Academic English for Medicine

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Λεπτομέρειες

Σελίδες

240

ISBN13

978-618-202-249-8

Έτος Έκδοσης

2025

Διαστάσεις

21×29 cm

Εξώφυλλο

Μαλακό Εξώφυλλο

Εσωτερικό Βιβλίου

Έγχρωμο

Γλώσσα

English

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Academic English for Medicine” is addressed to medicine and science students at under- or post graduate level and aims to equip them with appropriate knowledge and effective skills so that they become critical readers of scientific papers and confident users of the academic English language.

By the end of this course, participants will have learnt and practised ways to help them

  • gain an in-depth understanding of scientific and medical published work,
  • critically appraise biomedical research papers, case reports and clinical reviews,
  • develop their academic and scientific vocabulary,
  • deal with unfamiliar vocabulary and difficult sentences in medicine and science texts,
  • improve their writing skills for academic purposes,
  • prepare and deliver oral presentations for academic and professional purposes.

The book consists of 11 units with a complete glossary and bibliography list. A Teacher’s Book is available
as a separate publication.

Each unit is organised in three lessons and includes

  • reading comprehension and/or skills-based activities for both individual and group work,
  • a summary of the taught skills, for quick reference and self-evaluation opportunities,
  • further study sources,
  • an end-of-unit review assignment, and
  • a word list (with audio file).

Preface: Welcome and orientation to the course xi Acknowledgements

1. Academic reading strategies
Lesson 1: Academic reading strategies Lesson 2: Detailed reading II
Lesson 3: Detailed reading III In this unit
Further study
Assignment 1: Oral communication of an article’s key points Word list 1

2. Vocabulary learning strategies
Lesson 1: Vocabulary learning and the features of academic vocabulary Lesson 2: From piling up to sorting out
In this unit Further study
Assignment 2: Reading for vocabulary learning Word list 2

3. Reading and making notes
Lesson 1: Reading and note-making I
Lesson 2: Detailed reading and note-making II Lesson 3: Detailed reading and note-making III In this unit
Assignment 3: Note-making and speaking from notes Word list 3

4. Features of academic language
Lesson 1: Aiming for formality and objectivity Lesson 2: Aiming for precision and fuzziness Lesson 3: Source acknowledgement
In this unit Further study
Assignment 4: Reading for academic language awareness Word list 4

5. Navigating medical review articles
Lesson 1: Critical analysis of medical review articles and reading practice I Lesson 2: Reading practice II
Lesson 3: Reading practice III In this unit
Further study
Assignment 5: Navigating medical review articles Word list 5

6. Dealing with challenging language in scientific texts
Lesson 1: Dealing with difficult words Lesson 2: Compound nominals
Lesson 3: Working out meaning in long and complex sentences In this unit
Assignment 6: Dealing with difficult words and sentences in scientific texts Word list 6

7. Navigating biomedical research articles
Lesson 1: Critical analysis of biomedical research articles (RA) Lesson 2: Reading practice of a research article
Lesson 3: Reading research articles selectively In this unit
Further study
Assignment 7: Critical appraisal of a biomedical research article Word list 7

8. The writing process and summary writing
Lesson 1: The writing process Lesson 2: Summary writing In this unit
Further study
Assignment 8: Reading for summary writing Word list 8

9. Navigating medical case reports
Lesson 1: Typical structure and purposes of case reports Lesson 2: Critical reading of a medical case report
Lesson 3: Stylistic and language features of medical case reports In this unit
Further study
Assignment 9: Understanding medical case reports Word list 9

10. Academic presentations
Lesson 1: Presentation types and organisation Lesson 2: Designing presentation visuals Lesson 3: Presentation delivery skills
In this unit Further study
Assignment 10: An academic presentation Word list 10

11. Reference unit
Answering reading comprehension questions Academic communication – E-mail etiquette
Inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words – Useful strategies Common medical prefixes and suffixes

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Divini Kyriaki

Kyriaki Divini is an English for Medicine instructor at the University of Crete, School of Medicine. She holds a BA in English and Greek language and literature from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, and has received training in the teaching of English for medical purposes from the University of Edinburgh. She has over 35 years of experience in teaching courses in medical terminology, medical reading and writing, and patient-physician communication. She has also taught Greek to speakers of other languages. She has published work in international journals and conference proceedings and has served on international ESP/EAP conference organising and program committees. She is a member of the coordinating committee of the University of Crete teaching and learning support office.

    Δωρεάν αντίτυπο οι Εκδόσεις Δίσιγμα στέλνουν μόνο σε Καθηγητές/τριες Ελληνικών και Κυπριακών Πανεπιστημίων