Publication details
Exploring situational genres in medical discourse: A mediation-based approach for teaching first-year medical students.
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Effective spoken communication between doctors and patients is essential for providing quality healthcare. The presentation will explore some situational genres in doctor-patient communication that are taught to first-year medical students at the Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, using mediation activities and strategies as outlined in the CEFR Companion Volume 2020. Specifically, the focus will be on three oral situational genres: giving a diagnosis, encouraging a patient to make a health behaviour change, and breaking bad news to a terminally ill patient. For each genre, the presentation outlines a lesson sequence that employs relevant subgenres and authentic communication tools used in professional medical discourse. In class, each situational genre is practised through doctor-patient role-play and concludes with peer feedback and self-reflection activities. The self-reflection activity emphasizes the use of self-referential, metacognitive, and evaluative language by the doctor, which helps in building and consolidating their mediation competence. The presentation will include survey data regarding the attitudes of the target learner population towards the teaching of the situational genres and its anticipated impact on their future clinical practice. |