Greek and Latin medical terminology instruction in programmes of general medicine at medical schools in the Czech Republic and abroad
Abstract
The thesis seeks to provide a systematic description of the Greek and Latin medical terminology instruction at Czech and foreign medical schools. Its main objective is to build a platform for implementations of instructional innovations.
In the first part of the thesis the medical terminology instruction in the Czech Republic is contextualized by giving a historical overview of development of medical terminology and dealing with origins of its instruction at the Faculty of General Medicine in Prague. The view of a present state of the instruction is completed by a profile of a typical medical student, which is based on the questionnaire.
The next part of the thesis consists of detailed content analyses of selected Czech and foreign textbooks and their comparison. Based upon these analyses, an original typology of instructional models is set up which can be considered to be the most important theoretical outcome of the thesis.
The typology is subsequently used as a tool for description of teaching medical terminology in Austria, Germany, United States, Canada, Croatia and Bulgaria. The descriptions of particular instructional systems and their realizations reveal other specific features of particular models.
The final part of the thesis summarizes the main issues and problems in medical terminology instruction in the Czech Republic and presents an apt proposal of innovative instructional programme. This is the most important practical outcome of the thesis.