Department of Languages












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            The main activity of the Department of Languages of the Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Král

            provide language teaching for specific purposes, especially Latin medical terminology, Eng
            purposes, and Czech language to foreigners. We provide specialized language training for u
            medical students across a range of master’s and bachelor’s programs. Therefore, our resear

            primarily related to language teaching for medical purposes and innovating related teachin
            study materials. We also focus on the linguistic study of medical terminology as such. Fur
            cooperate with other departments within our Faculty of Medicine, our University Hospital, 

            staff participates in domestic and international projects and both domestic and internatio
            conferences.







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            * Main research topics
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            • Didactics of Latin medical terminology (and implementation into teaching process with em

              empirical approach) PhDr. Pavel Nečas, Ph.D., Mgr. Klára Čebišová, Mgr. Eva Schánělová.
            • Medical terminology with a focus on anatomical nomenclature. History of medicine. PhDr. 
              Ph.D.

            • Activating teaching methods (especially their potential for vocabulary acquisition and c
              with patients) Mgr. Dagmar Vrběcká, Ph.D.






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            * Domestic cooperation
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            • Collaboration with the Institute of Non-Medical Studies as creators of the teaching mate
              Professional Latin Terminology and English for Medical Purposes for the new bachelor’s d
              Midwifery (Transformation for Universities at Charles University, NPO_UK_MSMT-16602/2022

            • Collaboration on mini-projects - with the Department of Medical Biophysics, where profes
              recordings could be made for the mini-projects Electronic Dictionary for the Czech Langu
              in the Hospital study materials; with the Department of Anatomy and with the Department 

              Medicine on the mini-project Creation of supplementary image materials for the Latin Med
              for Dentists study material.
            • Collaboration with the medical faculties of Charles University and MU in the creation, m

              piloting and subsequent sharing of materials and sharing of good practice (textbook Lati
              Terminology, Conference on Language Teaching at Medical Faculties II).






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            * International cooperation
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            • Projects with international participation CZKey and CZECHONLINE (Masaryk University - Ph
              Rešková, Ph.D., Fachhochschule Burgenland - Prof.in (FH) Mag. Ludmila Waschak, Universit
              Katowice - Dr. Małgorzata Kalita, Dr. Joanna Derdowska.

            • Cooperation with UCJ Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martina (Comenius University in Br
              preparation of teaching materials (PhDr. Mária Bujalková, CSc.).






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            * Achievements
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            • 2nd revised edition of the textbook Latin Medical Terminology and its extension to most 
              faculties in the Czech Republic.
            • Completion of the international project CZECHONLINE https://www.czechonline.org/. This i

              language portal supported by the European Union. The main output of the project is an e-
              platform for teaching Czech language to foreigners at A1 and A2 level, as well as medica
              business Czech, the content is accessible in 4 languages.

            • Cooperation with other departments in the development of a variety of mini-projects (Ins
              Anatomy, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Non-Medical Studies, Institute of 
              Biophysics, 1

              st Department of Internal Medicine - Cardioangiology).
            Dr. Nečas's monograph Ganz und Gar on the languages of the writer Jakub Deml from the pers
            psycholinguistics.

            Organization of the Czech & English Meets event in cooperation with the student organizati
            and Public Affairs and Communications Department, which aims to connect the Czech and fore
            programs.