A genre-based approach in ESP classes to teaching clinical communication focusing on breaking bad news to patients

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14640%2F24%3A00136344" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14640/24:00136344 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.muni.cz/discourse-and-interaction/article/view/38044" target="_blank" >https://journals.muni.cz/discourse-and-interaction/article/view/38044</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/DI2024-1-30" target="_blank" >10.5817/DI2024-1-30</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A genre-based approach in ESP classes to teaching clinical communication focusing on breaking bad news to patients

Original language description

Healthcare professionals have the responsibility to regularly convey difficult information such as unfavourable diagnoses, as well as adverse treatment outcomes. While this task can be uncomfortable, successfully carrying it out plays a crucial role in determining patient outcomes (Sweeney et al. 2011: 230). This necessity has led to the creation of evidence-based protocols such as SPIKES developed by Baile et al. (2000). The goal of the paper is to explore the suitability of the genre-based approach for the study and teaching of medical English, focusing on the integration of the selected clinical communication tool into the ESP classroom. As this study stems from the ESP practitioner’s experience and its outcomes will directly influence her future ESP classroom teaching, action research has been conducted. The feasibility of using an authentic clinical tool in an ESP lesson was assessed through a two-step methodology: i) devising an ESP task based on the SPIKES protocol, emphasizing linguistic elements, and ii) obtaining student feedback focusing on the perceived usefulness of the tool. Overall, the collected data indicate that students acknowledged the significance of effective clinical communication for successful therapeutic practice. However, given the fact that medical English is inconveniently scheduled in a pre-clinical phase of their curriculum, they also exhibited a certain level of hesitancy, unsurprisingly, when it came to readiness in handling serious communication scenarios.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60200 - Languages and Literature

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Discourse and Interaction

ISSN

1802-9930

e-ISSN

1805-952X

Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

30-50

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85197659276