Sabbour S M, Dewedar S A, Kandil S K
Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
East Mediterr Health J. 2012 Dec 4;16(12):1263-71. doi: 10.26719/2010.16.12.1263.
Students and staff perspectives on language barriers in medical education in Egypt and their attitude towards Arabization of the medical curriculum were explored in a questionnaire survey of 400 medical students and 150 staff members. Many students (56.3%) did not consider learning medicine in English an obstacle, and 44.5% of staff considered it an obstacle only in the 1st year of medical school. Many other barriers to learning other than language were mentioned. However, 44.8% of students translated English terms to Arabic to facilitate studying and 70.6% of students in their clinical study years would prefer to learn patient history-taking in Arabic. While Arabization in general was strongly declined, teaching in Arabic language was suggested as appropriate in some specialties.
通过对400名医学生和150名工作人员进行问卷调查,探讨了埃及医学教育中语言障碍方面学生和工作人员的观点以及他们对医学课程阿拉伯语化的态度。许多学生(56.3%)不认为用英语学习医学是障碍,44.5%的工作人员仅认为在医学院第一年这是障碍。还提到了许多除语言之外的其他学习障碍。然而,44.8%的学生将英语术语翻译成阿拉伯语以方便学习,70.6%处于临床学习阶段的学生更愿意用阿拉伯语学习采集患者病史。虽然总体上强烈反对阿拉伯语化,但建议在某些专业中采用阿拉伯语教学。