日本医疗口译考试对医学类院校公共外语课程设置的启示

Enlightenment of Japanese Medical Interpretation Tests on the Curriculum of Public Foreign Language Courses in Medical Colleges and Universities

随着全球化的日益发展,我国的医疗工作者越来越多地参与到国际医疗工作之中,如何通过医学类院校的公共外语课程,培养将来的医务工作者具有高水平外语能力成为当务之急。日本两项主要的医疗口译考试,“医疗口译技能检定考试”和“医疗口译技能认定考试”,均以厚生劳动省颁布的《医疗口译培养大纲基准》为依据举行。这两项考试对于我国医学类院校公共外语课程设置具有积极意义与作用,外语课程可以探讨从课程目标、课程内容、课程模式、课程评价四个方面加以借鉴。

With the development of globalization,China’s medical workers are more and more involved in international medical work.How to train future medical workers with high-level foreign language skills through the public foreign language courses of medical colleges and universities become top priority.The two major medical interpretation tests in Japan,the“Medical Interpretation Skills Test”and the“Medical Interpretation Skills Certification Test”are held on the basis of the Medical Interpretation Training Standards issued by Japan MHLW(Ministry of Health,Labor and Welfare).These two tests have positive significance and effect on the curriculum setting of public foreign language courses in medical colleges and universities in China.Foreign language courses can be used for reference from the four aspects of course goals,course content,course mode,and course evaluation.