There are three teachers in TCAL Teaching & Research Office for Medical Chinese master in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics and International Education of Chinese Language. One of the teachers has studied in USA.

Medical Chinese specifically designed for overseas students in Jinzhou Medical University for undergraduate medical education, is used to introduce medical Chinese words and commonly-used medical Chinese expressions. The course emphasis is on the connection and transition of both language and professional knowledge of medicine through doing many forms of practice to enhance listening and speaking skills.

We have varied forms of teaching methods: lecture with power point presentations, use of VCD/DVD for visual material, and the student-centered method, such as interactive group work, use of case studies, role plays and discussion groups and so on.

CLASS HOURS

It takes 312 teaching hours to study this course. The study of theory needs 284 teaching hours and the study of experimental skill needs 28 teaching hours.

We use the Practical Medical Chinese (Preclinical Ⅰ) , Practical Medical Chinese (Preclinical Ⅱ), Practical Medical Chinese (Preclinical Ⅲ), Practical Medical Chinese (Preclinical Ⅳ), Practical Medical Chinese(Clinical·Surgery),  Practical Medical Chinese(Clinical·Internal Medicine), published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, as the textbooks, and it takes totally 312 teaching hours and starts to learn from the 5th to 9th semester.

LEARNING TARGETS

This unit of study aims to provide a basis for not only the different cases in different departments of out-patient and in-patient service in hospital, but also the different themes of experiments and practices in classes. The objectives of the unit of study are to introduce how to communicate in specific medical situation.

This unit of study aims to visit the hospital and practice the diagnosis of the SP through which to enhance students’ listening and speaking skills of medical Chinese.

The objectives of the unit of study are to enable the students to master about 500 Chinese medical words, about 400 most commonly-used medical communication expressions, so as to communicate and take practice in a hospital in Chinese effectively and efficiently.

TEXTBOOK

We use the Practical Medical Chinese (Preclinical I) and Practical Medical Chinese (Preclinical II), published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, as the textbooks, and it takes totally 136 teaching hours and starts to learn from the 5th to 6th semester.