LF:VSLT0121c Bas. Med. Terminology -p - Course Information

VSLT0121c Basic Medical Terminology I - practice

Extent and Intensity

0/1. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. PhDr. Elena Marečková, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Jana Mikulová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Marie Okáčová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Kateřina Pořízková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Libor Švanda, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Bc. Pavla Adamčíková (seminar tutor), Mgr. Marie Okáčová, Ph.D. (deputy)
Mgr. et Mgr. Bc. Eva Dávidová (seminar tutor), Mgr. Marie Okáčová, Ph.D. (deputy)
Mgr. Eliška Kubartová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor), Mgr. Marie Okáčová, Ph.D. (deputy)
PhDr. Marta Severová (seminar tutor), Mgr. Marie Okáčová, Ph.D. (deputy)
PhDr. Hana Němcová (assistant)
Mgr. Jarmila Šafránková (assistant)
PhDr. Jana Vyorálková (assistant)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. Elena Marečková, CSc.
Language Centre, Faculty of Medicine Division – Language Centre
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Elena Marečková, CSc.

Timetable of Seminar Groups

VSLT0121c/01: Wed 13:40–15:20 407
VSLT0121c/02: Fri 10:20–12:00 407
VSLT0121c/03: Fri 10:20–12:00 407
VSLT0121c/04: Fri 10:20–12:00 407
VSLT0121c/05: Fri 8:30–10:10 407
VSLT0121c/06: Fri 8:30–10:10 407
VSLT0121c/07: Tue 14:00–15:40 407
VSLT0121c/08: Tue 14:00–15:40 407
VSLT0121c/09: Tue 14:00–15:40 407
VSLT0121c/10: Fri 8:30–10:10 407
VSLT0121c/11: Wed 11:50–13:30 407
VSLT0121c/12: Tue 11:30–13:10 407
VSLT0121c/13: Tue 7:30–9:10 407
VSLT0121c/14: Tue 7:30–9:10 407
VSLT0121c/15: Tue 7:30–9:10 407
VSLT0121c/16: Wed 11:50–13:30 407
VSLT0121c/17: Wed 13:40–15:20 407
VSLT0121c/18: Wed 13:40–15:20 407
VSLT0121c/19: Tue 11:30–13:10 407
VSLT0121c/20: Tue 11:30–13:10 407
VSLT0121c/30: No timetable has been entered into IS.
VSLT0121c/31: No timetable has been entered into IS.
VSLT0121c/32: No timetable has been entered into IS.
VSLT0121c/33: No timetable has been entered into IS.
VSLT0121c/34: No timetable has been entered into IS.
VSLT0121c/35: No timetable has been entered into IS.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of Latin will facilitate the study of the subject and may be regarded as a useful component of the educational outfit of students when entering the faculty, though it is no obligatory prerequisite for the acquisition of the university subject matter in the introductory phase.

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

• General Medicine (eng.) (programme LF, M-VL)
• General Medicine (programme LF, M-VL) (2)

Course objectives

General characteristics of the subject: 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;
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 practising and testing of knowledge.
• 1st week: Checking the level of initial knowledge.
• 2nd week: Terms denoting planes of the human body.
• 3rd week: Terms denoting positions and directions of the human body.
• 4th week: Terms denoting fractures.
• 5th week: Terms describing wounds and injuries.
• 6th week: Revision I.
• 7th week: Terms denoting fever.
• 8th week: Terms denoting colour (1).
• 9th week: Terms denoting colour (2).
• 10th week: Terms denoting age.
• 11th week: Terms denoting sex.
• 12th week: Terms describing expressions of face.
• 13th week: Revision II. 14th week: Credit test. 15th week: Credit acknowledgement.

Literature

• MAREČKOVÁ, Elena and Hana REICHOVÁ. Úvod do lékařské terminologie. Základy latiny s přihlédnutím k řečtině (Introduction to medical terminology. Basic Latin and Greek). 2. dotisk 5., nezm. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2010, 187 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-4072-4. info
• PRUCKLOVÁ, Renata and Marta SEVEROVÁ. Introduction to Latin and Greek Terminology in Medicine. 2., přeprac. a rev. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2006, 153 pp. ISBN 80-210-4051-3. info
• KÁBRT, Jan and Jan KÁBRT JR. Lexicon medicum. Druhé, dopl. a přeprac. vyd. Praha: Galén, 2004, 1136 pp. ISBN 80-7262-235-8. info
• VEJRAŽKA, Martin and Dana SVOBODOVÁ. Terminologiae medicae IANUA. 2. vyd. Praha: Academia, 2006, 440 pp. ISBN 80-200-1459-4. info
• První dva tituly jsou základní (český/anglický program), ostatní doplňkové. - The first two titles are basic (Czech/English programme), the others supplementary

Bookmarks

https://is.muni.cz/ln/tag/LF:VSLT0121c!

Teaching methods

lectures, translation and grammar exercises, drills, homework

Assessment methods

Regular class attendance is obligatory.
First-term credit requirements: regular class attendance, active class participation, class preparation, written homework, mid-term test and end-of-term test (nominal inflection).

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: cvičení.

• Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2009, recent)
  
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