Lecture Homework:Unit 3: The Lungs

Before next class see if you can do the following activities from the textbook linked below. Please note, while this is not a compulsory activity and your work won't be checked, try and spend just a little time on it.

v. Crossword

EMP Web Resources:About.com

One of the more consistent contributors of ESL material of the web is Kenneth Beare, who has been contributing articles, activities and other things for both English Language Teachers and students on the About.com site - esl.about.com since 1997. In his posting one English for medical Purposes, Bare presents dialogues focusing on the English you'll need if you visit the doctor, or if you work in the medical profession. Each dialogue includes a key vocabulary section, as well as a follow-up comprehension quiz.

Link:
About.com: English for Medical Purposes

EMP Web Resources:DoctorSecrets.com

Not strictly speaking a 'English for Medical Purposes' web resource, Doctor Secrets nontheless aims to provide information for Doctors and Doctoring in a language that is - to borrow the words in its slogan - ''clear, simple and quick''. Sites like these are interesting not only for the information they provide about medical problems but also because it are sites like these that patients / people in the public visit before visiting doctors.

Link:
doctorsecrets.com

ESL Web Resources:Arab-Eng.org

As mentioned in class there are lots of sites on the web that allow you to download and have a look a English language learning resources. One such site in Arabic is Arab-Eng.org. To sample what they have to offer check out the links below to an English Language Learning Video Series called ''English For You - EFU'' and ''Upstream'' an Upper Intermediate Audio : English e-Learning course

p.s. rapidshare accounts, by the way, are easy to get in Saudi Arabia - well worth the money!!

Links:
''English For You - EFU''
''Upstream''
Arab-Eng.org

Lecture Extras:File Unziping

As mentioned in class today, it is possible that some of you are having problems getting the audio from the blog because you do not know how to 'unzip' the files you download. The ZIP file format allows me to both compress and archive my files.

To read more about zipping and unzipping files see here. To choose from a variety of unzipping options go to filehippo.com and scole down to the Compression and Backup options. My preferred program is 7-Zip, but many prefer WinZip.

EMP Web Resources:EnglishClub.com

According to the EnglishClub.com web site [according to them the ] ''..patients come in all different shapes and sizes. They also speak many different languages.'' Whether you are working abroad or at home, there will come a time when you will need to rely on English to communicate. The pages produced by them, they state: ''...can help nurses, doctors, pharmacists, paramedics, receptionists, specialists or even those who volunteer. They will help you learn some basic English expressions and vocabulary related to the medical field. By studying and practicing Medical English, you will be able to make your patients feel more comfortable, and have a better understanding of their needs. You will also learn how to talk to their loved ones and communicate with other medical staff who speak English.''

Link:
EnglishClub.com

Online Journals:Nature

This week's online journal is Nature - one of the most prominant and prestigious science journals around. First published on 4 November 1869, Nature publishes original research articles across a wide range of scientific fields - including medicine. In many fields of scientific research, important new advances and original research are published as articles or letters in Nature. As the article on Nature in Wikipedia notes: Research scientists are the primary audience for the journal, but summaries and accompanying articles make many of the most important papers understandable for the general public and to scientists in other fields.

Link:
Nature

EMP Web Resources:BusinessEnglishSite.com

While there are a number of sites specifically for Hospital and/or Medical English, many genral ESL student sites also have pages devoted to the type of English needed by Doctors and Medical staff. One such page is that produced by the BusinessEnglishSite.com. These exercises are for doctors (and other health-care professionals) looking to practice medical terminology (or to speak to patients in a more natural way) as well as for patients who want to communicate better with their physicians. All their exercises (except the beginners' exercises) are meant for intermediate-Advanced, although.

Link:
BusinessEnglishSite:Medical English

Lecture Extra:The International Phonetic Alphabet

To prepare for this week's discussion of the sounds of English and the International Phonetic Alphabet have a look at the table on antimoon.com's site.

The table contains all the sounds (phonemes) used in the English language. For each sound, it gives the symbol from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), as used in phonetic transcriptions in modern dictionaries for English learners — that is, in A. C. Gimson's phonemic system with a few additional symbols. Sound files are included.

Link:
The International Phonetic Alphabet

Message from Simon:Classes for Saturday 7th November

Dear Guys, I have had a few phone calls about the classes tomorrow. Because some of you want to watch the football match tomorrow afternoon, I have agreed to hold a class for Group 6 from 8:oo to 10:30 in the morning.

