Teachers’ and Students’ Perceptions about the Medical English Program at Hai Phong University of Medicine and Pharmacy

Abstract

The innovative content-based Medical English Program has been applied at Hai Phong University of Medicine and Pharmacy since the academic year 2018-2019. This is a part of the Health Professional Education and Training for Health System Reforms Project (HPET). It is “innovative” in the sense that it is the first time the syllabus of our university’s medical English program has been aligned with the content subjects that medical students study with their content teachers. This study is conducted to initially evaluate the results of this content-based Medical English Program. The research method is a questionnaire survey among 353 second-year students who have just completed a content-based medical English course. Another survey is conducted among 10 lecturers from English Department who have just finished teaching this course. The results show that the students and the lecturers have positive comments on the innovative content-based Medical English Program in terms of training needs, learning objectives, assessment format, teaching materials, and teaching activities