the topics covered during the semester: a conversation with a patient according to a given pattern. The final grade consists of the 1st-semester test results (50%) and 2nd-semester exam results (50%). At the end of the course, every student must fill the course evaluation survey. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | On successful completion of the course students will be able to use lexical and grammatical means of language to collect anamnesis and instruct patients. | ||||||||
| Skills: | On successful completion of the course students will be able to formulate questions in Latvian about family anamnesis and grasp the point of the answer, as well as give orders to the patient. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | On successful completion of the course students will be able to use the skills they gained in their previous Latvian courses to interview patients about their complaints and anamnesis in detail, as well as to inform patients about the treatment plan. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | I. Kaija, I. Laizāne. Latviešu valodas gramatika. Pamatlīmenis: A1. Mācību līdzeklis gramatikas apguvei angļu valodā runājošajiem. = Grammar of the Latvian Language. Elementary: A1. Teaching aid in grammar for the speakers of English. Rīga : Latviešu valodas aģentūra, 2022. 296 lpp. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Styrerud, Martin. The English Translator. Student Manual English-Latvian. Norway: Norfox Medical, 2018. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Medical dictionary and phrasebook for Android | ||||||||
| 2 | Medical dictionary and phrasebook for iPhone | ||||||||
