Care of the ageing and patients with chronic diseases.

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• Care of the ageing and patients with chronic
  diseases.
• Mette Rønning and Kirsten Halse

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• The whole program lasts for 11 weeks for the
  Norwegian students and 12 weeks for the foreign
  students.
• Three weeks theoretical studies
• Eight weeks clinical studies

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• The course has been arranged for our
  international class
• consisting of 90 students
• Three foreign students attend the progam
• and
• one guest lecturer from the Netherlands

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Exchange students

• Dovile Petrulionyte (Lithuania), Iva Safrankova
  (Czeck Republic) Heidi Lehti (Finland). Photo
  Kari Kavlie.

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• Cees Salentijn from The Netherlands gave a
  lecture about caring for people with dementia.
  Photo Kari Kavlie.

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• The theoretical course started on 8th of March
  and lasted for three weeks
• The three foreign students had one introductory
  week

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• The content of the theoretical course consists of
• Lectures
• Tutorials
• Group activities
• Self studies

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• All students are divided into groups.
• The three foreign students were placed in one
  group.
• Within their groups the students worked on
  compulsory studies of special topics

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• Lectures
• Geriatric diseases
• Gerontology
• Long-term care
• Community health care

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• Each of the three foreign students was allocated
  their own tutor.
• The facilitators for the students in the clinical
  setting were offered an English course in
  advance.

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• Experiences so far.
• From the theoretical course
• Evaluation using a questionnaire
• Number of students present
• The students did not ask so many questions as
  they usually would.

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• Experiences so far.
• Clinical setting
• The students always work together with either
  their academic tutor or their facilitator.
• The students chose English speaking primary
  patients.
• The greatest challenge is to hold a successful
  conversation in English in the student group.

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• To obtain the ECTS for this period
• All compulsory studies must be approved
• In the clinical setting all the learning
  activities must be fullfilled

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• In March every year we plan to arrange the
  English course.
• Hope that more foreign students
• and guest lecturers will participate