Includes a glossary and transcripts.

"English for Medicine is a skills-based course designed specifically for students of medicine who are about to enter English-medium tertiary level studies. It provides carefully graded practice and progression in the key academic skills that all students need, such as listening to lectures and speaking in seminars. It also equips students with the specialist language they need to participate successfully within a medical faculty. Extensive listening exercises come from medical lectures, and all reading texts are taken from the same field of study. There is also a focus throughout on the key medical vocabulary that student will need.

Listening: how to understand and take effective notes on extended lectures, including how to follow the argument and identify the speaker's point of view.

Speaking: how to participate effectively in a variety of realistic situations, from seminars to presentations, including how to develop an argument and use stance markers.

Reading: how to understand a wide range of texts, from academic textbooks to Internet articles, including how to produce coherent and well-structured assignments, including such skills as paraphrasing and the use of appropriate academic phrases.

Vocabulary: a wide range of activities to develop students' knowledge and use of key vocabulary, both in the field of management and of academic study in general.

Vocabulary and Skills banks: a reference resource to provide students with revision of the key words and phrases and skills presented in the unit.

Full transcripts of all listening exercises.

The Garnet English for Specific Academic Purposes series covers a range of academic subjects. All titles present the same skills and vocabulary points. Teachers can therefore deal with a range of ESAP course at the same time, knowing that each subject title will focus on the same key skills and follow the same structure" (Book Cover).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Unit 1 - WHAT IS MEDICINE? (Listening - Speaking)

TOPICS
Background to the discipline
Areas of study: anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology, pharmacology

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Words from general English with special meaning in medicine
Prefixes and suffixes

SKILLS FOCUS

Listening:
preparing for a lecture
predicting lecture content from the introduction
understanding lecture organization
choosing an appropriate form of notes
making lecture notes

Speaking:
speaking from notes

Unit 2 - ACHIEVEMENTS IN MEDICINE (Reading - Writing)

TOPICS
Cardiac surgery
Eradication of smallpox by vaccination

VOCABULARY FOCUS
English-English dictionaries: headwords – definitions - parts of speech – phonemes - stress markers - countable/uncountable - transitive/intransitive

SKILLS FOCUS

Reading:
using research questions to focus on relevant information in a text
using topic sentences to get an overview of the text

Writing:
writing topic sentences
summarizing a text

Unit 3 - BASIC PRINCIPLES IN MEDICINE (Listening - Speaking)

TOPICS
Anatomy
Physiology

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Stress patterns in multi-syllable words Prefixes

SKILLS FOCUS

Listening:
preparing for a lecture
predicting lecture content
making lecture notes
using different information sources

Speaking:
reporting research findings formulating questions

Unit 4 - COMPUTERS IN MEDICINE (Reading - Writing)

TOPICS
The use of computers in medicine

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Computer jargon
Abbreviations and acronyms
Discourse and stance markers
Verb and noun suffixes

SKILLS FOCUS

Reading:
identifying topic development within a paragraph
using the Internet effectively
evaluating Internet search results

Writing:
reporting research findings

Unit 5 - CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF DISEASE (Listening - Speaking)

TOPICS
Defining disease by type
Demographics and research methods

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Words sets: synonyms, antonyms, etc.
The language of trends
Common lecture language

SKILLS FOCUS

Listening:
understanding 'signpost language' in lectures
using symbols and abbreviations in note-taking

Speaking

making effective contributions to a seminar

Unit 6 - BIOLOGY, BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHARMACOLOGY (Reading - Writing)

TOPICS
Aspects of biology, biochemistry and pharmacology

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Synonyms, replacement subjects, etc., for sentence-level paraphrasing

SKILLS FOCUS

Reading:
reporting findings from other sources: avoiding plagiarism locating key information in complex sentences

Writing:
writing complex sentences

Unit 7 - CLINICAL SETTING: ACUTE CARE (Listening - Speaking)

TOPICS
Medicine in a hospital setting

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Compound nouns
Fixed phrases from management English
Fixed phrases from academic English
Common lecture language

SKILLS FOCUS

Listening:
understanding speaker emphasis

Speaking:
asking for clarification responding to queries and requests for clarification

Unit 8 - CLINICAL SETTING: PRIMARY CARE (Reading - Writing)

TOPICS
Medicine in general practice

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Synonyms Nouns from verbs
Definitions
Common 'direction' verbs in essay titles (discuss, analyze, evaluate, etc.)

SKILLS FOCUS

Reading:
understanding dependent clauses with passives

Writing:
paraphrasing
expanding notes into complex sentences
recognizing different essay types/structures: descriptive, analytical, comparison/evaluation, argument
writing essay plans
writing essays

Unit 9 - NON-CLINICAL SETTING: PUBLIC HEALTH (Listening - Speaking)

TOPICS
Public health medicine
Obesity

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Fixed phrases from management English
Fixed phrases from academic English

SKILLS FOCUS

Listening:
using the Cornell note-taking system
recognizing digressions in lectures

Speaking:
making effective contributions to a seminar
referring to other people's ideas in a seminar

Unit 10 - EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE (Reading - Writing)

TOPICS
Background to EBM
Research fundamentals
Patient role in EBM
Clinical guidelines

VOCABULARY FOCUS
'Neutral' and 'marked' words
Fixed phrases from industrial relations
Fixed phrases from academic English

SKILLS FOCUS

Reading:
recognizing the writer's stance and level of confidence or tentativeness
inferring implicit ideas

Writing:
writing situation-problem-solution-evaluation essays
using direct quotations
compiling a bibliography / reference list

Unit 11 - CURRENT ISSUES IN MEDICINE (Listening - Speaking)

TOPICS
Ethics and patient communication
Informed consent

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Words/phrases used to link ideas (moreover, as a result, etc.)
Stress patterns in noun phrases and compounds
Fixed phrases from academic English

SKILLS FOCUS

Listening:
recognizing the speaker's stance
writing up notes in full

Speaking:
building an argument in a seminar
agreeing / disagreeing

Unit 12 - THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE (Reading - Writing)

TOPICS
Global inequalities in access to health care
Genetic engineering and nano-medicine
Cloning
Pandemics
Clinical trials

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Verbs used to introduce ideas from other sources (X contends/suggests/asserts that ...)
Linking words/phrases conveying contrast (whereas), result (consequently), reasons (due to), etc.
Words for quantities (a significant minority)

SKILLS FOCUS

Reading:
understanding how ideas in a text are linked

Writing:
deciding whether to use direct quotation or paraphrase
incorporating quotations
writing research reports
writing effective introductions / conclusions

Intended for students of medicine who are about to enter English-medium tertiary level studies. Designed for students at the upper intermediate to proficient level (CEF B2 - C2).