Andrew Daniels Programme Coordinator Extension: 2157 Room: 1014 E-mail: andrewd@squ.edu.om It is generally accepted that the College of Medicine is the most difficult of all colleges at SQU for incoming students to gain admittance—for perhaps obvious reasons. Once admitted, the nation's future doctors and medical professionals certainly must excel at their various studies and training, continually meeting the rigorous demands of the college—and do it in the foreign language of English—from the very start. This is no less true for them later on, in the two upper-level (credit) courses offered by the Language Centre's Medicine programme.  Basic Syllabus Outline LANC0501 General theme-based work from a variety of commercial and in-house texts.   Writing:         Disease Profiles        Describing a Life-cycle  Reading:         History of Medicine        General Anatomy (common terms)        Common Symptoms and Cures        Common Diseases and Ailments        Moodle-based reading and quizzes on a variety of medical topics        General reading (readers)     Listening:          a variety of general topics (including medical topics) Speaking:          Formal presentations – Disease Profiles LANC0601 General theme-based work from a variety of commercial and in-house texts.  Writing:         Graphs: comparing and contrasting (2-lined graph with history)        Paraphrasing  Reading:          What do doctors do?         The Nursing Profession         Other Medical Specialties         Behind the Scenes in a Hospital         Moodle-based reading and quizzes on a variety of medical topics          General reading (readers)     Listening:           A variety of general topics (including medical topics)  Speaking:           Formal presentations – Medical Specialties  LANC2030/2032 : ENGLISH FOR MEDICINE 1 Reading and Research Skills Selected Paraphrasing Medical Terminology Course: (mostly self-study and computer-based)  Basic Word Structure  Organisation of the Body  Suffixes  Body Systems 2 x Formal Presentations: Individual - on any medical topic LANC2031 : ENGLISH FOR MEDICINE 2 Examining journal articles Writing journal abstracts (200 words) Researching for and writing academic essays (600 – 800 words) Medical Terminology Course: (mostly self-study and computer-based)  Prefixes  Medical Specialists  Classes of Drugs  Diagnostic Tests and Procedures  Pharmacology Formal Presentations: small group presentations on given medical topic        small group presentations on self-chosen medical topic        seminar work   LANC2033 : ACADEMIC ENGLISH FOR MEDICINE Reading and Research Skills Examining journal articles Selected Paraphrasing Writing journal abstracts (200 words) Medical Terminology Course: (mostly self-study and computer-based)    Basic Word Structure  Organisation of the Body  Suffixes  Body Systems  Prefixes  Medical Specialists  Pharmacology Formal Presentations: small group presentations on given medical topics.                                 small group presentations on self-chosen medical topics.