Role-Playing: Doctor's Assistant and Patient Interaction

Role-Playing: Doctor's Assistant and Patient Interaction

Role-Playing: Doctor's Assistant and Patient Interaction

Learning Objectives

At the end of the lesson you will be able to role-play a patient accurately providing personal details and symptoms to a doctor's assistant. At the end of the lesson you will be able to role-play a doctor's assistant collecting patient information for a file.

What do you already know about doctor's assistant and patient interactions?

Understanding the context of the role-play activity

Role-play as a method of training, simulating real-life interactions.

Learning objectives of the role-play exercise

Developing communication skills for medical issues and data collection.

Role-play activity structure

Students take turns playing doctor's assistant and patient based on speaking cards.

Patient and doctor dialogue

Subtask 1: Listen to What’s Wrong with Me? and read along.

Subtask 2: Find the answers to the following questions as fast as possible.

How does Dr Laghari ask whether Yutika often has the same complaints?

How does Dr Laghari say what he thinks is going on with Yutika?

How does Dr Laghari ask whether Arush suffers from these complaints more often?

Filling out a patient file

Collecting personal and medical information about a patient.

Have a look at the grammar box on the future. Can you finish the sentences using will / 'll or going to?

Ex. 6 p. 125

Definition List

Role-play: A training method in which participants simulate characters and scenarios to practice real-life interactions. Patient file: A document containing personal and medical information about a patient. Speaking card: A tool used in role-play exercises containing information that the participant must convey during the interaction.

Post-task

Discuss with your partner how the role-play went.

What did you find easy? What was challenging?

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.