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Medical Terminology in Russian
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:6.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:30:03
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VC_078 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Linguistics | Target Audience: | Medical Services | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ludmila Jermakoviča | ||||||||
| 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 Russian language (Common European Framework of Reference for Language Learning, Teaching and Assessment). | ||||||||
| Objective: | To improve, develop and streamline students’ knowledge of Russian 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 – duration, study content, study subjects, residency. Overview of stressed and unstressed consonants and vowels, letter combination reading, affirmation and interrogation intonation. Sentence structure, question formation. Noun gender. Overview of the plural, irregular plural. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Human body parts and organs, organ system and their function. Correct pronunciation of anatomy terminology. Identifying noun number; comparing Russian terminology with Latin and Greek terminology. Terminology explanation, formation of phrases. Overview of noun declension. Use of the genitive for speaking of possession or parts of the whole. A reading task. Analytical reading; being able to identify essential, new, familiar, interesting information. Overview of numerals, ordinal numbers. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | 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. The perfective and imperfective aspects of the verb; being able to use verbs in the perfective and imperfective aspects. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Healthy lifestyle; pernicious habits. Being able to give recommendations on healthy lifestyle, to warn of the adverse effect of pernicious habits. Overview of adjective declension. Overview of verb conjugation in the present tense. The imperative mood. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Female reproductive system, organs and functions. Noun accusative case with and without prepositions ("кого?", "что?" ) – and with ("куда?" – "в, на"). | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Basic skills, competences and areas of responsibility for a midwife. Overview of reflexive verbs. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Family planning. The conversation with the patient, giving advice, recommendations. Noun locative case. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Obstetrics. Pregnancy. The development of the foetus during the pregnancy. Overview of compound sentences, that-clauses. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Labour and childbirth. Puerperium. Formation of participles. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Women and newborn health and care. The conversation with the patient, giving advice. Modality of obligation. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Hospital, maternity ward, hospital departments/units and staff. Main medical procedures. Noun instrumental case. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | 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. Students are obliged to fill in the course evaluation questionnaire at the end of the course. | ||||||||
| 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 successful completion of the course the students will: • recognise and explain or translate into Latvian medical terminology related to woman and newborn health and care; • read professional field - related texts find and mark keywords, main thoughts, necessary information; • name the parts and systems of the human body; • describe patient status, disease behaviour; • recognize popular language structures that are most specific to scientific and scientific literature (creating nouns, folding, aligning with the adjective; systematisation of the use of words in a manner to be carried out; formation of forms of desire and order expression, use of two-natures, etc.). | ||||||||
| Skills: | On successful completion of the course the students will be able to: • use the relevant medical terminology when speaking with their future patients/clients and colleagues; • explain different medical procedures (taking blood pressure, temperature, blood samples, making injections, etc.); • give advice to women about healthy lifestyle; • describe different rooms in a hospital and maternity ward/unit; • show directions in a hospital and a maternity ward; • select terms and create your own terminology dictionary; • collect a patient's medical history and inquire about complaints. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | The students will be able to talk about themselves, their studies and to compare the studies to medical studies in Russia; will be able to fill out the patients’ medical records form; understand, write down and comprehend information about the patient’s condition; formulate the questions and maintain a conversation with a patient; will be able to communicate their opinion on simple medical topics. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | А.А. Марцелли. Латинский язык и основы медицинской терминологии. Ростов-на-Дону, 2011 (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | M.Krasnais, V. Pužule, G. Silakalne. Грамматика легко и просто. Krievu valodas gramatikas rokasgrāmata; Zvaigzne ABC 2014 | ||||||||
| 2 | Krievu-latviešu vārdnīca ar skaidrojumiem un piemēriem. Zvaigzne ABC, 2005 | ||||||||
| 3 | Большой толковый медицинский словарь. 1 -2 том. Москва, 2001 | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | www.med.ru | ||||||||
| 2 | www.midwifery.ru | ||||||||
| 3 | www.akuwerstvo.ru | ||||||||
