Course: English for Faculty of Health Care Studies 3

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Course title English for Faculty of Health Care Studies 3
Course code UJP/AFZS3
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Hohlová Jana, Mgr.
Course content
1. Admission by A/E 2. Admission by referral 3. Obstetrics 4. Pharmacology 5. Ophtalmology 6. Revision. Mid-term test 7. Onkology 8. Gastroenterology 9. Revision. Preparation for the credit test 10. Credit test

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • Preparation for formative assessments (2-20) - 16 hours per semester
  • Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40) - 32 hours per semester
  • Presentation preparation (report) (1-10) - 10 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 20 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
Students can describe parts of the human body, its internal organs and functions.
Students can form questions using all types of verbs.
Students can differentiate the functions of grammar tenses when expressing their ideas.
Students have B1/B2 language competence according to CEFR.
Students can describe patients´s problems, such as pain, digestive and breathing problems,emergencies, etc.
Skills
Students are able to communicate in common healthcare situations.
Students are able to obtain patients´ personal details and their present and former symptoms; provide important information and make appointments over the phone.
Students are able to express their politeness, concern and empathy.
Students are able to work with patients´ medical records and fill in their cards.
Students can read common texts from their field of study.
Students can describe patients´s problems, such as pain, digestive and breathing problems,emergencies, etc.
Competences
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
Students know individual types and forms of drugs, methods of application, dosages and possible side effects.
Students can describe pregnancy and birth and possible related complications.
Students can describe the eye and its function, and possible complications.
Students can describe the skin and its derivatives, and related illnesses.
Students can characterize the development of a malignant disease and methods of treatment.
Students can specify the function of the digestive tracts and related illnesses.
Students can use shift in tense when narrating past events.
Students can use model verbs correctly when giving advice or describing possibilities.
Students can classify the types of noun determination and use articles correctly.
Students can explain relations when talking about the cause and the result.
Students can describe situations leading to emergency or planned admissions.
Skills
Students are able to communicate with a patient during an urgent or planned admission.
Provide advice and support when dealing with a pregnant patient.
Students can calculate and express mathematically the dosage of a drug.
Students can support and provide nursing care to patients with eye disease.
Students can support and provide nursing care to patients with skin disease.
Students can support and provide nursing care to patients with cancer.
Students can work with patients suffering from gastrointestinal conditions.
Students can use euphemisms when describing physical conditions and problems.
Student can impart a bad news in a sensitive way and support the patients.
Students can express the degree of level when describing/assessing a problem.
Competences
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Textual studies
Practicum
Discussion
Skills
Practicum
Discussion
Collaborative instruction
Competences
Practicum
Textual studies
Discussion
assessment methods
Knowledge
Test
Skills demonstration during practicum
Portfolio
Skills
Test
Skills demonstration during practicum
Portfolio
Competences
Test
Skills demonstration during practicum
Portfolio
Recommended literature
  • Glendinning, E.H., Howard, R. Professional English in Use: Medicine. Cambridge, 2007. ISBN 978-0-521-68201-5.
  • Grice, T., Greenan, J. Nursing 2. Oxford, 2008. ISBN 9780194569880.
  • Grice, T. Nursing 1. Oxford, 2007. ISBN 9780194569774.
  • Harrison, A. Flash on English for Nursing. Recanati, 2016. ISBN 978-88-536-2177-1.
  • McCarter, S. Oxford English for Careers: Medicine 1, 2. Oxford: OUP, 2009. ISBN 9780194023009.
  • Topilová, Věra. Anglicko-český česko-anglický lékařský slovník. Praha: Grada, 1999. ISBN 80-7169-284-0.
  • Zimmer, G. et al. HELP Healthcare English Language Programme. Olomouc, 2017. ISBN 978-80-244-5143-5.


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