Inglese

Unit 1
Defining medicine?
Defining medicine by other goal-oriented practices
Medicine, health & wellbeing
Medical professionalism
Medical care systems and practices
Folk medicine
Alternative medicine
Mainstream scientific medicine
Understanding the science and art of medicine
Medicine as science
Medicine as art
Science and art of medicine go hand in hand
Evidence-based medicine and other approaches
Medical science and art: a comprehensive view Medicine and health
Medical professionalism
Medicine vs. public health
History of medicine
The early days of medicine
Greek and Roman medicine
Medicine in the early modern era: 16th -18th centuries Renaissance 6
Advances in modern medicine: 19th century
Medicine in the 20th century and beyond
Healthcare delivery systems and interprofessional care teams
Interprofessional collaboration
Interprofessional care teams: the UK healthcare system
Types of healthcare services
Primary healthcare
Secondary healthcare
Tertiary healthcare
Digitalisation of healthcare services: telemedicine
Medical education
Medical education in the UK
Medical regulatory bodies
Branches of medicine
Medical conditions
Medical conditions: distinctions
Doctor-patient relationship
Instrumental and affective components in doctor-patient relationship
Doctor-patient relationship and medical ethics
Types of doctor-patient relationship
Main requirements for a good doctor-patient relationship

Unit 2
1 argomento (paragrafato o/paragrafato-sottoparagrafato) scelto dallo studente

Professionalism in medical practice: past and present
Professional standards for doctors
Understanding ethics in more detail
Medical ethics
Understanding medical professionalism in more detail
Medical professionalism: views from the academic scholarship
Defensive medicine
Medicalmalpractice: what is it?
Most common medical negligence cases
Grounds for a medical negligence claim

G. Tessuto 2024, English for Medicine: A toolkit for discourse and genre-based approaches to medical language and communication. Giappichelli, Torino (TESTO FONDAMENTALE)

Per la prova scritta di inglese medico-scientifico: materiale redatto specificamente dai docenti (Harrison / Colacino) acquistabile in dispensa da un rivenditore locale

Formare gli studenti nell'ottica delle competenze trasversali tra linguaggio scientifico e l'ambiente etico/professionale della medicina e della salute in contesti anglofoni e internazionali.

Livello intermedio B2 (inferiore/avanzato) della lingua inglese.

Lezioni frontali monolingua presentate in powerpoint e audio integrate da momenti di dibattito e confronto con lavoro a gruppi, sollecitando gli studenti a produrre a loro volta materiali specialistici orali e scritti in inglese (ad esempio, produrre un abstract di articolo scientifico o presentare un poster) da condividere con il resto del gruppo classe sulle diverse tematiche affrontate nelle lezioni. Sono disponibili sessioni di tutoraggio settimanali.

Svolgimento di un test scritto preliminare sulle strutture lessico-grammaticali dell'inglese medico-scientifico.
Esame orale sui contenuti del testo fondamentale English for medicine (Tessuto 2024) come da programma

Ove necessario, si consiglia anche la pratica della lingua inglese nelle sua applicazioni generali mediante la piattaforma di apprendimento autonomo Rosetta Stone.

Conoscenze della lingua inglese nel settore linguistico medico-scientifico attraverso nozioni e concetti fondamentali in campo medico e sanitario.

Unit 1
Defining medicine?
Defining medicine by other goal-oriented practices
Medicine, health & wellbeing
Medical professionalism
Medical care systems and practices
Folk medicine
Alternative medicine
Mainstream scientific medicine
Understanding the science and art of medicine
Medicine as science
Medicine as art
Science and art of medicine go hand in hand
Evidence-based medicine and other approaches
Medical science and art: a comprehensive view Medicine and health
Medical professionalism
Medicine vs. public health
History of medicine
The early days of medicine
Greek and Roman medicine
Medicine in the early modern era: 16th -18th centuries Renaissance 6
Advances in modern medicine: 19th century
Medicine in the 20th century and beyond
Healthcare delivery systems and interprofessional care teams
Interprofessional collaboration
Interprofessional care teams: the UK healthcare system
Types of healthcare services
Primary healthcare
Secondary healthcare
Tertiary healthcare
Digitalisation of healthcare services: telemedicine
Medical education
Medical education in the UK
Medical regulatory bodies
Branches of medicine
Medical conditions
Medical conditions: distinctions
Doctor-patient relationship
Instrumental and affective components in doctor-patient relationship
Doctor-patient relationship and medical ethics
Types of doctor-patient relationship
Main requirements for a good doctor-patient relationship

Unit 2
1 argomento (paragrafato o/paragrafato-sottoparagrafato) scelto dallo studente

