aZLLT0121c Basic Medical Terminology I - practice

Faculty of Medicine
autumn 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Natália Gachallová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Marie Okáčová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
PhDr. Renata Prucklová (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Andrea Salayová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Veronika Dvořáčková, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Kateřina Pořízková, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Libor Švanda, Ph.D. (assistant)
PhDr. Jana Vyorálková (assistant)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Natália Gachallová, Ph.D.
Language Centre, Faculty of Medicine Division – Language Centre
Contact Person: Mgr. Natália Gachallová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Faculty of Medicine
Timetable
Wed 8:00–9:40 C15/113
Prerequisites
No previous knowledge of Latin/Greek is required.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Greek-Latin medical terminology is one of the relevant means for acquisition of the target knowledge of medical students. The tuition is of both theoretic and practical character, conceived as a preparatory course sui generis, introducing the students into the study of medicine by means of its language.
The content of tuition is, like the set of knowledge postulated in the examination, exclusively determined by the needs of the discipline and medical practice. In the first place it provides such knowledge of Latin and/or Greek as enables the student to master quickly and purposefully the semantic aspect of terms, their grammatical form, and word-forming structure. Simultaneously it provides systematic instruction to independent solution of current terminological problems consisting in understanding of the technical content of the terms and in the formation of medical terms. Besides this it opens a view of the wider historical and linguistic fundamentals of medical terminology as well as its general theoretical contexts.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students should be able to:
- use Latin and Greek-Latin medical terminology and expressions correctly and understand them;
- recognize and explain grammatical devices and rules relevant for acquisition of Greek-Latin medical terminology;
- explain syntactic structure of complex terms;
- recognize the semantic structure of selected anatomical and clinical one-word terms;
- form compound words applying the most used word-formation principles;
- translate selected expressions from anatomy and pre-clinical and clinical fields of study.
Syllabus
  • BASIC MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY - practice. Syllabus.
  • An obligatory part of each class is practice and testing of knowledge acquired during the seminars.
  • 1st week: Course requirements. Checking the level of initial knowledge. Pronunciation. Introduction to basic grammatical concepts of a flective language (case system, declension chart, understanding the dictionary entry - Genitive stem).
  • 2nd week: 1st declension. Function of Genitive in anatomical terms - nouns in apposition. Basic prepositions.
  • 3rd week: Adjectives of 1st and 2nd declension. Agreement of noun and adjective.
  • 4th week: 2nd declension - Latin paradigms.
  • 5th week: 2nd declension - Greek paradigms.
  • 6th week: 1st progress test. Introduction to nouns of 3rd declension.
  • 7th week: Consonant and i-stems.
  • 8th week: Revision of the nouns of first three declensions.
  • 9th week: Progress test 2. Introduction to 4th and 5th declension.
  • 10th week: 4th and 5th declension.
  • 11th week: Adjectives of 3rd declension.
  • 12th week: Forming adjectives from nouns and vice-versa.
  • 13th week: Final revision.
  • 14th week: Final test.
Literature
    required literature
  • PRUCKLOVÁ, Renata a Marta SEVEROVÁ. Introduction to Latin and Greek terminology in medicine. 4th, rev. ed. Praha: KLP, 2016. xii, 117. ISBN 9788087773413.
    recommended literature
  • EHRLICH, Ann and Carol L. SCHROEDER. Medical terminology for health professions. 6th ed. Clifton Park, NY: Delmar, Cegage Learning, 2009, xxvi, 582. ISBN 9781418072520. info
Bookmarks
https://is.muni.cz/ln/tag/LF:aZLLT0121c!
Teaching methods
lectures, translation and grammar exercises, drills, group activities, homework
Assessment methods
Requirements for gaining the credit: regular class attendance, active participation in class, preparation for classes, sitting progress tests and a credit test which is focused on word-formation, nominal inflexion being involved only marginally. The basic limit for passing all tests is 70% (the pass-mark for the credit test is lowered by 5% each time the progress test, which is obligatory) is successfully written, at most by 10%). Only one unexcused absence will be tolerated; further absences must be properly excused (i.e. via the Study Department of the Faculty of Medicine). Class attendance is registered through the IS.For the course requirements, see also the file available in the study materials of the course.
Language of instruction
English
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 15.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, autumn 2019, autumn 2020.
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