Cuốn sách cung cấp cho người học ngành Y một công cụ hữu ích để tra cứu cũng như học tập chuyên ngành bằng tiếng Anh.
Contents
To the teacher
To the student
Unit 1
Taking a history 1
1 Asking basic questions
2 Taking notes
3 Reading skills: Scanning a case history
4 Case history: William Hudson
Unit 2
Taking a history 2
1 Asking about systems
2 Asking about symptoms
3 Reading skills: Noting information from a textbook
4. Case history: William Hudson
Unit 3
Examining a patient
1 Giving instructions
2 Understanding forms
3 Reading skills: Using a pharmacol- ogy reference
4 Case history: William Hudson
Unit 4
Special examinations
1 Instructing explaining and reas-suring
2 Rrpharasing, encouraging and prompting
3 Reading skills: Reading articles 1
4 Case history: William Hudson
Unit 5
Investigations
1 Explaining and discussing investigations
2 Using medical documents
3 Reading skills: Reading articles 2
4 Case history: William Hudson
Unit 6
Making a diagnosis
1 Discussing a diagnosis
2 Explaining a diagnosis
3 Reading skills: Reading articles 3
4 Case history: William Hudson
Unit 7
Treatment
1 Medical treatment
2 Physiotherapy
3 Surgical treatment
4 Reading skills: Using an index
Tapescript
Key
Appendix 1: Language functions
Appendix 2: Common medical abbreviations
Appendix 3: Who’ s who in the British hospitial system
Appendix 4: A broad equivalence of positions in the NHS and US hospital systems
Appendix 5: Useful addresses
Supplementary activities
