German in Rehabilitation (VC_041)
About Study Course
Learning outcomes
1.After the course completion students will be able to:
• recognise familiar medical terminology in different types of text,
• provide either German explanation or Latvian translation of the terms,
• read a text related to the professional area, find and highlight key words, the main idea, the necessary information in the text,
• name the parts of the body, the main organs and systems; describe diseases and their symptoms,
• describe patient condition, course of the illness,
• develop physiotherapy treatment plan and give advice, instructions,
• recognise linguistic structures characteristic to scientific and popular science literature (noun formation, cases; grammatical system of the verb in the Active and Passive Voice; The Subjunctive Mood, participle and the infinitive, etc.).
1.After successful course complition students will be able to:
• use appropriate medical terminology interacting with patients/clients and colleagues,
• make their own termininological dictionary,
• ask questions related to the hospital, its departments, medical staff, patient care, basic investigations,
• find information related to anamnesis, complaints and character of pain,
• develop therapeutic exercise programme, individual treatment plan,
• give advice in the course of treatment,
• explain various relaxation techniques.
1.Students will be able to deliver information about themselves, their studies and compare them with medical studies in Germany; will be able to recognise patient's medical history; to perceive, write down, and deliver the necessary information related to patient condition; to express their ideas, to support their opinion with arguments and discuss various physiotherapeutic methods.
