TEACHING ENGLISH FOR MEDICINE - A THREE-FOLD APPROACH
TEACHING ENGLISH FOR MEDICINE - A THREE-FOLD APPROACH

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with some of the strategies that I use in teaching English for Medicine. Icall this the three-fold approach because it consists of three different goals or objectives. The first oneis communication. Since I mostly work with 1st year students who do not yet have a very accurateunderstanding of medical processes, my second strategy is to incorporate some basic practical skillsthroughout the course, acting both as contents and as opportunities for the development of otherskills. And because one of the most important social skills for working in any medical setting isempathy, I will take a look at if and how can it be developed. Of course, in practice these threeaspects are always overlapping and the boundaries between them are very fuzzy. However, I will treateach and every one separately for the sake of clarity.

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