This course is designed for students who plan to take a course in the field of medicine entirely or partly in English. The principal aim of Academic English for Medicine is to teach students to cope with input texts in listening and reading and to produce output texts in speech and writing in the discipline throughout the course.
The course syllabus concentrates on vocabulary, academic skills and medical knowledge and ethics. Vocabulary includes key vocabulary for the discipline and words and phrases commonly used in academic and technical English. The syllabus will enable medical students to get the most out of lectures and written texts, and presents the skills required to take part in seminars and tutorials and to produce essay assignments. Finally, medical knowledge and ethics, cover key facts and concepts from the discipline, and professional ethics and qualities, thereby giving students a flying start for when they meet the same points again in their future study and work.
01 What is Medicine?
1.1 Identifying Words in Medical Context
1.2 Making Lecture Notes
1.3 The Hippocratic Oath
1.4 Alzheimer\'s
Quiz for Unit 1
02 Achievements in Medicine
2.1 Understanding Medical Words
2.2 Doing Reading Research
2.3 Cardiac Surgery
2.4 Landmarks in Medicine
Quiz for Unit 2
03 Core Subjects in Medicine
3.1 Stress within Words
3.2 Reporting Information to Others
3.3 Principles of Pharmacology
3.4 Anatomical Terms
Quiz for Unit 3
04 Causes and Effects of Diseases
4.1 Abbreviations and Acronyms
4.2 Vocabulary Sets
4.3 Describing Medical Graph
4.4 Developing Ideas in a Paragraph
Quiz for Unit 4
05 Clinical Setting: Acute and Primary Care
5.1 Recognizing Fixed Phrases from Academic English
5.2 Locating Key Information in Complex Sentences
5.3 Caring for Our Health
5.4 Making Effective Contribution to a Seminar
Quiz for Unit 5
06 Non-clinical Setting: Public Health
6.1 Linking Words
6.2 Intergrating Sources
6.3 Public Health
6.4 Defining Terms
Quiz for Unit 6
07 Evidence-based Medicine
7.1 Understanding Special Verbs
7.2 Cornell Note-taking System
7.3 Evidence-based Medicine in the Clinical Setting
7.4 Planning the Writing
Quiz for Unit 7
08 The Future of Medicine
8.1 Recognizing Marked Words
8.2 Writing Bibliography or Reference List
8.3 Implications of Mapping the Human Genome
8.4 Structuring a Research Report
Quiz for Unit 8
