ESL medical students' oral proficiency - Do they need help?

English proficiency is no longer a choice but a tool for survival for medical students who wish to practise medicine in the global working environment of today. Of the many skills that they are required to master, oral communication skills are of paramount importance. The pressure on medical student...

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Main Authors:	Abdul Malik, Faridah, Othman, Khairiah
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2017
Subjects:	L Education (General)
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/62059/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/62059/1/ICOED%202017.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/62059/7/62059-%20ESL%20Medical%20Students%27%20Oral%20Proficiency.pdf

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spelling	iium-620592018-02-22T06:45:55Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/62059/ ESL medical students' oral proficiency - Do they need help? Abdul Malik, Faridah Othman, Khairiah L Education (General) English proficiency is no longer a choice but a tool for survival for medical students who wish to practise medicine in the global working environment of today. Of the many skills that they are required to master, oral communication skills are of paramount importance. The pressure on medical students to interact effectively in oral form is immense in addition to the need to be knowledgeable on the content. Inability to converse well in English has important implications for their learning and could lead to clinically sub-par medical graduates in the future. This study investigates the importance of English oral skills for studies and future career as perceived by the clinical students and to assess the extent of problems that they faced when trying to communicate with their peers, subordinates and superiors especially in the formative clinical years. The data were collected via a structured questionnaire administered to 256 medical students who were in their clinical years. The findings of this study can act as a set of guidelines to be considered when developing programmes to enhance the English oral skills of these medical students. 2017 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/62059/1/ICOED%202017.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/62059/7/62059-%20ESL%20Medical%20Students%27%20Oral%20Proficiency.pdf Abdul Malik, Faridah and Othman, Khairiah (2017) ESL medical students' oral proficiency - Do they need help? In: 3rd International Conference on Education (ICOED) 2017, 7th - 9th November 2017, Melaka. (Unpublished)
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description	English proficiency is no longer a choice but a tool for survival for medical students who wish to practise medicine in the global working environment of today. Of the many skills that they are required to master, oral communication skills are of paramount importance. The pressure on medical students to interact effectively in oral form is immense in addition to the need to be knowledgeable on the content. Inability to converse well in English has important implications for their learning and could lead to clinically sub-par medical graduates in the future. This study investigates the importance of English oral skills for studies and future career as perceived by the clinical students and to assess the extent of problems that they faced when trying to communicate with their peers, subordinates and superiors especially in the formative clinical years. The data were collected via a structured questionnaire administered to 256 medical students who were in their clinical years. The findings of this study can act as a set of guidelines to be considered when developing programmes to enhance the English oral skills of these medical students.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Abdul Malik, Faridah Othman, Khairiah
author_facet	Abdul Malik, Faridah Othman, Khairiah
author_sort	Abdul Malik, Faridah
title	ESL medical students' oral proficiency - Do they need help?
title_short	ESL medical students' oral proficiency - Do they need help?
title_full	ESL medical students' oral proficiency - Do they need help?
title_fullStr	ESL medical students' oral proficiency - Do they need help?
title_full_unstemmed	ESL medical students' oral proficiency - Do they need help?
title_sort	esl medical students' oral proficiency - do they need help?
publishDate	2017
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/62059/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/62059/1/ICOED%202017.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/62059/7/62059-%20ESL%20Medical%20Students%27%20Oral%20Proficiency.pdf
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ESL medical students' oral proficiency - Do they need help?

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