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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:2 / 3
Course supervisor:Inga Laizāne
Study type:Full time
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Medicine
Language:English
Branch of science:Linguistics

Objective

To learn the basic vocabulary and conversation skills necessary to interview a patient efficiently: body parts, most common complaints, and most common sentence structures.

Prerequisites

Having completed the mandatory Latvian course (2 or 3 semesters) but no additional Latvian courses.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

On successful completion of the course students will be able to use the basic vocabulary of medical conversation: body parts, sensations, most common symptoms.

Skills

On successful completion of the course students will be able to formulate questions in simple Latvian and grasp the point of the answer about the most common medical complaints.

Competence

On successful completion of the course students will be able to use the skills they gained in their basic Latvian course to interview patients about the most common complaints.

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2024, Autumn semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Medicine, SSNMFz8Master’sLimited choice
Medicine, SSNMF7Master’sLimited choiceSolveiga Čeirane
Planning period:Year 2025, Spring semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Medicine, SSNMF8Master’sLimited choiceSolveiga Čeirane