If you do not want to attend that class you can either come at your normal time [ie. 2:00-4:30] or to the 11:00-1:30 class. Basically I will be around all day so hopefully no one will miss out.

For now, be good and happy,

Simon

Textbook 2:English_In_Medicine

Please note that a new [and improved] jpeg version of the textbook for the practical/workshop classes ''English_in_Medicine'' is now available at the link below.

Please note however that the file is 25.64 mb so may take some time to download. please also note that for those who want to purchase the book that copies are still available at bookshops in Jeddah, Mecca and Taif.

Link:
English_in_Medicine

Lecture Extra:Hearing and the Ears

How about trying to utilize your newly acquired ear and hearing related vocabulary by visiting the BBC's Science & Nature: Human Body and the Mind website and looking at their information on the Nervous System and Hearing. Check out the interesting little animation while you are there and see how sound travels through the ear.

p.s. click on the 'OPEN NEW GAME' link on the animation image for and interesting and hopefully educationally instructive experience!!

Link:
Science & Nature: Hearing

Lecture Powerpoint:Week 4: The Ear

Please find below the final copy of the Powerpoint Presentation for the Unit 2 Lectures on the topic of The Ear. A copy of the audio in mp3 format is also included.

Link:
Lecture Powerpoint Unit 2: The Ear
Lecture Audio Unit 2: The Ear

Lecture Extra:Passive Voice

To read more about the Passive Voice covered in today's lecture check out the information on the englisch-hilfen.de/en (Learning English Online) site.

Among the topics covered on the site are:
Active and passive forms in the most common tenses
Active sentence - Passive sentence (two objects)
How to form the passive and
Personal Passive - Impersonal Passive

While there, check out the 'Passive Tense' online exercises here.

Link:
Passive Tense: englisch-hilfen.de

Workshop Powerpoint2: Taking a History 2

Please find below links to the final copy of the Powerpoint Presentation [ and Audio [ for the Practical Class / Workshop for Chapter 2 of the textbook 'Taking a History 2'.

Please note that the final copy of the Powerpoint for Unit 1 has been uploaded along with a zipped file containing the audio. Go back here to get them.

Link:
P/W4: Taking a History 2:1
A/W4: Taking a History 2:1

ESL Web Resources:Randall's ESL Listening Lab

The Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab is a listening Web site created by Randall Davis to help ESL/EFL students improve their listening comprehension skills through practice with self-grading. It has listening activities activities for students of various levels [Easy, Medium, Difficult, Very Difficult] and links to a variety of other sites operated by Randall Davis including Daily ESL, ESL Blog, EZSlang, Train Your Accent and Tips For Students.

Link:
Randall's ESL Listening Lab

Online Medical Journals:JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal, published 48 times per year by the American Medical Association. JAMA is the most widely circulated medical journal in the world.

Founded in 1883 by the American Medical Association and published continuously since then, JAMA publishes original research, reviews, commentaries, editorials, essays, medical news, correspondence, and ancillary content (such as abstracts of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report). [Wikipedia]

Link:
The Journal of the American Medical Association

Medical PodcastsMedical Matters

Medical Matters is a weekly podcast containing the latest medical information and advice from the BBC's Radio 4's health programmes. In Case Notes Dr Mark Porter takes an in-depth look at a different topic each week, speaking to doctors, patients and researchers about the latest treatments. In All in the Mind, psychologist, Claudia Hammond examines how we think and why we behave as we do.

Link:
Medical Matters

EMP Web Resources:Hospital English.com

HospitalEnglish.com contains FREE resources for medical professionals studying English and medical printables for teachers. It hosts medical vocabulary builders, patient counseling activities, disease state directors health care professional articles, medical flashcards, hospital lesson plans, and ESP worksheets. As an evolving web site one can expect that there will be more to come.

Link:
hospitalenglish.com

Message from Simon:Absence of Postings this Weekend

Dear guys, hope you are well. I am writing to apologize for the absence of postings this weekend. I managed to pull a muscle in my back early today and have had to lie down all day waiting for the pain to go away. With any luck, the pain will go away tonight and i will be back posting [and in class] tomorrow.

For those of you however who have been waiting for me to post the Powerpoint for the lecture up to the point where we finished on Wednesday [ie. the beginning of the Grammar Section] you can go here. We will continue on from where we left off next Monday.

