We describe the structure of a German-language corpus which contains a variety of medical text genres. Clinical documents (discharge summaries, pathology, histology and surgery reports) are distinguished from non-clinical ones (textbook articles and consumer health care documents from a Web portal). After introducing a medical extension of the general-language STTS tagset which accounts for uni...

background and purpose: multiple choice tests are the most common type of tests used in evaluating the general english knowledge of the students in most medical universities, however the efficacy of these tests are not examined precisely. we compare and examine the integrative tests and discrete point tests as   measures of the english language knowledge of medical students. methods: three test...

A foreign language coursebook can be seen as a flexible basis for teacher and student activity, creativity self-realization. This is possible when the humanized by teacher. The purpose of study to reveal ways humanize medical students means increase students' motivation engagement, provide conditions their personal development help them achieve high learning results. It stated that needs meet d...