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This study aimed to investigate changes in awareness, attitudes, acceptability, and possible barriers to using Arabicized medical terms in teaching and daily communication in medical colleges in Jordan. Using a cross-sectional online survey, medicine students and professors in Jordanian universities were sampled to survey their awareness, attitudes, and barriers toward Arabicized medical terms. Responses to the surveys were quantified into awareness, attitudes, and barriers scores and compared according to the sociodemographic variables of the study sample. Results of the current study showed positive awareness/acceptability and attitudes among medicine students toward Arabicized medical terms. The most common perceived barriers toward Arabicization among medicine students were that teaching and assessments (exams, quizzes, projects, etc.) are in English and the unavailability of valuable medical references that use Arabic terms. Several demographic variables were associated with acceptability, attitudes, and/or barriers toward Arabicized terms among medicine students, including gender, income, place of living, level of medicine study, having more than one mother tongue, and langua

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Author

Dalal Al-Zubi; Ahmad El-Sharif; Karem H. Alzoubi

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Physical Sciences)