Medical English III is a compulsory course in the third year of the study of Medicine in English. It includes 20 hours of seminars (1 ECTS).
The aim of the course is to assist the students in improving their communicative competence and developing academic writing skills. Active participation in classes, completion of written assignments and preparation of a seminar paper will contribute to the improvement of language fluency and writing skills and develop the ability to find, summarize, write and present data and information.
Course content: Critical reading of medical texts with accompanying reading comprehension exercises at an advanced level, which will serve as a starting point for improving vocabulary relevant to the development of communication competence and key grammatical structures and spelling specificities of American and British English; writing a seminar paper; individual work, pair work. Students' progress is continuously monitored through short quizzes and a final test. Students will receive constructive individual and group feedback on their progress. The course is considered passed after submitting the seminar paper (which must be submitted no later than the last week of classes in which the course takes place) and passing the final test.
Learning outcomes:
• understand professional and scientific texts, identify key ideas and specific information
• distinguish and apply different language registers (formal/informal expression)
• recognize grammatical and lexical structures typical of medical language in speech and writing
• spot grammatically and orthographically incorrect parts of sentences and be able to offer the correct
solution
• apply the rules of British and American spelling
• apply grammatical and lexical structures typical of medical language in writing
Course structure:
The course is organized through 20 hours of seminars. It is distributed continuously for 10 weeks. The course is based on the students’ active participation in the seminars, written assignments, and the final test.