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Critical values of learning to speak English for Japanese clinicians

We suggest three reasons why Japanese clinicians should learn to speak English: international academic interaction, gaining experience abroad, and having another skill in the rapidly changing world during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Not only reading and writing English but also speaking the language is i...

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Autores principales: Kuroda, Kaku, Ohta, Ryuichi, Bailey, R. Eugene
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8721314/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35004122
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.487
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description We suggest three reasons why Japanese clinicians should learn to speak English: international academic interaction, gaining experience abroad, and having another skill in the rapidly changing world during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Not only reading and writing English but also speaking the language is inevitable for Japanese clinicians. Although speaking English is not easy owing to the disparity between English and Japanese, verbal English fluency adds tremendous value to academic development.[Image: see text]
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spelling pubmed-87213142022-01-07 Critical values of learning to speak English for Japanese clinicians Kuroda, Kaku Ohta, Ryuichi Bailey, R. Eugene J Gen Fam Med Letters to the Editor We suggest three reasons why Japanese clinicians should learn to speak English: international academic interaction, gaining experience abroad, and having another skill in the rapidly changing world during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Not only reading and writing English but also speaking the language is inevitable for Japanese clinicians. Although speaking English is not easy owing to the disparity between English and Japanese, verbal English fluency adds tremendous value to academic development.[Image: see text] John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8721314/ /pubmed/35004122 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.487 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Journal of General and Family Medicine published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Japan Primary Care Association. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.487
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