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| LANG0074-1 | Advanced English for biomedical sciences
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Christine Filot, Sébastien Schoenmaeckers |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| English language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| The MedEng 2 course continues the development of reading skills, data gathering, and note-taking using texts or series of texts (as started during the MedEng 1 course), and focuses also on research capacities, oral understanding, and presentation skills. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| - allow students to read and understand English medical literature.
- allow students to understand short oral presentations in English.
- allow students to present in English scientific or medical information in a correct and consistent fashion. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| MedEng 1 (Medical English -1st part, in 1st year of the Bachelor's Degree in Medicine or Dentistry) or equivalent (e.g. IELTS 5.5-6 or Cambridge Advanced English A- C). |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| The course features two-hour in-class sessions where the students' active participation is required (through debates and listening and reading comprehension exercises) alternating with mandatory online modules (enhancing vocabulary, reading and listening skills). |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| The course is taught in groups after an introductory lecture given in amphitheater. Class attendance is compulsory. The online learning modules are prepared at home by students between courses and must be completed before attending the next class. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Medeng2 course notes are available in digital format through eCampus.
Compulsory modules with exercises and tests on eCampus. The completion of the online modules is taken into account in the final grade. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| 25% of the final mark is accounted for by in-class and online work, as the final written exam in January accounts for the remaining 75%.
Written exam with multiple choice questions (IELTS 6.0 level) based on a medical article, theory revised in the course of the year and listening comprehension.
Students must demonstrate the ability to fully understand an unabridged and unsimplified paper from a medical journal, and medical data presented orally (through global and detailed understanding), as well as their knowledge of scientific English stylistic features.
Class attendance is compulsory. The students who will be absent for more than 30% of the classes will not be allowed to take the exam and will be considered "absent". |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| We insist on the fact that you can train and test yourself online on the ISLV Website: http://www.islv.ulg.ac.be/. |
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Contacts :
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| Christine Bouvy cbouvy@ulg.ac.be, Julien Dubois jdubois@ulg.ac.be, Pascal Maquinay p.maquinay@ulg.ac.be(jdubois@ulg.ac.be and Sébastien Schoenmaeckers )sebastien.schoenmaeckers@ulg.ac.be. |
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| Items online : |
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| Advanced English for Biomedical Sciences - course material |
| 2014-2015 updated material. |
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