Teaching Medical English. A Model Curriculum for Medical English Teaching in Medical Schools / 医学教育

ABSTRACT

The working group to improve foreign language education in medical schools established in 1994 and chaired by K. Uemura, M.D. here proposes a model curriculum for teaching useful English in medical schools at three levels. The major objectives are listening, speaking, rapid reading, and sentence structuring including paragraphing for junior (1st & 2nd yrs) students, reading medical papers and charts in English, structures of medical scientific papers, and listening to medical English for middleclass (3rd & 4th yrs) students, and writing and orally presenting papers in English on given medical subjects are for senior (5th & 6th yrs) students.