Teaching Medical English. A Model Curriculum for Medical English Teaching in Medical Schools.
- VernacularTitle:医学英語教育 医学部における英語教育カリキュラム試案
- Author:
Kenichi UEMURA
;
Kiyoshi HAJIRO
;
J Patrick BARRON
;
Yukiko IINO
;
Toshio OHKI
;
Masao OKAZAKI
;
Kimitaka KAGA
;
Shigeaki KOBAYASHI
;
Shigeru NISHIZAWA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
medical English;
medical education;
teaching English;
teaching medical English
- From:Medical Education
1996;27(6):385-388
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
-
Abstract:
The working group to improve foreign language education in medical schools established in 1994 and chaired by K. Uemura, M.D. here proposes a model curriculum for teaching useful English in medical schools at three levels. The major objectives are listening, speaking, rapid reading, and sentence structuring including paragraphing for junior (1st & 2nd yrs) students, reading medical papers and charts in English, structures of medical scientific papers, and listening to medical English for middleclass (3rd & 4th yrs) students, and writing and orally presenting papers in English on given medical subjects are for senior (5th & 6th yrs) students.
