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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:2 / 3
Course supervisor:Inga Kaija
Study type:Full time
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Medicine
Language:English
Branch of science:Linguistics

Objective

To learn commonly used vocabulary and deepen conversation skills necessary to interview a patient efficiently: complaints and diseases, affecting factors, lifestyle; sentence building.

Prerequisites

Having completed one elective Latvian course or the 5th semester's mandatory course in Latvian.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

On successful completion of the course students will be able to use vocabulary describing symptoms and their progress as well as list factors that affect one's health.

Skills

On successful completion of the course students will be able to formulate questions in Latvian about various aspects of symptoms and grasp the point of the answer.

Competence

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 in detail.

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2024, Autumn semester
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Planning period:Year 2025, Spring semester
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Medicine, SSNMFz9Master’sLimited choiceInga Laizāne