Coordinator: Dr. Letty Chan
Course Description
This course aims to improve students’ academic and communication skills for meeting the demands of Nursing Studies. Students will learn to apply strategies for medical vocabulary development, write a reflective essay using appropriate language and style, and conduct research on a health-related topic and present the findings in an oral presentation. Assessment is wholly by coursework.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- Recognize medical word elements; analyze, build and define medical terms
- Organise and deliver a presentation that engages the audience
- Describe, analyze and reflect on experiences with accurate and appropriate language in reflective writing, and structure the piece of writing within a given framework
Strategies
- medical terminology learning and review
- practice in speaking skills
- analysis of reflective writing skills
- peer evaluation of written assignment
- group collaboration in reearch and discussion
Assessment Methods
(with breakdown of percentage weighting of the various methods)
- Tests (35%)
- Oral Presentations (35%)
- Essays (30%)