Full Description
English for Medical Communication: A Guide to Course Design is a practical guide to the design of health communication courses in English for Academic/Specific Purposes (EAP/ESP). Written by an experienced team of EAP/ESP practitioners teaching communication courses to medical students, the chapters cover ten key areas in medical communication, such as reporting patient history, writing a medico-legal report, discussing ethical cases, writing a Wikipedia article in medicine, and presenting community project findings in a research report.
The book covers medical communication among healthcare professionals with laypersons and researchers. Each chapter introduces course design principles, teaching approaches and techniques, course materials with effective classroom tasks, and students' sample assignments. Each chapter also provides resources to support teachers in designing courses in a wider international context.
Including up-to-date literature on key concepts and core understandings and best practices in medical communication, this accessible volume is an essential guide for language teachers of EAP/ESP programs designing courses for medical students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels worldwide.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
1 Introduction
Clarence Wang
2 Medical terminology
Clarence Wang, Laura Wakeland, Simon Scanlon, Ashley Hazell
3 Patient history reporting
Clarence Wang, Jane Stokes, Laura Wakeland, Anthea Cheung, Gagandeep Singh, Caroline Nixon
4 Clinical handover
Clarence Wang, Laura Wakeland
5 Medical ethics case presentation
Clarence Wang, Laura Wakeland
6 Reflective writing
Clarence Wang, Ashley Hazell, Simon Scanlon
7 Medical report writing
Clarence Wang, Jane Stokes, Laura Wakeland, Daya Datwani
8 Popular science article writing
Clarence Wang, Laura Wakeland, Daya Datwani, Glenda Thomas, Simon Boynton
9 Wikipedia article writing
Clarence Wang, Laura Wakeland, Daya Datwani, Letty Chan, Glenda Thomas, Simon Scanlon, Juan Castillo, Simon Boyton
10 Research report writing
Clarence Wang, Letty Chan, Simon Scanlon, Daya Datwani
11 Writing systematic reviews
Clarence Wang
12 Conclusion
Clarence Wang
Index
