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Webinar Summary | The Roles of a Pharmacist EALTHY

March 2023 | Discussion

In this article, you will read about the main responsibilities, requirements, and skills of a pharmacist as defined by the NHS and General Pharmaceutical Council, and the roles in a hospital and commercial pharmacies in European countries compared to the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In the second part, we provide a summary of the personal experience of Katie Booth, interviewed by Virginia Allum in the webinar. They discussed Katie´s career path, the roles she accepted, and her reflections on how a pharmacist-patient relationship and the language they use have changed in recent years.

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Examining the Linguistic Features of Adherent and Non-adherent People with Diabetes Using Multidimensional Analysis EALTHY

February 2023 | Research summary

Using multidimensional analysis, this study analyzed talk to compare linguistic features used by adherent and non-adherent individuals with diabetes.

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Webinar: How Has the Language of Pharmacy Changed? EALTHY & Specialist Language Courses

January 2023 | Webinar

Experts Virginia Allum and Katie Booth are giving a free webinar on How the language of Pharmacy has changed.

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Scaffolding L2 Academic Reading and Self-Regulation Through Task and Feedback EALTHY

January 2023 | Research summary

Research has shown that classroom-based reading strategy training does not necessarily result in effective, self-regulated reading behaviours when students engage with authentic academic reading in their own study contexts.

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Webinar: Developing a Medical Ethics Reasoning Skills Course EALTHY & Specialist Language Courses

December 2022 | Webinar

Alan Simpson was a speaker at the 5th English for Healthcare Conference. In the webinar, he will share the students’ start-of-life, therapeutic relationship, end-of-life, genetics and human research opinions, reflections and presentations.

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Webinar Summary: Cognitive Linguistic Difficulties in Adults with Long COVID EALTHY

December 2022 | Webinar

Louise Cummings, Professor of Clinical Linguistics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in China, presented results and implications of her research.

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Webinar Summary: Cognitive Linguistic Difficulties in Adults with Long COVID EALTHY

December 2022 | Discussion

Louise Cummings, Professor of Clinical Linguistics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in China, presented results and implications of her research. She surveyed the nature of cognitive-linguistic difficulties by assessing language communication skills of 92 adults with Long COVID Syndrome, and healthy adults. In her webinar, Louise described manifestations of cognitive-linguistic difficulties, referred to as “brain fog”, which were reported by the participants.

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What´s New in the Member Area, November 14-20 EALTHY

November 2022 | EALTHY Blog

You will find new lesson plans, articles on translation, and information about an upcoming webinar.

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A literature Review: Teaching Medical Knowledge to Non-medical Students and Medical Translators EALTHY

November 2022 | Article

In this article, we present the rationales behind the choice of approaches to teaching medical knowledge and terminology to non-medical students in university ESP (English for Specific Purposes) courses of medical English.

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