Author : Barbara J. Hoekje
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 35,93 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 178052384X
International physicians in the United States now total more than 25 per cent of the physician workforce. This title offers a program for an English language curriculum that is specifically designed for the important and growing group of international medical professionals, with a focus on both instruction and assessment.
Author : Barbara Hoekje
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 28,52 MB
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 1780523858
English Language and the Medical Profession: Instructing and Assessing the Communication Skills of International Physicians is designed for a new context for English language teaching: the emerging, worldwide interest in English for medicine. The book offers a program for an English language curriculum that is specifically designed for the important and growing group of international medical professionals, with a focus on both instruction and assessment. International physicians in the United States now total more than 25 per cent of the physician workforce. Even subsequent to their passage of the clinical skills exam required for licensing and practice as physicians in U.S. hospitals, international physicians face communication challenges as first-year residents and may be referred to specialists for language and cultural issues. Advanced residents may face additional issues when they begin work as independent practitioners. This volume goes beyond existing texts in collecting the expertise of English language teaching and testing experts, medical residency supervisors, medical licensing, and exchange agencies in examining issues related to international physicians' performance as graduate students and doctors in hospitals and other settings. The contributors include specialists at the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates and doctors who supervise international medical residents as well as recognized ESP practitioners.
Author : Sarah Bigi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027249377
This volume addresses the issue of pragmatic meaning and interpretation in communication contexts regarding health and does so by combining a series of diverse and complementary approaches, which together highlight the relevance of successfully shared understanding to achieve more accessible, inclusive, and sustainable healthcare systems. The volume is divided into five thematic sections: 1) Analytical approaches to health communication, 2) Intercultural and mediated communication, 3) Negotiation and meaning construction, 4) Expertise and common ground, 5) Uncertainty and evasive answers, bringing together a group of top scholars on the much-debated issue of shared understanding both at the micro-level of dialogues between professionals and patients, and the macro-level of institutional communication. In the variety of its contributions, it represents an ambitious attempt at setting pragmatics at the core of healthcare communication research and practice, by combining conceptual reflections on core topics in the field of pragmatics (among which are speech acts, common ground, ambiguity, implicitness), with discourse and linguistic analysis of real-world examples exploring various problems in health communication.
Author : Heidi Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 883 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317932323
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication consists of forty chapters that provide a broad, comprehensive, and systematic overview of the role that linguistics plays within health communication research and its applications. The Handbook is divided into three sections: Individuals’ everyday health communication Health professionals’ communicative practices Patient-provider communication in interaction Special attention is given to cross-cutting themes, including the role of technology in health communication, narrative, and observations of authentic, naturally-occurring contexts. The chapters are written by international authorities representing a wide range of perspectives and approaches. Building on established work with cutting-edge studies on the changing health communication landscape, this volume will be an essential reference for all those involved in health communication and applied linguistics research and practice.
Author : Rick Iedema
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 30,14 MB
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1107699320
Written by prominent and internationally renowned scholars, Communicating Quality and Safety in Healthcare engages healthcare trainees from across medicine, nursing and allied health services in a comprehensive and probing discussion of the communication demands that confront today's healthcare teams.
Author : Judith Schühle
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 17,73 MB
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3839450322
In the age of globalization, the transnational dimension of sciences like medicine seems to be given. However, the agents connecting different parts of this transnational biomedical landscape have yet to receive their due attention. Situated at the intersection of contemporary debates as well as theories of medical anthropology and migration in the 21st century, this book explores the experiences of Nigerian trained physicians who migrated to the US and the UK within the last 40 years. By drawing on individual professional life stories, Judith Schühle illuminates how these physicians disconnect from and (re)connect to diverse local social and biomedical contexts, becoming established abroad while at the same time trying to influence health care services in Nigeria through transnational endeavors.
Author : C. Candlin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1137295562
The first book to bring together researchers and practitioners from a range of professions and institutions in exploring how people develop and may lose Trust through the ways in which they speak, write and act. Includes practical examples of how to conduct Trust-related research using tools from applied linguistics and discourse analysis.
Author : María de la O Hernández-López
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 21,76 MB
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004260161
In A Multidisciplinary Approach to Service Encounters, María de la O Hernández-López and Lucía Fernández-Amaya have joined marketing researchers and linguists to provide the tools to understand consumers’ communication in different professional settings. Service encounters have been widely studied due to the fact that the communicative exchange between the customer and the server is essential for the success of the service encounter itself. In this volume, the role of language, linguistics and communication is examined in an area of research that has traditionally been related to business and marketing. This is achieved through the presentation of works from a variety of perspectives that may help to advance in this particular context and also contribute to improving communication in service encounters.
Author : Marisa Cordella
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 23,19 MB
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 3030600718
This book explores the reality of ageing and old age from the perspectives of the individual and society. It emphasizes cross-cultural aspects of ageing and communication issues both within and across generations. The authors approach the understanding of ageing from a multi-disciplinary perspective, integrating biology, psychology, linguistics, sociology, and history. The book is organized as follows: historical and broader cross-cultural issues of ageing, followed by biomedical, psychological, social, and communicative aspects of ageing. The book concludes with an in-depth analysis of the existential dimension of ageing followed by an evolutionary perspective.
Author : Vijay Bhatia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317916433
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Professional Communication provides a broad coverage of the key areas where language and professional communication intersect and gives a comprehensive account of the field. The four main sections of the Handbook cover: Approaches to Professional Communication Practice Acquisition of Professional Competence Views from the Professions This invaluable reference book incorporates not only an historical view of the field, but also looks to possible future developments. Contributions from international scholars and practitioners, focusing on specific issues, explore the major approaches to professional communication and bring into focus recent research. This is the first handbook of language and professional communication to account for both pedagogic and practitioner perspectives and as such is an essential reference for postgraduate students and those researching and working in the areas of applied linguistics and professional communication.
