14816 - English for Healthcare Professions Modulübersicht

Module Number: 14816
Module Title:English for Healthcare Professions
  Englisch für Gesundheitsberufe
Department: ZES - Language Centre
Responsible Staff Member:
  • Klug, Kristina
Language of Teaching / Examination:English
Duration:1 semester
Frequency of Offer: Every winter semester
Credits: 6
Learning Outcome:

The first part English for Patient communication introduces students to the foreign language in a professional context. The aim is to impart language skills and knowledge that are required for oral communication with patients in the fields of nursing, physiotherapy or midwifery in English-speaking countries or whenever English a common language.
 
The focus is on building a vocabulary specific to the profession as well as on context-related oral communication, with an emphasis on speaking skills and listening comprehension. An essential aspect here is a communicative approach, which should enable the students to guide, instruct and advice their patients.
 
Other learning outcomes are:
-       Students can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered at work
-       Students can use relevant vocabulary and suitable professional communication strategies
-       Students can use Teach back, Chunk & Check as specific communication strategies
-       Students can develop communication strategies for usage with other healthcare professionals
 
The second part English for Reading of Academic Medical Texts is designed for learners at intermediate level or above who want to develop their reading skills for study purposes and also in preparation of future studies at Master level. Placing an emphasis not only on extensive reading skills development, but also on continued language development through four main areas: understanding the text, critical thinking, using the text and language focus on lexis typical for academic texts for the healthcare professions.
 
Students will be encouraged to reflect on their current reading strategies, by doing a variety of task- based problem-solving activities. By exposure to the ideas of others, students will be able to refine and improve their reading strategies.

Contents:

Communication in and relevant vocabulary for  these situations:

- Admission of patients (hospital tasks and staff, departments and facilities, admission of a patient)
- Medical history (medical and social)
- Pain (localisation and description of pain, pain assessment, successful communication, pain relief)
- Discharge of patients (assessment of the degree of independence, discharge plan, explanation of medication, making appointments by telephone)
- Instructions for patients (exercises, nutrition)
- Focus on specific injuries and conditions (injuries to the musculoskeletal system, heart and cardiovascular fitness, diabetes, stroke, respiratory problems)
- Focus on mental health (of the patient and medical professionals)
- Introduction to dealing with complex topics (e.g. death, premature births, stillbirths, FGM)

Reading skills:
- Identifying purpose and target audience
- Skimming vs. scanning
- Predicting content
- Identifying relationships between ideas and theories
- Text organisation and topic sentences
- Making connections
- Comparing facts vs. opinions
- Dealing with data


Recommended Prerequisites:None
Mandatory Prerequisites:None
Forms of Teaching and Proportion:
  • Exercise / 4 Hours per Week per Semester
  • Self organised studies / 120 Hours
Teaching Materials and Literature:
  • Express Publishing: Physiotherapy; V. Evans, J. Dooley and S. Hartley MPT (2017)
  • Wydawnictwo: English for Physiotherapy; J. Ciecierska English for Physiotherapy Fizjoterapia (2013)
  • Springer: Fachenglisch für Gesundheitsberufe; S. Schiller (2011)
  • OUP: Medicine 2; Sam McCarter (2019)
  • Pearson: English for Nursing
  • Vocational English Course Book; Maria Spada Symonds and Ros Wright (2011) 
  • Klett: Flash on English for Nursing; Adrienne Harrison (2017) 
  • Cambridge University Press: Cambridge English for Nursing; Virginia Allum and Patricia McGarr (2008) 
  • Cambridge University Press: Professional English in Use Medicine; Eric H. Glendinning and Ron Howard (2007)
  • Pocket Guide English for Midwives
  • Sprach- und Grammatikbücher
    Allgemeine und spezialisierte Wörterbücher
    Artikel auf den Websites wissenschaftlicher Zeitschriften
Module Examination:Continuous Assessment (MCA)
Assessment Mode for Module Examination:

3 Tests
• Listening 25% (2 texts of up to 5min each)
• Reading 25% (1 text of ca 5 pages)
• Speaking 50% (dialogue with 1 or 2 partners of up to 15min)

Evaluation of Module Examination:Performance Verification – graded
Limited Number of Participants:None
Part of the Study Programme:
  • no assignment
 This module has been approved for the general studies.
Remarks:

An additional and prior REGISTRATION of the students at the Language Centre is required (https://www.b-tu.de/sprachen)!
No more than 25 students can be enrolled in each language course group.
The courses can be held in presence or online.

Module Components:2SWS English for Patient Communication (019256) in combination with 2SWS English for Reading of Academic Medical Texts (019243)
Components to be offered in the Current Semester:
  • no assignment