English in Medicine is a well-established course for doctors, medical students and other medical professionals who have to communicate in English with patients, their relatives and other medical colleagues.
Each of the seven units focuses on one area of doctor-patient communication, from history taking and examination to diagnosis and treatment.
The course is at an intermediate language level and does not require specialist knowledge of medicine on the part of the teacher.
ey features of the course:
- development of all four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing
- a wide variety of tasks and a systematic approach to lan guage development
- histories based on authentic cases drawn from specialisms ranging from neurology to ophthalmology
- up-to-date text sources that include journal articles and the internet
- a complete tapescript and answer key
- a list of language functions, medical abbreviations and useful addresses