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Professional Swedish for Physiotherapists, oral skills (2 cr)

Code: 7F00EB64-3004

General information


Enrolment period

01.11.2023 - 31.01.2024

Timing

02.01.2024 - 04.04.2024

Credits

2 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

TAMK Languages and Communication

Campus

TAMK Main Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Physiotherapy

Teachers

  • Sari Myllymäki

Person in charge

Sari Myllymäki

Groups

  • 22FY

Objectives (course unit)

Students
- are able to interview a person to find out information important to their present and previous functionality and wellbeing in order to succeed in physiotherapy and examinations,
- can instruct various clients in the most important therapeutical exercises,
- are able to communicate by speaking in a multi-professional work communities in situations common to physiotherapists,
- know the most important professional vocabulary of their field,
- know how to find information from professional and research sources and use that to improve their expertise,
- can maintain, develop and evaluate their language skills and language learning skills as well as adopt language skills as a part of their professional identities.

Content (course unit)

- interview
- guidance and advice situations
- symptoms and treatment of pain and various conditions
- important physiotherapy vocabulary
- important anatomical vocabulary
- authentic texts from the students’ own field

Assessment scale

0-5