Teaching English for Medical Academic Purposes at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade, Serbia

Abstract

The Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade, Serbia, has a long tradition of learning and teaching English for Medical Academic Purposes (EMAP). EMAP is considered extremely important for our medical students' academic and professional life. Our EMAP syllabus is based on an integrated approach to the four language skills (reading, listening, speaking, and writing), although writing is emphasised as the most demanding and valuable skill.

Keywords:

• English
• Medical students
• Syllabus
• Language skills
• Writing

Medical Writing Jumble #7

1.	Re-arrange the jumbled letters to get a meaningful word related to medical writing.
2.	Next, take the circled letters from each word and make another word that will answer the riddle in the cartoon. Hint: The answer is probably a pun.
3.	Use British English.

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Notes on contributors

Danka Sinadinović

Danka Sinadinović is a Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology in 2001 and worked as an English instructor at the Institute for Foreign Languages for 10 years. She has published several papers and presented at various national and international linguistic conferences. She is currently working on her PhD thesis.

Sofija Mićić

Sofija Mićić is an Associate Professor of English at the Faculty of Medicinein Belgrade, a Fulbright Scholar, a Salzburg Seminar Fellow, and a Morley Scholar. She is an editor of the column ‘Language of Medicine’ in the Serbian Archives of Medicine and was also an English Language Editor for the journal. Sofija was an EMWA EPDC member from 2007 to 2009 and has led the EMWA Advanced Workshop ‘Language and Writing’ since 2007. Dr Mićić has been involved in the development of the international project on standardization of the English for Medical Purposes test (sTANDEM). Her latest book, co-authored with Zoran Čajka, MA, is entitled Principles of Listening Comprehension in Language Learning.