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AI Symposium 2025 | Meet the speakers: Ioana Cretu, Neil Harris EALTHY & SLC

February 2025 | Events

By giving examples from their practice with OET candidates, Ioana and Neil aim to encourage both teachers and learners to benefit from using AI tools rather than condemning and avoiding it when enhancing writing competence.

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AI Symposium 2025 | Meet the speakers: Irena Aleksić-Hajduković, Ana Mužar EALTHY & SLC

February 2025 | Events

This research-based session will offer practical suggestions for incorporating GenAI and DDL for designing activities and lesson plans aimed at enhancing teaching of medical and academic collocations.

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AI Symposium 2025 | Meet the speakers: Marwa Alnajjar, Shooq Altamimi, Paula Canales EALTHY & SLC

February 2025 | Events

This presentation focuses on a five-phase project that utilised Generative AI (GenAI) to create tailored ESP listening materials. Addressing the limitations of current resources, three lecturers leveraged ChatGPT and text-to-audio generators to create listening scripts, questions, and audio for an English for Nursing module.

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AI Symposium 2025 | Meet the speaker: Veronika Glogarová EALTHY & SLC

January 2025 | Events

The research explores the perspectives of PhD medical students on using AI tools in their academic work. During her talk Veronika will discuss the issues around ensuring academic integrity, (non)understanding the overall context and insufficient training provided to educators and students.

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AI Symposium 2025 | Meet the Keynote Speakers EALTHY & SLC

January 2025 | Events

This plenary session explores the novel role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in improving communication skills among healthcare professionals. Emphasising the critical importance of empathy in patient interactions, the session highlights how AI patient simulations can provide realistic practice scenarios.

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Writing for Publication course EALTHY & SLC

December 2024 | Events

Writing for Publication consists of 30 hours of digital study that take researchers through the publishing process in clearly defined steps, covering the language, conventions and process – from planning through to submission, with multiple examples and practical writing tasks.

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AI Symposium 2025 | Call for Proposals EALTHY & Specialist Language Courses

November 2024 | Events

Join us for EALTHY’s virtual symposium, where we’ll dedicate the entire day to discussions on the role of AI in healthcare communication and education. Both registration and call for proposals are open now!

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Webinar | When Is a Patient Not a Patient EALTHY & Specialist Language Courses

November 2024

In this talk, we’ll compare the experience of two different communities, considering the impact of ‘person-first language’ on certain patient groups. We´ll discuss the importance of using sensitive language when communicating with patients, emphasizing the need to avoid labelling them by their disease or disability.

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Webinar | Designing Online Materials for Today’s Learners – five key principle EALTHY & Specialist Language Courses

October 2024 | Webinar

This talk looks at how to address these issues by articulating five key principles of design that, when applied, will not only enable teachers to develop materials that support and engage their learners, but also use them effectively in practice.

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