ECTS
ECTS Course Catalogue
Course details
Course code: VVSS00210o12Semester: 2012/2013 winter
Name: Latin
Major: Veterinary Medicine
Study Type: one cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 0 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: mgr Eugeniusz Biały
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: The students can read, understand and analyse medical texts. Obtained knowledge helps to learn clinical subjects
Competences: The students will be able to write a prescription using correct Latin grammar and to form diagnostic terms, esp. inflammations.
Prerequisites: None.
Course content: Students will be taught grammar and vocabulary with regards to medical terms. Grammar includes declinations of nouns and adjectives, conjugations, adverbs and numerals, prefixes and suffixes. Proverbs and sayings will also be included in the teachings. Texts in the course book contain materials covering medical terminology.
Recommended literature: Witold Fałdrowicz, Zofia Grech Żmijewska, „Lingua Latina pro usu medico” PZWL Warszawa, 2004 Course book: F. Kinchin Smith, „Latin”, New York, David Mc Kay Company Collins Dictionary “Medicine” by Robert M. Youngson, Harper Collins Publishers, Glasgow 1999 Course book: Patterson S.R. Thompson L.S.:”Medical terminology from greek and Latin”, The Whitston Publishing Company, Troy, NY 1996, Davis Jones Betty: Delmar’s Comprehensive Medical Terminology, CA competency based Approach, Delmar Publishers, 1999
Assessment methods: Continuous assessment + final test. Minimum knowledge requires for passing: 60%.
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