Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
MEDICAL ENGLISH
Professional English in Use – Medicine (
Professional English in Use Medicine contains 60 units covering a wide variety of medical vocabulary. Topics include diseases and symptoms, investigations, treatment, examining and prevention. The book also introduces general medical vocabulary related to parts and functions of the body, medical, and para-medical personnel, education and training, research and presentations.
Contents
Basics:
- Health and Illness
- Parts of the body 1
- Parts of the body 2
- Functions of the body
Medical and paramedical personnel and places
5. Medical practitioner 1
6. Medical practitioner 2
7. Nurses
8. Allied health professionals
9. Hospitals
10. Primary care
Education and Training
11. Medical education 1
12. Medical education 2
13. The overseas doctor
Systems, diseases ans symptoms
14. Symptoms and signs
15. Blood
16. Bones
17. Childhood
18. The endocrine system
19. The eye
20. The gastrointestinal system
21. Gynaecology
22. The heart and circulation 1
23. The heart and circulation 2
24. Infections
25. Mental illness
26. The nervous system 1
27. The nervous system 2
28. Oncology
29. Pregnancy and childbirth
30. The respiratory system
31. The skin 1
32. The skin 2
33. The urinary system
Investigations
34. Basic investigations
35. Laboratory tests
36. Endoscopy
37. X-ray and CT
38. MRI and ultrasound
39. ECG
Treatment
40. Medical treatment
41. Surgical treatment
42. Therapies
Prevention
43. Screening and immunization
Epidemiology
44. Epidemiology
Ethics
45. Medical ethics
Research
46. Research studies
Taking a history
47. Taking a history 1
48. Taking a history 2
49. Taking a history 3
Examination
50 . Physical examination
51. Mental state examination
Explanation
52. Explaining diagnosis and management
53. Discussing treatment
54. Giving bad news
Presentations
55. Data presentation 1
56. Data presentation 2
57. Research articles
58. Abstracts
59. Conference presentations
60. Case presentations
Good Practice
Communication Skills in English for the Medical Practitioner
Good Practice focus on the language and communication skills that doctors need to make consultations more effective through a focus on five elements of good communication: verbal communication, active listening, voice management, non-verbal communication and cultural awareness.
Section 1: Introduction to communication
Section 2: Developing Language and Communication skills for the patient encounter
1. Receiving the patient
2. The presenting complaint
3. Past medical and family history
4. The social history and telephone consultations
5. Examining a patient
6. Giving results
7. Planning treatment and closing the interview
8. Dealing with sensitive issues
9. Breaking bad news
Section 3: Interviewing different patient categories
10. Communicating with challenging patients
11. Communicating with the elderly
12. Communicating with children and adolescents
WRITING
A) Part I: Getting Started
Chap 1: Finding Your Voice
- Why Write?
- Voice: .What is voice?
. Developing Voice
Part II: The Writing Process
Introduction
Chap 2: First Steps
Chap 3: Writing a Paragraph
Chap 4: Writing an Essay
Part III: The Structure of the Paragraph
Chap 5: The Paragraph
Part IV: The Structure of the Essay
Chap 6: The Essay
Part V: Rhetorical Patterns
Introduction
Chap7: Description
Chap 8: Narration
Chap 9: Illustration or Example
Chap 10: Process Analysis
Chap 11: Cause and Effect
Chap 12: Comparison and Contrast
Chap 13: Summary
Chap 14: Persuasion
Part VI: Capitalization
B) WORDINESS
C) PARALLELISM
- Introduction
- Items in series
- Pairs
- Comparisons
- Phrases and Clauses
- Parallel words
D) MODIFIERS
- Introduction
- Misplaced modifiers
- Limiting modifiers
- Squinting modifiers
- Split infinitives
- Dangling modifiers
E) PUNCTUATION
Exercises: (“Write about what you know” Daily routine, writing about your workplace, about your friend, about your family, about your favorite (singer, food, drink, Story writing), essays
Resources:
- Writer's Resources: From Paragraph to Essay by Julie Robitaille and Robert Connelly
- Writer’s Craft
- Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2009 DVD by Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009
READING
Importance of reading
Skimming and scanning
- Short reading passages
- Readings about animals
- Readings from different books
- Summarizing the read passages
Resources:
Short and long texts passages from books
Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2009 DVD by Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009 (articles about: History, Geography,
People & Society, Science & Nature, Arts & Literature, and Sports & Recreation)
Ultimate library
Encyclopedia Britannica
Dialogs
English Tutor…
Texts from VOA
Rosetta Stone
TOEFL books and software
IELTS books and software
TEOIC books
Cutting Edge books
Newspapers
NOTES ON AMERICAN & BRITISH ENGLISH
- Introduction
- British English vice American English usage
- The difference between British and American Grammar
- Understanding what you read (1& 2)