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Medical Communication with Virtual Patient (VP)

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2025-2026

Course director

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 0 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 12 hours

total of: 12 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OXF-VPC-o-T
  • 1 kredit
  • General Medicine
  • Optional modul
  • spring
Prerequisites:

-

Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 15

Topic

This course allows medical students to enhance their clinical and communication skills through immersive VR simulations using Meta Quest 3 headsets. Guided by language teachers and an experienced clinical doctor, students interact with virtual patients to practice patient communication, physical examinations, and medication administration in a realistic virtual environment.

Lectures

Practices

Seminars

  • 1. Introduction. Internal medicine. Case presentation - Dávidovics Anna
  • 2. Obstetrics and gynaecology. Case presentation - Dávidovics Anna
  • 3. Paediatrics. Case presentation - Dávidovics Anna
  • 4. Urology. Case presentation - Dávidovics Anna
  • 5. Ear, Nose and Throat. Case presentation - Dávidovics Anna
  • 6. Orthopaedics. Case presentation - Dávidovics Anna
  • 7. TEST 1 - Dávidovics Anna
  • 8. Surgery. Case presentation - Dávidovics Anna
  • 9. Dermatology. Case presentation - Dávidovics Anna
  • 10. Ophthalmology. Case presentation - Dávidovics Anna
  • 11. Neurology. Case presentation - Dávidovics Anna
  • 12. TEST 2 - Dávidovics Anna

Reading material

Obligatory literature

100 Cases in Clinical Medicine, Third Edition, CRC Press

Literature developed by the Department

Notes

Recommended literature

Professional English in Use, Medicine

The Language of Medicine, Elsevier

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

A foglalkozásokon a részvétel kötelező. A 15%-ot meghaladó, de 25% alatti hiányzásokat a kurzus vezetője igazolhatja. 25%-ot meghaladó hiányzás esetén a kurzus érvénytelen.

Mid-term exams

Two written assignments, in the 7th and 12th weeks.

Make-up opportunities are determined by the leader of the course.

Making up for missed classes

Determined by the leader of the course.

Exam topics/questions

Vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension, and listening comprehension.

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

  • Dávidovics Anna
  • Németh Tímea
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