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Medical Terminology in Russian
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:8.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:29:40
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VC_006 | LQF level: | All Levels | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Linguistics | Target Audience: | Medicine | ||||||
| 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: | Basic knowledge of the Russian language is required (level A2 according to 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 systems and their functions. 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 verbs. | 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 | The cardiovascular system, its organs and functions; being able to describe the pulmonary and systemic circuits. Stenocardia, its symptoms, patient's complaints, the course of the disease. Being able to take anamnesis, describe chest pain. Noun accusative case with and without prepositions. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | The respiratory system, its organs and functions. Being able to describe the process of breathing. Bronchitis, its symptoms, patient's complaints, the course of the disease; being able to take anamnesis. Conversation with a patient. Overview of reflexive verbs. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | The digestive system, its organs and functions; being able to describe the process of digestion. Gastritis, its symptoms, patient's complaints, the course of the disease; being able to take anamnesis. Conversation with a patient. Healthy nutrition; being able to give recommendations on healthy nutrition. Noun locative case. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Liver diseases. Hepatitis, its symptoms, patient's complaints, the course of the disease, prevention. Being able to take anamnesis, to give recommendations. Conversation with a patient. Overview of compound sentences, that-clauses. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | The urinary system, its organs and functions. Nephritis, its symptoms, patient's complaints, the course of the disease. Being able to take anamnesis, to give recommendations. Formation of participles. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Instructions. Methods of investigation; being able to describe major investigation methods. Noun instrumental case. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Medication; annotation of medication, instruction for use, medication types. Knowledge of abbreviations, being able to give instructions on medication use and dosage. Modality of obligation. | 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: | The course final assessment is cumulative, consisting of the exam result (50%), active participation in seminars including those given distantly, qualitatively done homework assignments, 2 tests (30%), and a presentation (20%). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | On successful completion of the course students will be able to: • recognise familiar medical terminology in different types of text; • to provide either Russian explanation or Latvian translation of the terms; • to read a text related to medicine, find and highlight key words, the main idea, the necessary information in the text; • to name the parts of the body, the main organs and systems; describe deseases and their major symptoms; • to describe patient condition, course of the illness; • to recognise linguistic structures characteristic to scientific and popular science sources (noun formation, cases, agreement with adjectives; grammatical system of the verb in the active voice, the imperative; the subjunctive mood, participle and the infinitive, etc.). | ||||||||
| Skills: | After successful course complition students will be able to: • use appropriate medical terminology to interact with patients/clients and colleagues; • select medical terminology and make their own termininological glossary; • speak about 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; to perceive and deliver the necessary information related to patient condition; to express own opinion and put forward arguments on general medical issues; to form questions and ask them to a patient. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Марцелли, A.A. 2011. Латинский язык и основы медицинской терминологии. Ростов-на-Дону. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Krasnais, M., .Pužule, V., Silakalne, S. 2014. Грамматика легко и просто. Krievu valodas gramatikas rokasgrāmata. Zvaigzne; ABC. | ||||||||
| 2 | Krievu-latviešu vārdnīca ar skaidrojumiem un piemēriem. 2005. Zvaigzne: ABC . | ||||||||
| 3 | Большой толковый медицинский словарь. 2001. 1 -2 том. Москва, | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | www.medicport.ru | ||||||||
| 2 | www.med.ru | ||||||||
