TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCarter,Sam
TI  - Medicine 2
SN  - 9780194569576 (Teacher's Resource Book)
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Terminology
KW  - English language
KW  - Textbooks for foreign speakers
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Foreign speakers
KW  - Medical English
KW  - Spoken English
KW  - Problems, exercises, etc
N1  - Includes speaking activities, grammar reference, listening scripts
and a glossary; "Medicine 2 gives you the language, information, and skills you need to develop your career
; Based on the communication skills required for OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination); Examples from the Oxford Handbook series - authentic material from the world's best-selling medical handbooks; It's my job - authentic insights from professionals working in medicine; Patient care sections develop students' skills in doctor-patient relations; Online interactive exercises to revise and recycle language: https://elt.oup.com/student/oefc/medicine2." (Book Cover); CONTENTS
; 1. Emergency medicine
; Career Skills and Knowledge
; It’s my job: John Rhys – cycle paramedic
; Patient care / Signs and symptoms: Technical and non-technical words
; Project: Recruitment
; Language Skills
; Listening: Listening for detail; Description of an emergency incident
; Reading:  Guidelines on continuing professional development
; Speaking: Eliciting information; Signs and symptoms; Describing a job
; Writing: A job application
; Language knowledge
; Language spot: Rapid tense change; Comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs
; Vocabulary: Adverbs: describing how things happened
; 2. Accidents
; Career Skills and Knowledge
; It’s my job: Matthew Jenkins - radiologist
; Language Skills
; Listening: Understanding verb tenses; Accident prevention measures
; Reading: Accidents
; Speaking: Fracture types; X-rays; Minor injuries
; Writing: Describing a fracture
; Language knowledge
; Language spot: Taking about the present; Saying what’s necessary politely but firmly
; Vocabulary: Fractures; Causes of injury
; 3. Sports medicine
; Career Skills and Knowledge
; Patient care / Signs and symptoms: Patient vocabulary; Giving warnings and using persuasion
; Language Skills
; Listening: Spot the difference; Patient attitude
; Reading: Physical fitness and health
; Speaking: Open questions; Head injury warning card
; Writing: Head injury warning instructions
; Language knowledge
; Language spot: Types of questions
; Vocabulary: Verbs of movement; Patient vocabulary
; Pronunciation: Main stress
; 4. Obstetrics Career Skills and Knowledge
; It’s my job: Mary Knox – NCT teacher
; Patient care / Signs and symptoms: Lay words and medical terms
; Language Skills
; Listening: Taking details
; Reading:  Third stage of labour
; Speaking: Establishing rapport; Giving advice; Discussing topics in pregnancy
; Writing: Supporting opinions
; Language knowledge
; Language spot: Giving advice and talking about expectation
; Vocabulary: Technical terms
; Pronunciation: Sentence nucleus
; 5. Psychiatry
; Career Skills and Knowledge
; Patient care / Signs and symptoms: Psychiatric symptoms; Interpretation of the patient
; Project: The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale
; Language Skills
; Listening: Mental state examination; Asking about abnormal perceptions
; Reading:  The changing face of depression
; Speaking: A patient with anxiety or elevated mood; Assessing risk
; Writing: Describing a chart
; Language knowledge
; Language spot: Phrasal verbs – separable and inseparable
; Vocabulary: Verbs with prepositions
; Pronunciation: Saying prepositions
; 6. Geriatrics
; Career Skills and Knowledge
; Patient care / Signs and symptoms: Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s
; Project: Finding information on Alzheimer’s disease; Health care and changing demographics
; Language Skills
; Listening: Picking up the thread of what is being said; Active listening
; Reading: Rehabilitation
; Speaking: Alzheimer’s disease; Hip replacement; Debate: health-care budgets
; Writing: A short essay
; Language knowledge
; Language spot: would, used to, get used to, be used to; Purpose and reason
; Vocabulary: Special equipment
; 7. Dermatology
; Career Skills and Knowledge
; It’s my job: Zahra El-Ashry – practice nurse
; Patient care / Signs and symptoms: Understanding exactly what the patient says
; Project: Managing skin conditions
; Language Skills
; Listening: Listening for details; Dealing with teenagers
; Reading: Applied anatomy and physiology
; Speaking: Skin conditions; Diagnosis and management of skin conditions
; Writing: Reflection on personal experience
; Language knowledge
; Language spot: Commenting on the past; Verbs with to and -ing
; Vocabulary: Lesions
; Pronunciation: Main stress in a sentence
; 8. Surgery
; Career Skills and Knowledge
; Patient care / Signs and symptoms: Putting yourself in the patient’s shoes
; Project: Post-op pain management; OSCE exams
; Language Skills
; Listening: Patient response; Getting into conversations
; Reading: Ovarian cysts: What are the symptoms, problems, and possible complications?
; Speaking: Explaining treatments; An ovarian cyst
; Writing: Describing a complicated operation
; Language knowledge
; Language spot: Relative pronouns in explanations
; Vocabulary: Medical terminology for surgery; Technical vocabulary
; Pronunciation: Secondary stress
; 9. Cardiology
; Career Skills and Knowledge
; Patient care / Signs and symptoms: Talking to an anxious partner; Competition; giving advice and coaxing
; Project: Cardiac risk factors; Treatment for hypertension and cholesterol
; Language Skills
; Listening: A heart condition; Advice about lifestyle changes
; Reading: High blood pressure - hypertension
; Speaking: Taking a history; Medication for hypertension
; Writing: Difficulties in persuasion
; Language knowledge
; Language spot: The future
; Vocabulary: Avoidance of technical terms
; Pronunciation: Speaking at natural speed
; 10. Respiratory medicine
; Career Skills and Knowledge
; Patient care / Signs and symptoms: Lung conditions
; Project: Inhalers
; Language Skills
; Listening: Signs and symptoms; Mistake recognition; Explaining a device
; Reading: Flow-volume loop
; Speaking: Causes of breathlessness; Explaining tests; Describing a peak flow meter; Explaining an inhaler
; Writing: Describing data
; Language knowledge
; Language spot: The definite and indefinite article
; Vocabulary: Coughs; Nature of the sputum
; 11. Tropical diseases
; Career Skills and Knowledge
; Patient care / Signs and symptoms: Positioning and support of a stroke patient
; Project: Milestones in public health
; Language Skills
; Listening: Treating returning travellers; Maintaining good health
; Reading: Sickle-cell anaemia
; Speaking: Developments in public health; Describing a disease; Speaking in group work settings; Patient cultural background
; Writing: Describing a life cycle
; Language knowledge
; Language spot: Linking words
; Vocabulary: Traveller’s diarrhoea
; 12. Technology
; Career Skills and Knowledge
; Language Skills
; Listening: Technological advances; Trying to persuade the doctor
; Reading: Stem cell transplant
; Speaking: Controversial developments; Reluctant patients; Stem cell therapy
; Writing: Stem cell therapy
; Language knowledge
; Language spot: Negative questions
; Speaking activities
; Grammar reference
; Listening scripts
; Glossary; Reading bank; 1. Triage; 2. Preventing injuries; 3. How dangerous is skiing?; 4. Fathers and pregnancy; 5. OCD; 6. Nifty after fifty; 7. Roman face cream; 8. Training for surgeons; 9. Powering pacemakers; 10. Ethical issues
; 11. Coping in the tropics; 12. Smart fabrics; Teacher's Resource Book extras
; Grammar Test Keys
; Symbols and abbreviations
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