This course is designed for students who plan to take a course in the field of medicine entirely or partly in English. The principal aim of Academic English for Medicine is to teach students to cope with input texts in listening and reading and to produce output texts in speech and writing in the discipline throughout the course.

The course syllabus concentrates on vocabulary, academic skills and medical knowledge and ethics. Vocabulary includes key vocabulary for the discipline and words and phrases commonly used in academic and technical English. The syllabus will enable medical students to get the most out of lectures and written texts, and presents the skills required to take part in seminars and tutorials and to produce essay assignments. Finally, medical knowledge and ethics, cover key facts and concepts from the discipline, and professional ethics and qualities, thereby giving students a flying start for when they meet the same points again in their future study and work.

Ÿ  To know about the basic conception, knowledge and research situation of medicine

Ÿ  To master the medical terminology

Ÿ  To integrate the cultivation of English language learning, professional knowledge, academic skill

Ÿ  To develop students’ comprehensive language skills combined with English language input and output

Ÿ  To fully develop the English listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating skills in medical and professional background

References

Eric H. Glendinning & Ron Howard. Professional English in Use: Medicine. Beijing: Post & Telecom Press. 2010.

Patrick Fitzgerald, Marie McCullagh & Ros Wright. English for Medicine (Course Book). Beijing: Higher Education Press. 2012.

Peiying Ji & Qingxiang Kong. Academic English for Medicine. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. 2012.

Barbara Janson Cohen & Ann DePetris. Medical Terminology: An Illustrated Guide （8th Edition). Beijing: Beijing United Publishing Co. Ltd. 2018.