COURSE OBJECTIVE: Development of the appropriate language skills (vocabulary & grammatical-syntactic features) for the comprehension of the basic ENGLISH MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY as well as for the comprehension and written production of medical scientific papers.

COURSE CONTENT: Topics The academic organisation of the university environment – History of Medicine – Anatomical Terminology - Histology – Biochemistry – Microbiology – Biology – Physiology – Digestive System – Medical ethics – Nervous system & Endocrinology – Pharmacology & Drugs – Pathology & Immunology – General Surgery – Musculoskeletal system & Orthopaedics Language features: Tenses (Active & Passive Voice) – Derivatives & Nominalisation – Prepositions – Participles & Gerunds – Relative clauses – Reporting verbs – Modal verbs & Hedges. The structure of the medical research paper (Title, Abstract, Methodology, Graph Description, Results, Discussion, References).

COURSE METHODOLOGY AND OUTCOMES: The material used for teaching include: a book (distributed via Eudoxus) and digital, multimedia material, uploaded in the online platform E-course of the Univ. of Ioannina. Group projects are assigned and particular emphasis is placed upon use of New Technologies (power-point presentations, creation of infographics, use of corpora, etc.) for the practice of language skills. By the end of this course, students are expected to have acquainted with the basic English Medical Terminology and the language requirements of a medical scientific paper.

ECTS: 2