Course Information
Course title
Online English for Medicine 
Semester
108-1 
Designated for
 
Instructor
TIEN-YI CHAO 
Curriculum Number
AdvEng4012 
Curriculum Identity Number
004E403M0 
Class
 
Credits
1.0 
Full/Half
Yr.
Half 
Required/
Elective
Elective 
Time
 
Remarks
Restriction: undergraduates
The upper limit of the number of students: 80. 
 
Course introduction video
 
Table of Core Capabilities and Curriculum Planning
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Course Syllabus
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Course Description

本課程提供醫學相關學術英語字彙並涵蓋多種醫療場域溝通情境;學習內容為醫學機構中相關人員執行工作時,以及民眾就醫、尋求醫療服務與汲取醫學知識時會使用到的英語為學習重點。不僅適合具有醫學、生物背景知識的同學選修,其它學科背景的學生亦能透過此線上課程拓展實際運用英語的能力。主教材的主題有急救醫療、運動傷害、公共衛生、外科手術、醫學科技等。 

Course Objective
 熟習常見疾病、主要人體構造與生理系統的英語辭彙與相關片語
 具體而清楚地詢問或表達身心上之不適症狀
 掌握詢問、聆聽、說明、描述、說服等常用英語句型
 增強一般性的英語閱讀能力與聽力
 提高吸收醫學知識的能力。
 
Course Requirement
學生必須於每階段完成線上教材,於階段考實展現學習成效。 
Student Workload (expected study time outside of class per week)
 
Office Hours
Note: 所有課程相關問題(授權碼、加退選、停修、成績等),請洽課程助教 pmai@ntu.edu.tw 
Designated reading
線上教材。 
References
1. Oxford English for Careers: Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2010)
2. Medicine Through the Ages: Modern Medicine (Capstone, 2013)
3. TED-Ed :Medicine
4. CNN News
 
Grading
   
Progress
Week
Date
Topic
第2週
  課程網站試用 
第3週
  Emergency medicine/A Transformation in Medicine 
第4週
  Accidents/How to grow a bone/CNN News 
第5週
  Sports medicine/How playing sports benefits your body and brain?/Technical Advances 
第6週
  Obstetrics/How do pregnancy tests work?/CNN News 
第7週
  Phase Exam I 
第8週
  Psychiatry/What is depression?/Fighting Disease 
第9週
  Geriatrics/What is Alzheimer’s disease?/ Public Health/CNN News 
第10週
  Dermatology/The science of skin color/The Effects of War 
第11週
  Surgery/How the rubber glove was invented/CNN News 
第12週
  Phase Exam II 
第13週
  Cardiology/What happens during a heart attack? 
第14週
  Respiratory medicine/How do the longs work? 
第15週
  Tropical diseases/What we know (and don’t know) about Ebola/ What are we now? 
第16週
  Global Health Care/Traditional and Alternative Medicine/CNN News 
第17週
  Phase Exam III