ENGLISH IN MEDICINE I

(COMPULSORY)
NUMBER OF CLASSES: 60 LECTURES: 30 PRACTICALS: 30
WINTER TERM
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Introduction to Medicine and Health; Articles (1)

Ethical Issues in Medicine; Articles (2)
Ethical Dilemmas in Medicine; Articles (3), Prefixes
Types of Illness; Suffixes
REVIEW I
Key Concepts and Terms in Social Medicine; Prefixes in Medicine
The Role of Hospitals in Health System Reforms; Suffixes in Medicine
Medical Statistics and Informatics; Nouns (Countable and Uncountable),
Quantifiers
9. REVIEW II
10.Structures and Systems in the Human Body; Uncommon Plurals
11.DNA, Gene Expression and Cell Reproduction; Adjectives and Adverbs
12.The Science of Genetics; Comparatives and Superlatives
13.REVIEW III
14.Final Test
15.Correction

SUMMER TERM
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Review
Describing Relations between Body Parts; Locative Adj. and Adv.
The Musculo-Skeletal System; Locative Verbs and Prepositions
The Integumentary System and the Immune System; Compound Adj.
REVIEW IV
The Nervous System; Present Participle Basics; Present Simple and
Present Continuous Tenses
7. The Endocrine System; Past Participle Basics, Present Perfect and
Continuous Tenses; Passive Forms of the Present Tenses
8. The Reproductive System; Past Simple and Past Continuous Tenses
9. REVIEW V
10.The Respiratory System; Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous Tenses;
Passive Forms of the Past Tenses

11.The Circulatory System; Future Simple and Continuous Tenses

12.The Digestive System; Future Perfect Tenses, Passive Forms of the Future
Tenses
13.The Urinary System; Passives and Impersonal 'It'
14.REVIEW VI - Final Test
15.Correction
2. Timetable. Classes are delivered every Wednesday. The faculty are Dr
Sofija Mii Kandija, Associate Professor of English and Biljana Vukevi
Lackovi, instructor of English.
3. The textbook:
Mii, S. English for Medical Purposes, Beograd: Medicinski fakultet
Univerziteta u Beogradu, Libri Medicorum, 1st edition, 2013
The reference books:
Mii, S. Medical Dictionary. English-Serbian Serbian-English. Beograd,
Zavod za udbenike, new edition, 2011
4. Test. Upon the completion of the course, the student takes a written test
based on the teaching material covered during the year. The mark is descriptive
Pass/Fail (the minimal number of points is 51 out of 100). The first
examination term when the test is to be taken is June 2014.
5. Attendance. The lectures are not compulsory, but the practicals are. The test
in English Language I has to be passed before the enrollment in the second
year.

Faculty:Dr Sofija Mii Kandija, Associate Professor of English

Biljana Vukevi Lackovi, Instructor in English
Danka Sinadinovi, Teaching Assistant

Chair of Department of Humanities

Prof. Dr Sofija Mii - Kandija
Email: sofija.micic@mfub.bg.ac.rs