English for Medicine in Higher Education Studies Course Book

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Unit Topics

1 What is medicine? Listening • Speaking • background to the discipline • areas of study： anatomy physiology biochemistry pathology pharmacology

2 Achievements in medicine • cardiac surgery • eradication of smallpox by vaccination

Reading • Writing

3 Basic principles in medicine Listening • Speaking • anatomy • physiology

4 Computers in medicine Reading • Writing • the use of computers in medicine

5 Causes and effects of disease Listening • Speaking • defining disease by type • demographics and research methods

6 Biology, biochemistry and pharmacology Reading . Writing • aspects of biology, biochemistry and pharmacology

7 Clinical setting: acute care Listening • Speaking • medicine in a hospital setting i

8 Clinical setting: primary care Reading • Writing • medicine in general practice

9 Non-clinical setting: public health Listening • Speaking • public health medicine • obesity

10 Evidence-based medicine • background to EBM • research fundamentals

Reading • Writing • patient role in EBM • clinical guidelines

11 Current issues in medicine Listening • Speaking • ethics and patient communication • informed consent

12 The future of medicine • global inequality in access to health care • genetic engineering and nano-medicine

Reading • Writing • cloning • pandemics • clinical trials

Vocabulary focus Skills focus

• words from general English with a special meaning in Listening preparing for a lecture

medicine predicting lecture content from the introduction

• prefixes and suffixes understanding lecture organization

choosing an appropriate form of notes

making lecture notes

Speaking speaking from notes

• English-English dictionaries headwords parts of speech Reading using research questions to focus on relevant information in a text

stress markers phonemes countable/uncountabie using topic sentences to get an overview of the text

transitive/intransitive Writing writing topic sentences

summarizing a text