Course Description
There are currently two streams offered within the course ELTU2016 English for Medicine I (Excluding MBChB Programme) this year.
Stream A – Nursing and Gerontology
This stream is designed to develop oracy (i.e. listening and speaking competence) in English of second-year nursing students and second-year gerontology students from The Nethersole School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine. It aims to prepare these students to engage in a range of professional interactions with members of the public (e.g. taking a patient case history, explaining and exchanging information in lay terms etc.), to understand the structure and linguistic features of both spoken and written texts for clinical communication (e.g. a health assessment and a research presentation), and to acquire strategies to understand medical terminology in the contexts of nursing and gerontology.
Stream B – Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
This stream is designed to develop both written and spoken communicative competence of second-year students from the School of Pharmacy and second-year students from the School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine. It aims to develop in these students the ability to understand the organisation and linguistic features of the background (e.g. literature review) and significance (i.e. the “gap”) of a research and an academic presentation. It also aims to help students acquire relevant strategies to understand and use medical terminology in the contexts of pharmacy/pharmacology and biomedical sciences.
Advisory: For Year 2 students of Faculty of Medicine only.