Medical French

Practical information

Course hours

20+eindtest

Prices		Summer
Commercial student This is the standard price for this language course. If you are not entitled to a discount, this is the price you will need to pay.		€470
Student UGent You are registered as a UGent student and you take a course this academic year (or the summer before). Not registered yet? Check out the FAQ discount for future UGent students. PhD students benefit from the staff rate.		€295
Scholarship student UGent You are registered as a UGent student and you have a scholarship from the Flemish Community this academic year. Send us a proof of your scholarship via this form, together with your registration.		€255
Incoming exchange student UGent You are registered as an incoming exchange student of UGent. You will receive an extra discount for a Dutch course. For more info, see the FAQ discount for incoming exchange students.		€295
Outgoing exchange student UGent As an outgoing exchange student of UGent you receive an extra discount. You pay the student fee first and after your departure (after you upload the confirmation of arrival) your discount will be settled automatically.		€155
Outgoing exchange scholarship student UGent		€140
Staff UGent and UZ Gent / PhD student As a staff member of UGent, you receive a discount, independent of the paying method used for the course. PhD students fall under this category as well.		€380

Hours per week

10x2 + 1x2

8x2,5 + 1x2

Books by

Standaard Boekhandel Studentshop (Bagattenstraat 51, Gent) – 10 % korting / discount

For who?

Students of Medicine and Health Sciences, and medical professionals.

Objectives and content

This course is aimed at doctors (in training) who want to improve their French language proficiency, as needed on the job. The course mainly focuses on expanding your vocabulary range and on improving your ability to communicate with colleagues and patients in French.

You build a broad range of specific medical vocabulary (anatomy, diseases, treatments, etc.) by means of extensive vocabulary lists and exercises. From time to time, listening exercises will also be included. The conversational situations used during these sessions concern the professional communication between healthcare providers/patients and among the healthcare providers themselves, which try to approach reality as much as possible. You will also learn specific grammatical items which are important in these settings and relationships (question/answer; instructions; wish and subjunctive; a necessity or a feeling; comparisons; time indicators, etc.). In class and in the course materials, we use a contrastive approach (Dutch - French). For this reason the course targets native speakers (or near native speakers) of Dutch.

Required prior knowledge

You have good practical and grammatical knowledge of French (level B2 = secondary school level). Would you like to test your level? You can complete the online self-test for French to check whether your level matches the level of the course Practical French 3. If that is the case, you can register for this course. Please note that you need sufficient prior knowledge related to the causes, symptoms and treatments of (relatively) common conditions. For this reason, this course is not ideal for medicine students who have not yet completed the first two bachelor years.

The support language for this course is Dutch.

Tests

There is a final test.

Course materials

This course is extra-curricular, which means no credits can be given.

For this course, you need to buy this course book: Weylandt, E., Noë, N. (2019): Au secours! Mon patient parle français, Gent : Academia Press.

Are you already registered for this course? Check out our FAQ ‘What to do after my registration?’.

Schedule and subscribe

It is not yet possible to register for this course. Keep an eye on our website for new course dates

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