Annotation
Introduction to medical and subsidiary terms. The preclinical and clinical topics - histology, human anatomy, physiology, haematology, pediatrics. Conversation training - telling basic history topics and the character of pain. Students contributions about new medical topics from the net-infobasis (e.g. zdf.de, yahoo.health, medline) and medical journals. Grammar revision using standard testing methods (Langenscheidt). A survey of medical abbreviations.
Introduction to basic terminology of surgery, dentistry (prosthetic appliances, propedeutics), anaesthesiology and obstetrics. First aid, the most important health organizations (Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, WHO). Conversation training concerning personal and family history, instructions during taking the history. Students regularly work with the Internet (presenting medical news and discoveries and teaching fellow-students new terms). Grammar revision using Langenscheidt standard testing. Supplemented by frequently used abbreviations.