1. Health care Finnish eLearning courses
Hanna Turunen, eLearning specialist, MSSc
2. Health care Finnish 1-5
• Target group: Foreign
doctors, who wish to
improve their Finnish
(B1-level -> C1 level)
• Co-operation with The
University of Helsinki
Centre for Continuing
Education (Hilda Urb)
3. • Free courses
available at
Oppiportti.fi
online portal
• 45 eLearning
courses/35
eBooks /43
videos
4. Topics
1. Course: nouns and structures
2. Course: verbs
3. Course: sentence elements: subjects,
objects, predicates
4. Course: particles: prepositions,
postpositions, adverbs, conjunctions
5. Course: phrases, medical glossary,
work in health care center
5. • Open questions
• Match pairs
• Fill in blanks
• Reading comprehension
• Audio
• Video
• Dialogue rehearsal
Grammar & tasks
12. Feedback
• Questionnaire at the end of each
course
Compliments/
Bouquets
“My Finnish improved, also
the glossary of medicine.”
“Good course, I recommend
it.”
“Audio.”
“Writing practice.”
“Grammar.”
Criticism/Brickbats:
“There should be more
anatomy exercises”
“…more examples and
grammar”
“…more open questions”
“I didn’t learn anything new!
Totally useless course.”