Professional English in Use: Medicine

Цялото разнообразие на медицинската лексика е представено в 62 урока. Книгата включва теми като симптоми, болести, изследване и лечение, проучване и превантивни мерки и представя основната медицинска лексика, свързана с частите и функционирането на тялото, медицински персонал, образование и тренинг, проучване и презентации.

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Introduktion
Basics

• Health and illness
• Asking about health
• Sickness
• Recovery
• Parts of the body 1
• Parts of the body
• Referring to parts of the body
• Describing radiation of pain
• Parts of the body 2
• The abdomen
• The chest
• The pelvis
• Functions of the body
• Eating
• The five senses
• Other functions
• Less common functions

Medical and Paramedical personnel and places

• Medical practitioners 1
• Practitioners
• Specialties
• Choosing a specialty
• Medical practitioners 2
• Hospital staff
• Medical teams
• Shifts
• Nurses
• Nursing grades
• Support workers
• Specialization
• The nurse's role
• Allied health professionals
• Community health
• Technicians
• Prosthetists and orthotists
• Opticians
• Hospitals
• Introduction to a hospital
• Outpatients
• Inpatients
• Primary care
• The National Health Service
• The practice team
• A GP's day

Education and Training

• Medical education 1
• Medical education in the UK
• Extract from an undergraduate prospectus
• A student's view
• Medical education 2
• The Foundation Programme
• People in medical education
• Medical qualifications
• The overseas doctor
• Types of registration
• PLAB
• PLAB stations and advice

Systems, diseases and symptoms

• Symptoms and signs
• Describing problems
• Presentation
• Talking about symptoms
• Blood
• Full blood count
• Anaemia
• Pernicious anaemia
• Bones
• Bones
• Fractures
• Treatment of fractures
• Childhood
• Milestones
• Common infectious diseases
• Coeliac disease
• The endocrine system
• Excess and deficiency
• Negative feedback systems
• Goitre
• A letter of referral
• The eye
• Parts of the eye
• Examination of the eye
• Retinopathy
• The gastrointestinal system
• Examination of the abdomen
• The faeces
• Gynaecology
• The female reproductive system
• Menstruation
• A gynaecological consultation
• Contraception
• The heart and circulation 1
• Shortness of breath
• Heart rhythm
• Heart failure
• The heart and circulation 2
• Physical examination
• Examining the heart and circulation
• Infections
• Fever
• Microorganisms
• Source and spread of infection
• Mental illness
• Psychiatric disorders
• Substance abuse
• Affective disorders
• Neurotic and stress-related disorders
• Other types of functional disorder
• The nervous system 1
• Sensory loss
• Motor loss
• Loss of consciousness
• The nervous system 2
• The motor system
• Tendon reflexes
• Coma
• Oncology
• Neoplasms
• Symptoms and signs of malignancy
• Treatment of tumours
• Pregnancy and childbirth
• Childbirth
• Labour
• Presentation and lie
• The respiratory system
• Cough
• Auscultation
• The skin 1
• Some types of skin lesion
• Rashes
• The skin 2
• Injuries to the skin
• Case report
• Sores
• The urinary system
• Urinary symptoms
• Urinalysis

Investigations

• Basic investigations
• Ophthalmoscopy
• Blood pressure
• Taking blood
• Laboratory tests
• A Microbiology test request form
• A Biochemistry and Haematology lab report
• Terms used to describe lab results
• Endoscopy
• Functions of endoscopy
• Enteroscopy
• Report of a diagnostic endoscopy
• X-ray and CT
• Radiography and radiology
• X-ray examination
• Computed Tomography
• MRI and ultrasound
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• Ultrasound
• Preparing for medical imaging
• Describing medical imaging
• ECG
• Uses of an ECG
• ECG procedure
• A normal ECG

Treatment

• Medical treatment
• Prescriptions and drugs
• The British National Formulary
• Surgical treatment
• The operating theatre
• Instruments
• The operation
• An operation report
• Therapies
• Radiotherapy and chemotherapy
• A day in the life of a physiotherapist
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Prevention

• Screening and immunization
• Screening
• Common screening tests
• Immunization for travellers

Epidemiology

• Epidemiology
• Rates
• Incidence and prevalence
• Association and causation

Ethics

• Medical ethics
• GMC guidelines
• Bioethical issues
• Assisted dying

Research

• Research studies
• Case-control studies
• Cohort studies
• Trials
• Variables

Taking a history

• Taking a history 1
• A full case history
• Personal details
• Talking about pain
• Taking a history 2
• Drug history
• Family history
• Social and personal history
• Taking a history 3
• Reviewing the systems
• Asking about the central nervous system
• Patient ideas, concerns and expectations
• Phrasal verbs in history-taking

Examination

• Physical examination
• Examining a patient
• Giving instructions
• Mental state examination
• Some symptoms of psychiatric disorders
• Mood
• Typical questions from a mental state examination

Explanation

• Explaining diagnosis and management
• Explanations
• Using lay terms in explanations
• An explanation of angina
• Discussing treatment
• Offering options
• Advising a course of action
• Advising patients to avoid something
• Warnings
• Giving bad news
• Principles of giving bad news
• A consultant medical oncologist's report

Presentations

• Data presentation 1
• Referring to a table or figure
• Comparing variables
• Approximating
• Data presentation 2
• Line graphs
• Pie charts and bar charts
• Describing trends
• Research articles
• The structure of a research article
• Objectives
• Main findings
• Abstracts
• Structured abstracts
• The BMJ abstract
• Conference presentations
• The structure of a presentation
• The introduction
• Signalling
• The conclusion
• Case presentations
• Sections of a case presentation
• Bedside presentation
• Slides

Appendix I - Parts of the body
Appendix II - Medical abbreviations
Appendix III - Types of medication
Appendix IV - Symptoms and pain
Appendix V - Verbs used in instructions
Appendix VI - Lay terms and definitions
Answer key
Index