English for Medicine in Higher Education Studies Course Book with Downloadable Audio

Description

It provides carefully graded practice and progressions 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 medical 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 students will need.
Contents


Unit 1: What is medicine?
Unit 2: Achievements in medicine
Unit 3: Basic principles in medicine
Unit 4: Computers in medicine
Unit 5: Causes and effects of disease
Unit 6: Biology, biochemistry and pharmacology
Unit 7: Clinical setting: acute care
Unit 8: Clinical setting: primary care
Unit 9: Non-clinical setting: public health
Unit 10: Evidence-based medicine
Unit 11: Current issues in medicine
Unit 12: The future of medicine