English for Medicine
English for Medicine
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医学英语
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2016
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Ros Wright
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作者:
Patrick Fitzgerald;Marie McCullagh;Ros Wright
The course aims to develop English language skills towards a C1 level with lexis and topics which are typical of the medical field. More specifically, the course will foster language competency as follows: ● SPEAKING: Employing a patient-centered approach, demonstrating empathy, encouraging patients to ask questions and establishing what they already know, asking about sensitive topics and for clarification, dealing with challenging patients and relatives, taking a history, giving instructions, explaining diagnosis and management, discussing treatment, giving bad news ● WRITING: opening and closing a letter, SBAR situations, discharge letters, case reports ● Medical focus: symptoms and signs, mental illnesses, the cardiovascular system, the respiratory system, describing pain, words used in medical English and their common equivalent ● Grammar: softening questions, quick tense review, the passive, conjunctions, prepositions ● LISTENING: listening comprehension will be developed thanks to audioclips on doctor-patient interaction and medical issues. ● READING: short texts (e.g. medical guidelines, emails) will be provided and analysed during the course