For now, be good and happy,

best wishes,

Simon

Online DictionariesMedicinePlus Dicitionary

One of the better/more useful Medical Dictionaries that can be found online is that located on the MedicinePlus website Medicine Plus is a service provided by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US. While you can just type the word that you would like to find, if you're not sure of the spelling, you can just type the first few letters, followed by an asterisk(*) and the dictionary will tell you the options. [p.s. as usual ceck out the rest of the MedicinePlus website for lots of useful stuff!]

Link:
MedicinePlus Dictionary

Lecture Homework:Week 4:1 The Ear

Before next class see if you can do the following activities from the textbook linked below. Please note, while this is not a compulsory activity and your work won't be checked, try and spend just a little time on it.

Exercise 2-IV:

Exercise 2-V:

Exercise 2-XI:

Exercise 2-XIII:

Medical Podcasts:John Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

A weekly podcast called John Hopkins Medicine Podcasts looking at the top medical stories of the week for people ''who want to become informed participants in their own health care'' is produced by the world famous John Hopkins School of Medicine. With Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Rick Lange M.D., professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins and vice chairman of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

Link:
John Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

ESL Podcasts:Pronuncian

According to the Pronuncian website, ''English pronunciation is the most neglected component of ESL, ELL, and EFL programs today. The truth is, when it comes to communication, it's not just what you say; it's how you say it''.

Pronuncian aims to bring this missing subject to the forefront, teaching you online and at your own pace how to speak with an American accent. The web site offers absolutely free access to a large number of their lessons and sounds. Check out the website and subscribe to their podcast following the link below:

Link:
Pronuncian Podcast

Lecture Extras:Pronunction Rules 's' & 'ed'

For the last two weeks we have tried to work out the 'correct' pronunciation of words ending with 'ed' and 's'. As some of you know, there are in fact rules with can help guide us in determining which particular pronunciation to use. To see a [fairly] simple summary of these rules see the posting on the Net Grammar site here.

To find out more about this you can check out the postings on the pronunciation of the 'd' ending on:

- Pronuncian podcast here.
- e Learning English Language website here.

To give yourself an online test on the 'd' ending, check out the test on the English Zone site here

Workshop Extra:Common Medical Abbreviations

As a followup to the discussion on common medical abbreviations in this week's English Workshop/Practical, you can check out the guide to 'Common Medical Abbreviations' on the Clinician's Ultimate Reference site.

As the Wikipedia entry on the subject notes, Abbreviations are used very frequently in medicine. They boost efficiency as long as they are used intelligently. The advantages of brevity should be weighed against the possibilities of crypticness (making the communication harder for others to understand) and ambiguity (having more than one possible interpretation). In other words, a smart communicator uses good shortcuts, but makes sure that other people will understand what he means. Certain medical abbreviations should be avoided to prevent mistakes.

Link:
Common Medical Abbreviations

Online Journals:Britsh Medical Journal

BMJ is a partially open access medical journal. It is among the most influential and widely read peer-reviewed general academic journals in the field of medicine in the world.

The journal is published by the BMJ Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of the British Medical Association that also publishes 24 other journals focusing on various medical specialties. Originally called the British Medical Journal, the title was officially shortened to BMJ in 1988. [Wikipedia]

p.s. Check out the 'Print Edition' link while you search the site!

Link:
British Medical Journal

Lecture Powerpoint:Week 3: Skin

Please find below the final copy of the Powerpoint Presentation for the Week 3 Lectures on the topic of Skin. Please also find a copy of the audio for the Lecture.

Link:
Lecture Powerpoint: Week 3
Lecture Audio : Week 3

Subject Resources:Simon's Timetable

To see a copy of my weekly timetable click on the icon below.





As you will notice, my office hours are on Saturdays [9:00-11:00] , Mondays [10:00-12:00] and Wednesdays [9:00-11:00] and if you want to see me during those times, check out the staff cafeteria of the Medical College [next to the Prayer Room]. If I am not there, phone me to find out where I am.

If you want to see me outside these time [for example, on Sundays, Monday afternoons or Tuesdays ] please make an appointment. I am more than happy to see you outside class/office hours if necessary but would prefer seeing you in groups [i.e. not alone].

Lecture Extra:Medical Roots, Suffixes and Prefixes

For those of you interested in following up on the discussion on the [mostly Latin and Greek] 'roots', 'suffixes and 'prefixes' of medical terms, check out the list to be obtained on the link below to the List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes located on the free internet encyclopedia Wikipedia. Please tell me [gently!] if you find any errors on my part in today's class!

