MAL0025 - Basic Medical Maltese for the Healthcare Professions 2

MQF Level

Duration and Credits

Semester 2

Not Applicable

Mode of Study

Part-Time Day

This study-unit builds on MAL0019 Basic Medical Maltese for the Healthcare Professions 1, and is partly a reinforcement of its content. It therefore focuses on the necessary skills to communicate effectively in Maltese with patients and their relatives and with colleagues in a medical environment.

The study-unit, however, exposes the participants to basic Maltese grammar, more specific anatomical terminology, doctor-patient communication and understanding patients鈥� symptoms, prescribing medicines and interacting in a medical setting. Students will have the opportunity to extend their communication skills in Maltese through case studies, role-play and medical conversations.

Main Reading List

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Study-unit Aims

The aim of this study-unit is to help foreign healthcare professionals consolidate basic Maltese grammar and acquire sufficient medical terminology in Maltese in order to enable them to communicate efficiently in the local healthcare setting.

Learning Outcomes: Knowledge and Understanding

By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

communicate in basic Maltese;
engage in basic conversation with patients and medical colleagues;
know the meaning of basic medical terminology and expressions in Maltese.

Learning Outcomes: Skills

By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

understand patients' general symptoms expressed in Maltese;
ask simple questions typically used in the Maltese medical setting;
prescribe medicine and explain its posology in simple clear Maltese.

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