Professionalism in medical practice: past and present
Professional standards for doctors
Understanding ethics in more detail
Medical ethics
Understanding medical professionalism in more detail
Medical professionalism: views from the academic scholarship
Defensive medicine
Medical malpractice: what is it?
Most common medical negligence cases
Grounds for a medical negligence claim

English

Unit 1
Defining medicine?
Defining medicine by other goal-oriented practices
Medicine, health & wellbeing
Medical professionalism
Medical care systems and practices
Folk medicine
Alternative medicine
Mainstream scientific medicine
Understanding the science and art of medicine
Medicine as science
Medicine as art
Science and art of medicine go hand in hand
Evidence-based medicine and other approaches
Medical science and art: a comprehensive view Medicine and health
Medical professionalism
Medicine vs. public health
History of medicine
The early days of medicine
Greek and Roman medicine
Medicine in the early modern era: 16th -18th centuries Renaissance 6
Advances in modern medicine: 19th century
Medicine in the 20th century and beyond
Healthcare delivery systems and interprofessional care teams
Interprofessional collaboration
Interprofessional care teams: the UK healthcare system
Types of healthcare services
Primary healthcare
Secondary healthcare
Tertiary healthcare
Digitalisation of healthcare services: telemedicine
Medical education
Medical education in the UK
Medical regulatory bodies
Branches of medicine
Medical conditions
Medical conditions: distinctions
Doctor-patient relationship
Instrumental and affective components in doctor-patient relationship
Doctor-patient relationship and medical ethics
Types of doctor-patient relationship
Main requirements for a good doctor-patient relationship

Unit 2
1 argomento (paragrafato o/paragrafato-sottoparagrafato) scelto dallo studente

Professionalism in medical practice: past and present
Professional standards for doctors
Understanding ethics in more detail
Medical ethics
Understanding medical professionalism in more detail
Medical professionalism: views from the academic scholarship
Defensive medicine
Medicalmalpractice: what is it?
Most common medical negligence cases
Grounds for a medical negligence claim

G. Tessuto 2024, English for Medicine: A toolkit for discourse and genre-based approaches to medical language and communication. Giappichelli, Torino (TESTO FONDAMENTALE)

Per la prova scritta di inglese medico-scientifico: materiale redatto specificamente dai docenti (Harrison / Colacino) acquistabile in dispensa da un rivenditore locale

Helping students to acquire necessary competences across scientific language skills and ethical/professional standards applied to areas of medicine and healthcare in Anglophone and international contexts.

B2 (lower/upper intermediate) level of English.

Monolingual frontal lessons in powerpoint or audio formats supplemented with group debate, with a view to eliciting students to produce specialist oral and written materials in English (ex: writing a research article abstract or presenting a conference poster) for sharing with other class members on any one topic dealt with.
The course teachers are available for weekly tutorials.

Preliminary written test based on lexico-grammatical structures of medical-scientific English.
Oral exam dealing with medical and healthcare concepts from mandatory textbook (Tessuto 2024) and specified in the syllabus.

Where needed, students will benefit from self-study of general English by accessing Rosetta Stone platform.

Conoscenze della lingua inglese nel settore linguistico medico-scientifico attraverso nozioni e concetti fondamentali in campo medico e sanitario.

Unit 1
Defining medicine?
Defining medicine by other goal-oriented practices
Medicine, health & wellbeing
Medical professionalism
Medical care systems and practices
Folk medicine
Alternative medicine
Mainstream scientific medicine
Understanding the science and art of medicine
Medicine as science
Medicine as art
Science and art of medicine go hand in hand
Evidence-based medicine and other approaches
Medical science and art: a comprehensive view Medicine and health
Medical professionalism
Medicine vs. public health
History of medicine
The early days of medicine
Greek and Roman medicine
Medicine in the early modern era: 16th -18th centuries Renaissance 6
Advances in modern medicine: 19th century
Medicine in the 20th century and beyond
Healthcare delivery systems and interprofessional care teams
Interprofessional collaboration
Interprofessional care teams: the UK healthcare system
Types of healthcare services
Primary healthcare
Secondary healthcare
Tertiary healthcare
Digitalisation of healthcare services: telemedicine
Medical education
Medical education in the UK
Medical regulatory bodies
Branches of medicine
Medical conditions
Medical conditions: distinctions
Doctor-patient relationship
Instrumental and affective components in doctor-patient relationship
Doctor-patient relationship and medical ethics
Types of doctor-patient relationship
Main requirements for a good doctor-patient relationship

Unit 2
1 paragraphed topic chosen by the student among:

Professionalism in medical practice: past and present
Professional standards for doctors
Understanding ethics in more detail
Medical ethics
Understanding medical professionalism in more detail
Medical professionalism: views from the academic scholarship
Defensive medicine
Medical malpractice: what is it?
Most common medical negligence cases
Grounds for a medical negligence claim