Course: English for Health Care 4

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Course title English for Health Care 4
Course code UJP/AZ4
Organizational form of instruction Tutorial
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
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. Neurology 2. Coronary 3. Surgery, preparation, post-operative care 4. Psychiatry 5.Infectious diseases 6. Revision. Mid-term test 7. Outpatients 8. Medical ethics 9. Intercultural communication 10.Credit test

Learning activities and teaching methods
Seminar classes, Individual study, Textual studies
  • Contact hours - 20 hours per semester
  • Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40) - 32 hours per semester
  • Presentation preparation (report in a foreign language) (10-15) - 10 hours per semester
  • Preparation for formative assessments (2-20) - 16 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
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 know the principles and can use appropriate means in communication with patients.
Students know topical vocabulary covering obstetrics, pharmacology, addictions and, civilization diseases.
Students know topical vocabulary covering malignant diseases and gastrenterology.
Skills
Students are able to communicate in common healthcare situations.
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 provide information about indications and contraindications of drugs, their dosages and side effects.
Students can communicate with patients suffering from oncological, and gastroenterological condition.
They are able to use the data available from the patient history card in English.
Competences
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
Students can specify the function of the nervous system and related illnesses.
Students can specify the function of the cardiovascular system and related illnesses.
Students can describe preparation and execution of operations., post-operative care.
Students can characterize the development of a mental disease and methods of treatment.
Students know individual types of infectious diseases, treatment methods, prevention.
Students can describe how treatment is provided in outpatient departments;
Students can use the first and second conditionals.
Students know the appropriate structures for various ways of expressing future.
Students use the relative pronouns and passives correctly.
Students can differentiate the use of simple and continuous present perfect tenses.
Skills
Students can support and provide nursing care to patients with a nervous condition.
Students can support and provide nursing care to patients with a cardiovascular condition.
Students can support and provide nursing care to patients during oparations.
Students can work with patients suffering from mentall conditions.
Students can work with patients suffering from infectious diseases.
Students make appointments and deal with outpatients.
Student can correctly use the first and second conditional clauses.
Student can correctly use verb patterns.
Students are able to obtain, analyze and process patient information.
Competences
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Textual studies
Individual study
Practicum
Discussion
Skills
Practicum
Discussion
Collaborative instruction
Seminar classes
Competences
Practicum
Skills demonstration
Textual studies
Individual study
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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