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Medical Terminology in German
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:8.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:29:09
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VC_011 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Linguistics | Target Audience: | Medicine | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Inga Reinvalde | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 16 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 32 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Proficiency level A2 of German language (according to Common European Framework of Reference for Language Learning, Teaching and Assessment). | ||||||||
| Objective: | To improve, develop and streamline students’ knowledge of German for communication, academic and professional purposes and to facilitate the acquisition of professional medical terminology for productive use. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | My studies at the RSU. Studying medicine in Latvia and Germany – duration, study content, study subjects, residency. Review of the word order in sentence, the verb in the present tense – Präsens. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Human body parts and organs, organ systems and their functions. Correct pronunciation of anatomy terminology. Comparing German terminology with Latin and Greek terminology. Terminology explanation, formation of phrases. An overview of the article and the noun, noun genders and plural, declension; compound formation. Noun gender determination after the suffix. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Movement system, organs, joints and muscles. Skeletal components, bones and muscles, their function. Overview of past tense, formation of Perfekt. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Digestive system, its functions and dysfunctions. Diet. Overview of passive verbs (Passiv), formation and use. Make a dialogue about healthy diet, guide towards proper nutrition. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Respiratory system, organs and functions of the respiratory process. Bad habits – smoking, its effects on the body, trouble with breathing. Overview of separable verbs, their application, prefix meaning, formation of separable verbs. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Cardiovascular system, organs, the main functions; small and large blood circulation circle. Formation and use of participles (Partizip I un Partizip II). Overview of compound sentences, word order in subordinate clauses. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Lymphatic system, organs and major functions. Expressions referring to body parts. Forming nouns from verbs. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Urinary system, organs, the main functions. Declension of adjectives. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Nervous system, organs, the main functions. Reflexive verbs. Prepositions with dative and accusative (Wechselpräpositionen), their use after question words "Wo?" (place) and "Wohin?" (direction). | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Anamnesis. Patient`s medical record form – personal details, complaints, pain, disease onset and course; making doctor-patient dialogues, asking about the onset and course of disease. Formation and use of the imperative mood. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Cold; disease symptoms, complaints, disease process. Cold, flu, bronchitis, tonsillitis – a comparison (the incubation period for infection, disease duration, treatment, prevention). The conversation with the patient. Formation and use of the subjunctive mood. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Hospital, departments, staff. Work schedule. Overview of number words, time ("Um wie viel Uhr?") and prepositions that indicate the time of event ("seit, ab, von, bis.") | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 13 | Medication: annotations, instructions for use, dosage form, dosage ("der Beipackzettel"), abbreviations. An overview of the use of the infinitive (Infinitiv) with/without "zu". | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 14 | Presentation. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Home assignments to acquire medicine vocabulary; compiling their own terminological glossary; presentation preparation and delivery in the field of profession. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Regular attendance of classes is compulsory (20%); Tests, group work and presentation (30%); Examination (50%). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | On completion of the course students will be able to: • recognise familiar medical terminology in different types of text; • provide either German explanation or Latvian translation of the terms; • read a text related to medicine, find and highlight key words, the main idea, the necessary information in the text; • name the parts of the body, the main organs and systems; describe diseases and their symptoms; • describe patient's condition, course of the disease; • recognise linguistic structures characteristic to scientific and popular science literature (noun formation, cases; grammatical system of the verb in the Active and Passive Voice; The Subjunctive Mood, participle and the infinitive, etc.). | ||||||||
| Skills: | On successful course completion, students will be able to: • use appropriate medical terminology interacting with patients/clients and colleagues; • make their own terminological dictionary; • ask questions related to the hospital, its departments, medical staff, patient care, basic investigations; • find information related to anamnesis, complaints and character of pain, give advice, instructions and reassure the patient. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students will be able to deliver information about themselves, their studies and compare them with medical studies in Germany; will be able to recognise patient's medical history; to perceive, write down, and deliver the necessary information related to the patient's condition; to express their ideas, to support their opinion with arguments and discuss general medical issues. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Menschen im Beruf Pflege A2 Daf. Hueber Verlag, München, 2015 | ||||||||
| 2 | Menschen im Beruf Medizin. Hueber-Verlag, 2016 | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Maie Lepp. ‘’Grammatik ist kinderleicht’’. Zvaigzne ABC, 2000 | ||||||||
| 2 | Latein für Biologen. Mediziner und Pharmezeuten. Quelle 8 Meyer-Verlag, Wiebelsheim, 2009 | ||||||||
| 3 | Karl-Heinz Schulz, Axel Helmstädter. Fachlatein Pharmazeutische und medizinische Therminologie. Govi.Verlag, 2021 | ||||||||
| 4 | Egons Ziediņš. Vācu valodas praktiskā gramatika. Zvaigzne ABC, 2009 | ||||||||
| 5 | Deutsch perfekt - ein Sprachmagazin | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | www.medizin.de | ||||||||
