ENGLISH I FOR MEDICINE

ENGLISH I ΓIA THN IATRIKH

ENGLISH I FOR MEDICINE

COURSE CODEΞΓ 0105

COURSE INSTRUCTORBATSILA MARIANTHI

CO-INSTRUCTORS 

ECTS:2.00

COURSE TYPE

YP | Foreign Language

TEACHING SEMESTER1st SEMESTER

WEEKLY TEACHING HOURS:4 HOURS

Total Time (Teaching Hours + Student Workload)61 HOURS

PREREQUIRED COURSES:

NO

LANGUAGE OF TEACHING AND EXAMSEnglish and Greek

AVAILABLE TO ERASMUS STUDENTSYes (In English)

SEMESTER LECTURES:DETAILS/LECTURES

TEACHING AND LEARNING METHODS :

LECTURES, INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES, GROUP WORK, PAIR WORK , FLIPPED CLASSROOM S

Power point

e-class tools

exploitation of medical webpages


STUDENT EVALUATION

Semester assignment (30%)

Two mid semester written tests (70%)


Objective Objectives/Desired Results:

Upon successful completion of the course, students will have acquired:

− Familiarity with medical texts in the English Language and relevant terms.

− Ability to use the medical terms they learn in written and spoken language.

General skills

o Communication in a second language other than the mother tongue

o Independent work

o Teamwork

o Free, creative and inductive thinking

o Searching, processing and analyzing information using the necessary technologies

 
Course URL : 

Course Description:

Unit 1

Understanding written language in medical science

Unit 2

Writing scientific texts in medical science

Unit 3

Listening comprehension of English in medical science

Unit 4

Using English to communicate in case studies of medical issues

Specifically:

  • Introduction to Medical Terminology
  • Prefixes – Suffixes – Word roots/Combining forms
  • The History of Medicine
  • Basic Hospital Vocabulary
  • Hospital Departments – Hospital Staff – Instruments and Equipment
  • Types of Diseases
  • The Language of the body parts
  • The Language of Anatomy
  • The Language of Health Care
  • Hospital procedures
  • Admissions
  • Physical examination
  • Taking care of patients
  • Safety
 
Recommended reading:

MEDICAL LANGUAGE-ΑΓΓΛΙΚΗ ΟΡΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΙΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΕΣ ΥΓΕΙΑΣ of  Susan Turley (Evdoxus code: 94646224)

ΑΓΓΛΟΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟ -ΕΛΛΗΝΟΑΓΓΛΙΚΟ ΛΕΞΙΚΟ ΤΩΝ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΩΝ ΟΡΩΝ of George Michaelides, Nelli-Vezou Magouti (Evdoxus code: 32880)

 


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