Work in pairs. Make a list of 4-5 differences in the systems of pharmacist education in Russia and abroad.

Read the dialogue and tell what Sasha and Marina are talking about:

Marina: Hello, Sasha! Where are you going?

Sasha: I'm going to the institute library. I'd like to take some books for my report in histology next week. Come with me.

Marina: No, I can't. I'll go to the library after the lecture on microbiology.

Sasha: Do you know that the attendance of lectures in the Oxford Medical School is free?

Marina: But we are not in Oxford. Who told you that?

Sasha: Our English teacher. She also told us that in Oxford they have no academic groups and students work according to their own plans. But they have tutorials with their tutors.

Marina: And what do the tutors do?

Sasha: As far as I remember, tutors plan the work of students and suggest the books to be read. At the end of each term students have written examinations. The students' papers are corrected and marked by the tutors. And on the last day of the term the tutors give a verbal report of the students' work for the term.

Marina: Do students meet their tutors every day?

Sasha: Certainly not. You see, each week 2 or 3 students go to their tutor, bring essays for his criticism and he discusses with them the work they have done. Such classes with the tutor are called tutorials.

Marina: Does the tutor deliver lectures?

Sasha: Yes. Some lectures are delivered by tutors, others are delivered by professors. But usually professors don't do teaching work.

Marina: You want to say that professors carry on research work, don't they?

Sasha: Quite so. Professors in Oxford mainly carry on research work in their practical subject.

Marina: Your information was very interesting. Thanks a lot. Well, bye-bye. The lecture begins in two minutes.

Sasha: See you at the library.

6. Insert proper words. Translate the sentences:

1. Professor Smith gave us a …. of lectures on pathology last month (cause, course). 2. To find the ….of his disease was not difficult (cause, course). 3. Premedical…takes three or four years and complete medical…usually takes more than ten years (education, training). 4. Working at a hospital and caring for patients an intern gets the necessary practical… (experiment, experience). 5. The students made a lot of…in their laboratory classes in chemistry (experiments, experience). 6. Newton was the famous English…who discovered the law of gravitation (physician, physicist). 7. After graduating from the medical school, he began to practice as a…in his native town (physician, physicist).

7. Match the terms to the definitions:

8. Guess the puzzles:

o The science of living matter in all its forms and phenomena.

o The science dealing with or investigating the composition, properties and

transformation of substances and various elementary forms of matter.

o The science dealing with the function of living organisms or their parts.

o The science dealing with matter, energy, motion and force.

o Тhe aggregate of courses of study given in а school, college, etc.

o Тhе science of dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.

o А recent medical - school graduate serving an apprenticeship under supervision in а hospital.

o Тhе process of determining the nature and circumstances of а diseased condition bуexamination and analysis.

o Тhе science of treating diseases, injures, or deformities bу operation оn the

body, usually with instruments.

o The branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases.

o Моney awarded to а student to help pursue his or her studies.

Answer the questions:

1. Has the system of Higher Education in Russia been changed in recent years?

2. What can you say about three stages of Higher Professional Education in Russia?

3. Which degree are the students of Medical specialties awarded?

4. What is the most important institution of higher education in our republic?

5. When was Mordovia State University founded?

6. When do the students take examinations?

7. What are the basic forms of learning process?

8. How long does pharmaceutical education in Russia last? What about the USA? Great Britain?

9. What is the oldest pharmaceutical institution of higher education in Russia?

10. Is residency required before receiving a certificate of the specialist?