2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Mapping Communication and the Use of English within the Practice of Medicine

Research Project

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Project/Area Number	19K00823
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Review Section	Basic Section 02100:Foreign language education-related
Research Institution	Hiroshima University
Principal Investigator	Davies Walter 広島大学, 外国語教育研究センター, 准教授 (30448261)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	Fraser Simon 広島大学, 外国語教育研究センター, 教授 (10403510) 榎田一路広島大学, 外国語教育研究センター, 准教授 (20268668) 達川奎三広島文化学園大学, 学芸学部, 教授 (00290528) HIGA MARSHALL 広島大学, 外国語教育研究センター, 准教授 (50736923)
Project Period (FY)	2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Keywords	Corpus Analysis / Discourse Analysis / Documentary Analysis / Case Reports / Endoscopy / Pedagogic Materials
Outline of Final Research Achievements	The research involved a combination of interview-based research, discourse analysis, and corpus analysis combined with software design and development. Background interviews with medical staff were conducted at a hospital. Their most regular use of English was through journals. The research team analyzed 108 articles supplied by the university medical school. To further investigate communication in English regarding the practice of medicine, the team chose a particular specialism, endoscopy, to document the stages of colonoscopy and polypectomy and investigate the documents involved. The team also built recording equipment and trialed it at a local hospital. The team then worked on adapting pedagogic software for use by students and trialed it with two groups of students.
Free Research Field	English for Medical Purposes
Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements	The research has led to an improved understanding of the structure and wording of medical case reports and a greater insight into communication between medical staff and patients in an endoscopy department. Findings have been used in developing pedagogic materials for students,