Medicine and Surgery HT

- Text exploitation: Targeted analysis of scientific texts. The lessons are aimed at expanding, systemizing, and reusing the vocabulary encountered in the texts proposed in the classroom. The methodology used is based on the Lexical Approach of M. Lewis. During the lessons, the students will be guided to find lexical collocations, pre-fabricated expressions, and lexical scaffoldings that can be personalized and reused in the expressive phase, both written and oral, in other communicative contexts. The working method favors reflective and autonomous learning. During the lessons, simulations of recombination exercises and reuse of the vocabulary will be carried out.

In order to understand the teaching contents and achieve the learning objectives, at the beginning of the educational activities scheduled for the didactic module, the student must have basic knowledge of English grammar and terminology at B1 level.

The teacher will upload the material required for the lectures on the e-learning “Moodle” platform.

Attendance to classes is compulsory as required by the degree program regulations.

Compilation of a Portfolio with classroom activities. Lexical test such as matching or cloze.

Face-to-face lessons with individual and group tasks, which students will upload onto their Portfolio.

The phonetic alphabet; homophones, uncountable words and compound words (prefixes, infixes and suffixes) in medical language. Words frequently used in medical language: pronunciation, meaning, contextual use and example sentences. The IMRAD model for writing a scientific article. The main types of clinical studies (case-control, cohort, cross-sectional, retrospective or prospective observational, clinical trials).

Basic knowledge of the English language.

Scientific articles, slides and videos provided during lectures.

Students are required to attend at least 2/3 of the lessons.

The student must answer at least half + one of the questions correctly.

The teaching involves the delivery of some lessons in asynchronous mode on the Moodle platform. Students will have to practice reading and listening to technical-scientific English by reading texts and watching videos, and then carry out some related exercises.