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Professional Swedish for Physiotherapists, writing skills (1 cr)

Code: 7F00EB66-3005

General information


Enrolment period

18.11.2024 - 05.01.2025

Timing

02.01.2025 - 31.05.2025

Credits

1 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

  • 23FY

Objectives (course unit)

Students
- are able to write down in an interview information important to a person’s present and previous functionality and wellbeing,
- can instruct various clients in the most important therapeutical exercises in writing,
- are able to communicate in writing 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