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Antony: Will you explain to me what you mean? The words “medical school”, is it a college or a kind of a university?
Kate: Well, it’s a higher educational establishment, which trains students to be doctors.
Antony: By the way, are graduates of Belarusian medical schools given a degree?
Kate: No, they are not. The Belarusian system of academic degrees is different. Our graduates are given diplomas which certify them as health care professionals.
Jane: What subjects do students study at your Medical University?
Dmitry: You know, it depends on the faculty and the year they are in.
Jane: Well, let’s say the second year of the Medical Faculty?
Dmitry: Second-year students study Anatomy, Physiology, Histology, Microbiology, Biochemistry and Philosophy.
Jane: And what about Latin and Foreign languages?
Dmitry: As for Latin, we study it in the first year. And we study one foreign language – English or German for three terms.
Ex.18 Read the text.
OUR UNIVERSITY
Every year many young people who are interested in medicine enter the Medical University and become students. Gomel Medical University is young. It was founded in 1990. There are four departments at the University. They are the Department of General Medicine, the Department of General Medicine and Diagnostics, the Preparatory Department and the Department of Medical Training for Foreign Students.
Students who passed their entrance examinations successfully study at different departments. Most of them get stipends. The students who have no relatives in Gomel live at the University hostels. There are many classrooms, lecture halls, laboratories, dissecting-rooms, a library with a reading hall at the disposal of the students. Every day they attend lectures and practical classes.
The course of studies lasts six years. During this period the students master the basis of theoretical and practical medicine. For two years they learn pre-clinical subjects, such as Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Human Anatomy and Histology.
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The students have clinical subjects from the third to the fifth year. During this period they learn to diagnose different diseases, to carry out laboratory analyses and to treat people for these diseases.
At the end of the third year the students have a six weeks’ practical training. They work as nurses. After the fourth year they have an eight weeks’ practical training at the therapeutic, surgical and other departments. After the fifth year the students have a practical training at a polyclinic.
The medical students do not only study well. They belong to different scientific circles and take an active part in the University social life.
