Expanding a Third-Year Medical English Curriculum at a Japanese National University

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  • 日本の国立大学における医学部3年生英語カリキュラムの拡張

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In this article, the authors consider how a third-year medical English curriculum could be expanded to incorporate materials on cases and case reports, then discuss how further research and development could be oriented towards the activities of their university hospital. In the article the links between the two locations,the hospital and the campus, are discussed. In relation to research on case reports, the authors argue that the most useful section of a case report for third-year students is the case presentation, and that materials based on usual cases offer more possibilities at the level of learning in the third year of medical studies. Using Nation and Newton’s ideas on meaning-focused input, language focus, and meaning-focused output, the authors consider how hypothetical cases and tasks can be oriented towards reading and writing, and how tasks can be designed to focus on key structuring phrases in case presentations. Concerning full case reports, the authors argue that materials are more likely to be oriented towards reading and language focus, but that writing can be used in tasks involving abstracts, in which students summarize the body of a case report. Regarding the hospital itself, the authors argue that research on its activities could be used to create dual-use audiovisual materials. These could both aid language learning for students and also aid medical staff when they provide explanations of processes and procedures for patients.

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