Anatomy and Physiology for English Language Learners

Course Description

This course can be used by students who already hold nursing or allied health degrees in their countries and are preparing to take certification examinations in the United States of America!

This course will help you understand the language, study skills and cultural specific to US medical studies.

Introduction:

Anatomy and Physiology for English Language Learners is an introductory course to Anatomy and Physiology. The purpose of this course is to present content for sciences and language skills which are necessary for success in academic science courses such as Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology.

This course is designed for students who are at high-intermediate level of English. It will prepare English language learners for success in future nursing and allied health prerequisite courses.

How will you learn?

• A brief introduction to the topics
• Anatomy and physiology content with level appropriate readings
• Comprehension checks

What skills will be polished ?

• Language Skills – describing organization and function, asking for clarification, stating degree of understanding, describing location and sequence, stating and asking about differences, explaining cause and effect, defining terms, describing relationships and connections, describing a process, asking and answering hypothetical questions
• Study Skills – creating good study habits, studying with diagrams, active reading, using reference sources, concept maps, summarizing information, categorizing information and then putting it all together
• Cultural Focus – preparing for the future, the use of touch to comfort, informality in forms of address, alternative healing, folk medicine, making progress in health care, direct communication, spiritual forces in healing, the economy of health care, hierarchy of age and gender, confidentiality and privacy, discussing the reproductive system with patients

This course will be helpful for:

Students who already hold allied health degrees in their countries and are preparing to take certification examinations in the United States of America

What’s in the course:

• 12 LIVE interactive online classes - 90 minutes per class
• Course timings: Monday to Saturday between 10 AM to 8 PM (Italy time)
• Access to class recordings
• Online access to study material
• 4 online tests to evaluate your performance

Course outline:

Terminology and Examples will be picked from :

• The Integumentry System
• The Skeletal System
• The Muscular System
• The Nervous System
• The Digestive System
• Blood and Body Defenses
• The Cardiovascular System
• The Respiratory System
• The Urinary System
• The Reproductive System

About course instructor:

Cynthia Rowley is a professional native English teacher who has been helping students to learn English language since 1998. She is qualified to teach Anatomy and Physiology to students. She obtained her Foreign Language Bachelor's Degree from NYU Steinhart, New York, United States in 1998. Cynthia finds teaching online fun and enjoyable as she loves to meet people from all over the world. Student success is what drives her to keep teaching. She lives in Italy.