English For Medical Purposes A Complete Guide For Healthcare Professionals

This book offers a guide to medical English, and is addressed to healthcare professionals and students with an upper-intermediate level of English. It will also be useful as a handout for specialised English courses offered in medicine, nursing, and physiotherapy degrees, and can be used as a self-study book. The book is made up of four chapters, structured into three sections: namely, grammar, science, and phonetics. Each chapter reviews the main points of English grammar, and works with the vocabulary of the medical field. The book also provides students with basic knowledge of phonetics, which will help them to improve their listening and speaking skills.

'English for Medical Purposes: Doctors' is a communication-focussed course book for private study or use in the classroom. The book presents authentic scenarios between doctor and patient which allow for practice of the sort of conversations doctors are likely to have in the hospital environment. Topics covered include naming parts of the body, introducing yourself to a patient, starting the patient interview, talking to a patient about the current complaint, discussing vital signs, examining a patient, talking about pain level, talking about tests, discussing a diagnosis, discussing surgery options, talking about wounds,allergies and infections and discussing treatment with a patient.

This book was written in response to the growing number of ESL (English as a Second Language) students enrolling in nursing and health professions programs, as well as the tremendous increase in foreign educated practitioners coming to North America to fill the health care deficit. The minimum competency need for Medical English cannot be solely met through the use of a medical terminology book. This book addresses the use of the term in a language and grammar context with a workbook format and multiple learning methods. The book uses a progressive approach that starts with basic exercises and covers standard situations in normal healthcare settings, and uses an easy-to-read writing style.

English for Medicine: A toolkit for discourse and genre-based approaches to medical language and communication 2024 is the revised edition of the earlier textbook (2021). It is a far-from-ordinary, descriptive resource book for student’s use that brings together a toolkit of theory- and research-informed issues in the vast area of discourse and genre analysis relevant to English for Medical Purposes and guides readers in gradually putting theory into practice. This new edition explains how key concepts and topics of medicine and healthcare operate in clear, concise language and visual format and is complemented by Worksheets in which students find a variety of language and task-based exercises in a traditional form and genre-based approach to Medical English. As a perfect companion for students with intermediate (B) and above-level (C) English competencies, this source reference aims to non-native under/postgraduate students of Medicine and other healthcare professionals who wish to study topic areas through the medium of English.

The latest in Springer's "Medical English" series, aimed at health care professionals who need English for their work but do not speak English on a day-to-day basis. Although much of the information provided will be useful for scientists of all backgrounds and nationalities, the book is aimed especially at non-native English-speaking physicians and biomedical scientists. It offers clear advice on a variety of topics relevant to the successful preparation and delivery of scientific presentations. Alongside guidance on the actual preparation and delivery of talks, helpful information is provided on such potential difficulties as dealing with questions, chairing sessions, and use of appropriate English. The book will offer encouragement for those embarking on a career in international science as well as practical advice on how to deal with a wide range of situations that may develop in the context of an international congress.

Notable for its use of real document examples drawn from actual healthcare settings, in addition to its central section’s extended focus on narrative medicine and new media writing, Healthcare Writing: A Practical Guide to Professional Success provides a wide-ranging, much-needed contemporary perspective on the modes and contexts of writing most pertinent to today’s healthcare professionals. Aimed at students enrolled in university- or college-level healthcare programs, healthcare communication specialists, as well as at current clinical practitioners seeking a portable reference and guide, this book combines a detailed discussion of approaches to key healthcare document types—both professional and academic—with a thorough but accessible overview of essential points of grammar, punctuation, and style.