LF:MIAJ01c English language - practice - Course Information
MIAJ01c English language - practice
Faculty of Medicinespring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Veronika Dvořáčková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
PhDr. Jana Vyorálková (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Veronika Dvořáčková, Ph.D.
Language Centre, Faculty of Medicine Division – Language Centre
Supplier department: Language Centre, Faculty of Medicine Division – Language Centre - Prerequisites
- General English at the B1+ CEFR level.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Intensive Care (programme LF, N-IP)
- Course objectives
- The course objective is to develop students' receptive (reading, listening) and productive (speaking, writing) English language skills and to enhance their knowledge of selected grammar chapters at level B2+ CEFR. The course mainly aims at the development in students’ knowledge of specialized discipline-specific vocabulary and skills for effective expert-patient and expert-expert communication. The course also seeks to practise basic presentation and writing skills.
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of the course students will be able to describe and explain aspects of work in resuscitation departments and intensive care units, processes of nursing care, needs of patients and monitoring in intensive care; characterise and explain types of nutrition in intensive care, nursing procedures and prevention; follow and discuss current trends and issues in intensive care; participate actively in expert-patient and expert-family communication, interprofessional team work and use practical medical vocabulary in expert-expert communication; use critical thinking and decision making in intensive care; participate in interdisciplinary collaboration and exploit various ways of professional development; use grammatical structures typical for medical and academic language.
- Syllabus
- Aspects of work in resuscitation departments and intensive care units;
- Nursing care, processes and documentation in resuscitation and intensive care;
- Needs of patients and monitoring in intensive care;
- Nutrition in intensive care;
- Nursing procedures and prevention;
- Current trends and issues in intensive care;
- Expert-patient and expert-family communication;
- Interprofessional team work and expert-expert communication;
- Critical thinking and decision making in intensive care;
- Interdisciplinary and collaboration and professional development.
- Teaching methods
- seminars, discussions, pair work, group work, home assignments, reading, presentations
- Assessment methods
- The above mentioned topics will be consolidated using all the study skills (reading, listening, speaking, and writing). Supplementary materials used in the seminars (hard copies, electronic documents etc.) will be provided by the lecturer. The course takes the form of seminars. Attendance is compulsory. Two absences are tolerated provided a letter of excuse is handed in at the Office of Studies. Assessment is based on the results of the final examination and attendance. The examination consists of two parts, written and oral. In each part of the exam, the minimum score required is 70 %.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 20.
- Enrolment Statistics (spring 2025, recent)
- Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/med/spring2025/MIAJ01c