Includes speaking activities, grammar reference, listening scripts
and a glossary.

"Medicine 2 gives you the language, information, and skills you need to develop your career:
Based on the communication skills required for OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination). Examples from the Oxford Handbook series - authentic material from the world's best-selling medical handbooks; It's my job - authentic insights from professionals working in medicine; Patient care sections develop students' skills in doctor-patient relations. Online interactive exercises to revise and recycle language: https://elt.oup.com/student/oefc/medicine2." (Book Cover)

CONTENTS:

1. Emergency medicine
Career Skills and Knowledge
It’s my job: John Rhys – cycle paramedic
Patient care / Signs and symptoms: Technical and non-technical words
Project: Recruitment
Language Skills
Listening: Listening for detail; Description of an emergency incident
Reading: Guidelines on continuing professional development
Speaking: Eliciting information; Signs and symptoms; Describing a job
Writing: A job application
Language knowledge
Language spot: Rapid tense change; Comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs
Vocabulary: Adverbs: describing how things happened

2. Accidents
Career Skills and Knowledge
It’s my job: Matthew Jenkins - radiologist
Language Skills
Listening: Understanding verb tenses; Accident prevention measures
Reading: Accidents
Speaking: Fracture types; X-rays; Minor injuries
Writing: Describing a fracture
Language knowledge
Language spot: Taking about the present; Saying what’s necessary politely but firmly
Vocabulary: Fractures; Causes of injury

3. Sports medicine
Career Skills and Knowledge
Patient care / Signs and symptoms: Patient vocabulary; Giving warnings and using persuasion
Language Skills
Listening: Spot the difference; Patient attitude
Reading: Physical fitness and health
Speaking: Open questions; Head injury warning card
Writing: Head injury warning instructions
Language knowledge
Language spot: Types of questions
Vocabulary: Verbs of movement; Patient vocabulary
Pronunciation: Main stress

4. Obstetrics Career Skills and Knowledge
It’s my job: Mary Knox – NCT teacher
Patient care / Signs and symptoms: Lay words and medical terms
Language Skills
Listening: Taking details
Reading: Third stage of labour
Speaking: Establishing rapport; Giving advice; Discussing topics in pregnancy
Writing: Supporting opinions
Language knowledge
Language spot: Giving advice and talking about expectation
Vocabulary: Technical terms
Pronunciation: Sentence nucleus

5. Psychiatry
Career Skills and Knowledge
Patient care / Signs and symptoms: Psychiatric symptoms; Interpretation of the patient
Project: The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale
Language Skills
Listening: Mental state examination; Asking about abnormal perceptions
Reading: The changing face of depression
Speaking: A patient with anxiety or elevated mood; Assessing risk
Writing: Describing a chart
Language knowledge
Language spot: Phrasal verbs – separable and inseparable
Vocabulary: Verbs with prepositions
Pronunciation: Saying prepositions

6. Geriatrics
Career Skills and Knowledge
Patient care / Signs and symptoms: Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s
Project: Finding information on Alzheimer’s disease; Health care and changing demographics
Language Skills
Listening: Picking up the thread of what is being said; Active listening
Reading: Rehabilitation
Speaking: Alzheimer’s disease; Hip replacement; Debate: health-care budgets
Writing: A short essay
Language knowledge
Language spot: would, used to, get used to, be used to; Purpose and reason
Vocabulary: Special equipment

7. Dermatology
Career Skills and Knowledge
It’s my job: Zahra El-Ashry – practice nurse
Patient care / Signs and symptoms: Understanding exactly what the patient says
Project: Managing skin conditions
Language Skills
Listening: Listening for details; Dealing with teenagers
Reading: Applied anatomy and physiology
Speaking: Skin conditions; Diagnosis and management of skin conditions
Writing: Reflection on personal experience
Language knowledge
Language spot: Commenting on the past; Verbs with to and -ing
Vocabulary: Lesions
Pronunciation: Main stress in a sentence

8. Surgery
Career Skills and Knowledge
Patient care / Signs and symptoms: Putting yourself in the patient’s shoes
Project: Post-op pain management; OSCE exams
Language Skills
Listening: Patient response; Getting into conversations
Reading: Ovarian cysts: What are the symptoms, problems, and possible complications?
Speaking: Explaining treatments; An ovarian cyst
Writing: Describing a complicated operation
Language knowledge
Language spot: Relative pronouns in explanations
Vocabulary: Medical terminology for surgery; Technical vocabulary
Pronunciation: Secondary stress

9. Cardiology
Career Skills and Knowledge
Patient care / Signs and symptoms: Talking to an anxious partner; Competition; giving advice and coaxing
Project: Cardiac risk factors; Treatment for hypertension and cholesterol
Language Skills
Listening: A heart condition; Advice about lifestyle changes
Reading: High blood pressure - hypertension
Speaking: Taking a history; Medication for hypertension
Writing: Difficulties in persuasion
Language knowledge
Language spot: The future
Vocabulary: Avoidance of technical terms
Pronunciation: Speaking at natural speed

10. Respiratory medicine
Career Skills and Knowledge
Patient care / Signs and symptoms: Lung conditions
Project: Inhalers
Language Skills
Listening: Signs and symptoms; Mistake recognition; Explaining a device
Reading: Flow-volume loop
Speaking: Causes of breathlessness; Explaining tests; Describing a peak flow meter; Explaining an inhaler
Writing: Describing data
Language knowledge
Language spot: The definite and indefinite article
Vocabulary: Coughs; Nature of the sputum

11. Tropical diseases
Career Skills and Knowledge
Patient care / Signs and symptoms: Positioning and support of a stroke patient
Project: Milestones in public health
Language Skills
Listening: Treating returning travellers; Maintaining good health
Reading: Sickle-cell anaemia
Speaking: Developments in public health; Describing a disease; Speaking in group work settings; Patient cultural background
Writing: Describing a life cycle
Language knowledge
Language spot: Linking words
Vocabulary: Traveller’s diarrhoea

12. Technology
Career Skills and Knowledge
Language Skills
Listening: Technological advances; Trying to persuade the doctor;
Reading: Stem cell transplant
Speaking: Controversial developments; Reluctant patients; Stem cell therapy
Writing: Stem cell therapy
Language knowledge:
Language spot: Negative questions

Speaking activities

Grammar reference

Listening scripts

Glossary

Reading bank: 1. Triage 2. Preventing injuries 3. How dangerous is skiing? 4. Fathers and pregnancy 5. OCD 6. Nifty after fifty 7. Roman face cream 8. Training for surgeons 9. Powering pacemakers 10. Ethical issues
11. Coping in the tropics 12. Smart fabrics

Teacher's Resource Book extras:

Grammar Test Keys

Symbols and abbreviations