Basic Medical Terminology I (General Medicine + Dentistry; autumn term 2015)

Guarantee´s instructions – course requirements and rules


STUDY MATERIALS


1)       Prucklová, R. – Severová, M.: Introduction to Latin and Greek Terminology in Medicine.
Praha: KLP, 2012 (Unit 1-7)

2)     Teachers’ own materials (e.g. hand-outs, presentations, activity cards) which are going to
be periodically uploaded on the IS in Study materials of your subject. Teachers’ materials have to
be understood as an integral part of the study materials, contain majority of exercises and
explanations to the book.

3)     "Drill" on the IS (https://is.muni.cz/auth/dril/?lang=en)

         The application enables students to practice pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar covered
in Introduction to Latin and Greek Terminology in Medicine, UNIT 1-7. The manual to the application
is included in Study materials of your subject as a specific file called “DRILL Manual”.


TESTING


Type of testing

Dates of the tests

Content of testing

Pass mark

Method of tests rating


1st partial test

app. in the 6^th week of the win-ter period (the exact date will be specified at least one week
before the test)


Nouns and adjec-tives of the 1st and 2nd declensions

(unit 1-3)

70%

The partial tests are designed to help students to asses their knowledge regularly. In the event of
failure in the partial test, the student is not loosing her/his chance to pass the credit test, and
this is the reason, why the partial tests are not possible to resit.

However, each successfully written partial test automa-tically enhances student´s chances to
succeed in the credit test as the final pass mark is lowered the by 5% each time.

Taking the fact that the credit test is a very complex test anticipating the extensive knowledge of
the subject, we strongly recommend stu-dents to take advantage of lowering their pass mark of the
credit test by successful completion of the partial tests.




2nd partial test

app. in the 9^th week of the win-ter period (the exact date will be specified at least one week
before the test)

nouns of the 3rd declension

(unit 4-5)


70%


 Credit test


app. in the 14^th week of the win-ter period (the exact date will be specified at least one week
before the test)

Nouns of the 4^th and 5^th declensio-ns, adjectives of the 3^rd declension and

complex testing of the curriculum (u-nit 1-7)

60%

if successful in both partial tests


65%

if successful in one of the partial tests only


70%

if not successful in any of the partial tests

COMMON RULES FOR TESTING


1.    All students are sitting all their tests in his/her group only.

2.    During the “Dissections week” (December 14-18, 2015) seminars will concentrate on practising,
the mock version of the credit test is going to be explained.

2. Students can sit the credit test in the extra week (December 21-23, 2015) or during the 14th
week of the semester (January 4-8, 2016), there are no exceptions to this whatsoever.

3. Resits of the credit test will take place only during the exam period, i. e. January, 11 –
February 19, 2016.

4. The number of possible credit test resits is two.

5. The dates and number of resits set by the teacher before the exam period is final, it means no
other dates will be added during the exam period or later.


ACCESS TO THE PARTIAL TESTS AND CREDIT TEST RESULTS

·       Results of the tests will be available to students in the Notebook on the IS.

·       The student’s results will be given in percentage together with the pass mark.

·       The student will have the access to his/her tests during his/her teacher’s office hours
only.


ABSENCES + CLASS SUBSTITUTIONS

1.    Your absences are going to be electronically registered in the IS. In order to be sure you
have been registered as present in the class, be punctual, the attendance is always checked
immediately after the beginning of the class.

2.    We can tolerate one unexcused absence only; all further absences have to be properly excused
by the Study Department.

3.    Unexcused absences are regularly recorded in the Notebook on the IS, and students having
these records cannot sit the credit test.

4.    The student may substitute a class in another group two times per semester; the substitution
is possible only in the same week when he/she missed a class in his/her own group.

5.    The substitution is not possible in the week for which a partial test or the credit test has
been planned.

6.    The teacher at whom the student substitutes a class notes the information about the student’s
substitution in the Notebook on the IS.


NOTES!

Basic Medical Terminology I in the autumn term is a prerequisite for the subject Basic Medical
Terminology II in the spring term. Moreover, registration of many subjects in the second year of
study is dependent on successful completion of both courses.


These Guarantee’s instructions are any time available in the IS.


Written by Jozefa Artimová

01/09/2015



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