word from SIOM

[Guest guest]

Craig Mitchell <cem

 

 

As far as Chinese at SIOM goes, the students have a Chinese class

every term from beginning to end. They go from very little knowledge of

Chinese to being able to extract information from

textbooks/journals/articles

in Chinese. They don't actually use Chinese textbooks in class, however

we try to connect the Chinese class to the internal medicine classes.

So, this term they are doing gynecology in internal medicine and we are

following that syllabus in Chinese class. So as they do menopause in the

internal medicine class, we read about it in Chinese. I am exposing them to

both modern journal articles, textbook style writing, and some

semi-classical

pieces, like Fu Qing-Zhu's gynecology. We emphasize extracting information

over actually doing a translation per se. Our goal is to get them to the

point

where they can make use of the information in clinic. It is challenging,

but

lots of fun.