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Medical English 2/a - Presentation Techniques

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Course director

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 24 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 24 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: ODE-ANA-T
  • 2 kredit
  • General Medicine
  • Elective modul
  • both
Prerequisites:

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Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 20

Topic

Preparing, understanding and giving biomedical presentations in English. Preparing for presentations in Student Researchers Association in English.

Lectures

  • 1. The genre of biomedical conference presentation - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 2. The discourse community of biomedical conference presentations - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 3. The anatomy of biomedical conference presentations - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 4. The macro and micro structure of biomedical conference presentations - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 5. The three planes of communication in biomedical conference presentations - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 6. The factual plane in biomedical coönference presentations - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 7. The textual plane of biomedical conference presentations - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 8. The interpersonal plane in biomedical conference presentations - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 9. Language tools in the factual plane of biomedical conference presentations - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 10. language tools in the textual plane of biomedical conference presentations - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 11. Hedging in biomedical conference presentations 1. - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 12. Hedging in biomedical conference presentations 2. - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 13. Politeness in biomedical conference presentations 1. - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 14. Politeness in biomedical conference presentations 2. - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 15. Criteria for assessing biomedical conference presentations - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 16. Criteria for assessing biomedical conference presentations in use - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 17. Sample biomedical conference presentation 1 - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 18. Sample biomedical conference presentation 2. - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 19. Sample biomedical conference presentation 3 - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 20. Sample biomedical conference presentation 4 - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 21. Sample biomedical conference presentation 5 - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 22. Sample biomedical conference presentation 6 - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 23. Course summary, evaluation of students'essays - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 24. Course summary, grades - Rébék-Nagy Gábor

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

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Literature developed by the Department

In-house materials

Notes

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Recommended literature

Mark Powel: Presenting in English (How to Give Successful Presentations), 1996

Joan MacLean: Presenting at Medical Meetings, in-house hand-out

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Participation in practicles is obligatory. Absences exceeding 15% but below 25% of the total number of contact hours can be excused by the group tutor. In case absences exceed 25% of the total number of contact hours the course must be regarded as uncompleted.

Mid-term exams

A 10-minute presentation in English on a biomedical subject

Making up for missed classes

To be discussed with the course tutor in each individual case.

Exam topics/questions

An essay of 900-1000 words on the theory of giving presentations

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

  • Rébék-Nagy Gábor
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