The English for the Medical Professions course is aimed at creating or developing in medical professionals the linguistic-communication skills in the four fundamental language skills (Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing) to interact in national and international clinical settings.
The course is modeled on the "patient-centered" criterion with topics related to the medical field.
Classes (lasting 3 hours each) will be held in person at SafesPro's headquarters at 5 Amphitheater Street, Taranto, on Fridays (afternoons) and Saturdays (mornings), for about 2 1/2 months.
The course aims to make the practitioner autonomous in communicating with English-speaking patients and/or in work settings where English is central or a priority.
The study will have as its supporting structures industry topics, linguistic accuracy, appropriate "fluency" , communicative dynamics. The expected level is B2.1/B2.2 according to the CEFR scale.
The course is also essential to address preparation for the certification OET (Occupational English Test).
The course is intended for students and/or health professionals.
The Basics
- Taking a History
- Examining a patient
- Systems, diseases and symptoms
- Special examination
- Investigations
- Making a diagnosis
- Explaining a diagnosis
- Treatment
The Language:
Socializing:
- Introducing a patient/a collegue
- Asking/receiving simple information about a patient/a collegue
- Taking leave
- Turn taking
Expressing intellectual attitudes
- Expressing possibility about treatment/recovery
- Expressing capability
- Expressing necessity
- Deducing from symptoms
- Predicting the evolution of a case
- Making hypotheses about therapies
- Offering, accepting, refusing options/support
- Giving permission during and after a treatment
- Making comparisons between therapies
- Agreeing, disagreeing about a diagnosis/a course of medication
Expressing emotional attitudes:
- Expressing likes, dislikes about one's routine
- Permanence in hospital: admission and discharge
- Understanding patient's preference, ideas, concerns and expectations
- Expressing/receiving gratitude for the successful solution of a case
Factual information
- Taking a history of a patient/describing/narrating/reporting family history
- Describing health condition
- Correcting information
Suasion:
- Suggesting/advising a course of action
- Getting things done from a patient/his family
- Warning against incorrect lifestyle
- Examining a patient: giving instructions
- Offering assistance
Moral attitudes
- Apologising
- Approving, disapproving
- Regretting: giving bad news
Final test and certificate of attendance
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