English For Medical Students

ENGLISH FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS CLIVE BRASNETT This book is intended to help the medical and premedical student who is planning to study medicine in English. It is assumed that he will have some knowledge of general English, but little experience of studying works in scientific English. Passages have been selected from a variety of standard medical textbooks and reproduced in their original form. In the first part of the book simplified versions precede the actual passages so that the reader proceeds from a familiar kind of English to a less familiar kind. Notes following the passages draw attention to characteristic but unfamiliar features of the kind of scientific English used in medical texts, and exercises provide opportunities for the student to check his understanding of both vocabulary and structure. There are also pronunciation practice lists and a short dictionary is provided. Whereas for some years books have been available designed to help doctors from non-English speaking countries develop their skills in spoken English in order to be able to conduct their day-to-day clinical practice, little attention has been paid to developing reading skills in the field of medicine. Those running English courses for medical students and practitioners from nonEnglish speaking countries will generally want to balance the spoken component of their courses with a reading component, such as is provided in this book. The author has been involved in teaching English and in developing English teaching programmes in North Africa, the Middle East, India, Malaysia and Kenya. A Cassette tape Is In preparation. Enquiries about this should be addressed to: Mrs Vanessa Mitchell. Methuen and Co Ltd, 11 New Fetter Lane. London EC4P 4EE.

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