Study Programmes 2015-2016
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| Advanced English for medical sciences | |||||
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Duration :
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| 15h Th | |||||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Christine Filot, ISLV, Sébastien Schoenmaeckers | |||||
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Coordinator :
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| Christine Filot | |||||
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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 second semester | |||||
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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | |||||
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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 and oral understanding. | |||||
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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 videos in English. - allow students to briefly debate several issues thrown light on in the textbook |
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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| MedEng 1 (Medical English -1st part) 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 highly recommended. 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.
3 modules with exercises on eCampus. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Written exam in June.
Written exam with multiple choice questions (IELTS 6.0 level) based on a medical article, theory and vocabulary revised thoughout the year -both in class and @nline- and a listening comprehension exercise. 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 and of the vocabulary highlighted both in class and online. |
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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 Medical Sciences - course material 2015-2016 updated material. |
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