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Medical English 2/c - Writing Up Research - How to Prepare and Read Medical Journal Articles

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: OAF-ANC-T
  • 2 kredit
  • General Medicine
  • Optional modul
  • both
Prerequisites:

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Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 20

Topic

Preparing for processing biomedical research articles written in English required during the premedical, medical, preclinical and clinical courses. Preparing for writing up research in biomedical research articles in English

Lectures

  • 1. The genre of Medical Research Articles (MRAs) - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 2. The vocabulary and syntax of MRAs - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 3. Evidence based medicine in MRAs - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 4. Types of research papers compared to MRAs - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 5. An overview of the content of MRA subsections - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 6. Inductive enquiry as reflected in MRAs - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 7. The reseachz process 1 - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 8. The research process 2 - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 9. Types of truth in MRAs - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 10. Interpreted truth in MRAs - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 11. Hedging in MRAs 1 - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 12. Hedging in MRAs 2 - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 13. Politeness in MRAs 1 - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 14. Politeness in MRAs 2 - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 15. The Introduction section of MRAs 1 - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 16. The Introduction section of MRAs 2 - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 17. The method section of MRAs 1 - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 18. The Methods section of MRAs 2 - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 19. The Results section of MRAs 1 - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 20. The Results section of MRAs 2 - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 21. The Discussion section of MRAs 1 - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 22. The Discussion section of MRAs 2 - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 23. abstracts, summaries, titles of MRAs - Rébék-Nagy Gábor
  • 24. Course summary, grades - Rébék-Nagy Gábor

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Weissberg, R. & Buker, S.: Writing Up Research. Experimental Research Report Writing for Students of English, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall Regents, 1990

Literature developed by the Department

in-house hand-outs

Notes

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Recommended literature

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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

1/ Four quizzes

2/ Essay on the theory of medical research article writing

3/ Annotating a medical research article

Making up for missed classes

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

Exam topics/questions

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Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

Rólunk