Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
English for Dentistry 3
Teaching staff
By appointment
Dr Noelia Navarro
nnavarrog@uic.es
Introduction
The aim of this program is primarily to provide students with the necessary language required to interact in various situations of the dentistry profession and with a multicultural and international scope. All language skills—speaking, listening, writing and reading are equally emphasized for this purpose.
The programme contains 3 elements that include class-based lessons, tutorials and self study. The teacher-led lessons focus on communication skills necessary for future dentists. Such activities are designed to develop oral communication and comprehension within an academic and professional setting. Tutorials will focus on student development and interpersonal skills and will include an evaluated group project. The final part is the self-study or ‘distance learning’ element which primarily focuses on developing reading, writing and listening skills, consolidating grammar, specific lexis and increasing the autonomy of the learner when learning a foreign language.
Pre-course requirements
The preferred minimum global level before the start of the course is B1.
Objectives
Classroom:
To prepare and equip students with the lexical and grammatical knowledge necessary to understand, synthesize and interact in various contexts of the dentistry profession in English.
To reinforce the reading, listening and speaking skills through practice using a variety of stimuli, and to facilitate the development of the productive skill, writing.
Tutorial:
To develop students’ interpersonal skills and ability to work with others in both native and an additional language.
Self Study:
To increase reading comprehension skills through tasks requiring students to analyze language on a lexical and structural basis, main and supporting ideas, and organizational patterns common in English literature related to dentistry; to reinforce listening comprehension skills; to review high-frequency grammatical structures and vocabulary encountered in the dentistry profession.
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
- 08 - Knowing how to share information with other healthcare professionals and how to work as part of a team.
- 18 - Being aware of, critically evaluating and knowing how to use sources of clinical and biomedical infomation in order to obtain, organise, interpret and communicate scientific and healthcare-related information.
- 20 - Obtaining and creating a medical record containing all the relevant information.
Learning outcomes of the subject
Students will be able to:
- manage terminology and language (in English) related to their area of interest in dentistry
- understand and participate in conferences in an academic setting.
- give oral and written presentations in an academic environment.
- analyze and synthesize oral and written information.
- work in a team.
Syllabus
Topics:
Students will cover topics related to post-graduate work and continuing education in the dentistry profession. Students will learn to perform in the following areas: recruitment and job search, different types of presentation situations both individually and in groups, communication and collaboration through use of the Internet, and the application process for post-graduate coursework.
Discipline-specific Language Skills:
Students will learn to search for, understand and discuss literature related to the dentistry profession and their own particular fields of interest. They will practice public speaking and synthesis skills using material covered throughout the course and from their clinical training. Students will learn to communicate in professional contexts both orally and in written form.
Language Knowledge:
Students will revise/consolidate knowledge about pronunciation of general dentistry terms, high-frequency vocabulary related to professional and academic contexts of the dentistry profession.
Bibliography and resources
Class-based materials have been developed from a wide range of professional and educational resources from current online professional journals and textbooks.
Dofka C: Dental Terminology, New York, 2007, Thomson Delmar Learning
Lang T: How to Write, Publish, and Present in the Health Sciences: A Guide for Physicians and Laboratory Researchers, 2009, American College of Physicians