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Medical Terminology and Communication in Russian I
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:8.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:29:24
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VC_102 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| 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) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 16 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.2 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 16 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | No preliminary knowledge is required. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To acquire basics of medical terminology in Russian and skills for communication with patients. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | The Russian alphabet, phonemes and intonation patterns, pronunciation. Greetings and getting acquainted. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Parts of the body, gender of the noun. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Parts of the body, Nouns: singular and plural, adjectives. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Family, dwelling, the present tense of the verb. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Daily routine, time, numerals. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Food, foodstuff, meals. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Internal organs. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Taking a medical history, identity data, interrogative pronouns. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Medical history, patient complaints. Patient’s medical records. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Person’s physical appearance. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Pain, pain type. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Organ systems. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 13 | Common diseases, the most important symptoms. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 14 | Patient examination methods, instructions. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Home assignments with specific tasks for learning active vocabulary and grammar; preparation of presentations. 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 the students will: • recognise and recall the lexis of communication topics; • know basic grammar patterns; • name human body parts and organs; • know the names of common disease symptoms. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Upon successful completion of the course the students will be able to: • comprehend elementary level information; • give information about themselves, their family, daily routine; • ask and answer questions; • use the Russian language in daily communication; • select and use proper medical terminology in interviewing patients on their health condition, including taking the medical history. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | On successful completion of the course, students will be able to apply the acquired knowledge and skills practically in different communicative situations and academic studies. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Русский сезон. Учебник по русскому языку. 2019. Санкт-Петербург;vЗлатоуст. | ||||||||
| 2 | Русский сезон, рабочая тетрадь, v2018. Санкт-Петербург; Златоуст. | ||||||||
| 3 | Шкатулка, пособие по чтению для иностранцев. 2018, Москва. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Pille lsona. 2005. Īsa krievu valodas gramatika. Rīga; Zvaigzne. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | www.medicport.ru | ||||||||
| 2 | www.med.ru | ||||||||
| 3 | www.russian-as-foreign-language.com | ||||||||
