Medical Dutch by Maryam Asoodar

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Maastricht University (UM) is an international university. Students from all over the world register at UM to follow their dreams. In particular, our medical courses are well known and on a yearly basis, we welcome many students to study medicine. Students know that they can do their bachelor of medicine in English. However, they would have to learn Dutch to continue their master’s in the hospital. Therefore, during their bachelor, students work on their language proficiency. They usually do a good job learning general Dutch.

To help them in this journey, SHE educators have come up with a plan to design and implement a course in the regular curriculum of medicine with a focus on medical Dutch.

Through this course, students will learn to combine their scientific knowledge with their knowledge on the Dutch language to perform authentic and simulated tasks. Maryam Asoodar, a researcher from SHE, is leading this project with the collaboration from SURF.nl, the UM language centre, and the UM skills lab at the faculty of Health Medicine and Life sciences (FHML).

Some material have been developed in the form of videos. The project is ongoing and there will be more to come.

Watch the video on Diabetes