Link:
Medical Roots, Suffixes and Prefixes

Medical Online ResourcesMedicine Online

One of the best sources for definitions of medical terms is the Dictionary that can be found on the Medicineonline.com web site. Check out the rest of the resources to be found on the site while you are there!

Link:
Medicine Online Dictionary

Subject ResourcesSubject Outline

Please find below a link to a copy of the Outline for this subject. If youhave any questions please feel free to ask.

Link:
EFM Subject Outline

Online Journals:Medical Books Review

The online Medical Books Review was founded in 2007 to provide the medical community a social networking home similar to mySpace or Facebook but targeted specifically for Medical Students and Doctors.

The vision of the founder was to provide an online space where Medical Students and Doctors could gather to share and collaborate their information and ideas about medical books.

Link:
Medical Books Review

Medical Podcasts:BBC: Health Check

.
Find below a link to Health Check the BBC World Service's weekly round up of global health stories and topical issues in medicine.

Link:
Health Check

EMP Web Resources:englishmed.com

.
Please find below a link to englishmed.com. An initiative of Elanguest, the site is sponsored sponsored by the European union's Leonardo Da Vinci project.

You will find thousands of exercises on the site and over 1.5 hours of spoken conversations.

Link:
englishmed.com

Workshop Powerpoint:Week 3: Taking a History 1:1

.
Find below a link to final [updated] versions of the Powerpoint Presentation [P] and Audio [A] for the Practical Class / Workshop for Week 3 which was on the topic on 'Taking a History - 1'.

p.s. the audio file will need to be un-zipped. If you have problems, see me.

Link:
P/W 3: Taking a History 1:1
A/W 3: Taking a History 1:1

F.

Subject Resources:Textbook 2

The second text book for this subject will be English_in_ Medicine by Eric_Glenndining and Beverly_Holstrom. English_in_ Medicine is a course for doctors, medical students and other medical professionals who need to communicate with patients and medical colleagues. Each of the seven units focuses on one area of doctor-patient communication, from history-taking and examination to diagnosis and treatment. The course develops all four skills through a wide variety of activities. The book is available from Jaeer Book store in Jeddah. A link to the Pdf is located below.

Link:
English_in_ Medicine

Lecture Powerpoint:Week 1: Introduction

Please find below a link to the Powerpoint for the lectures for Week 1 which were related to the subject Introduction.

Lecture Powerpoint Link:
Week 2: Introduction

Online Journals:The New England Journal of Medicine

The New England Journal of Medicine (N Engl J Med or NEJM) is an English-language peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It is the oldest continuously published medical journal in the world, and is the most widely read, cited, and influential general medical periodical in the world.

The NEJM was founded by Dr. John Collins Warren in 1812[ a quarterly called The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery. For one year, 1827, it was named the New England Medical Review and Journal. In 1828, it became a weekly, and was renamed The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal; one hundred years later, it took on its present name.

It publishes editorials, papers on original research, widely-cited review articles, correspondences, case reports, and has a special section called "Images in Clinical Medicine".[Wikipedia]

Link: The New England Journal of Medicine

Subject Resources:Textbook: English for Medicine

.
Designed specifically for students in the School of Medicine, Taif University by Professor Choudhary Zahid Javid of the Department of Foreign Languages,the textbook fotthis subject is English For Medicine [Part 1].

As the Preface of the book notes, the ...
... textbook is a logical outcome of a comprehensive research project carried out at College of Medicine and Medical Sciences (CMMS) by the author of this textbook during 2008 that determined the linguistic and non-linguistic needs, the academic level and the preferred learning styles of the students at CMMS.

Download:
English for Medicine

EMP Web Resources: Oxford English For Careers: Medicine / Nursing

.
Below is a link to the Student's website for the Medicine 1 textbook in the Oxford English for Careers series.

While the site is linked to themes covered in the Oxford for English Careers: Medicine 1 textbook, you can use the site independently to practice your Professional Medical English listening and vocabulary.

While there, check out the student sites for the Oxford for English Careers: Nursing 1& 2:

Links:
OEC: Medicine 1 Student Site
OEC: Nursing 1 Student Site
OEC: Nursing 2 Student Site

Medical Podcasts: The Health Report

.
The Health Report is a program broadcast by the Australian Broadcast Commission [A.B.C.] each week on its Radio National station

The program aims to appeal to both specialist and mainstream audiences by applying a broad definition of health, and seeing health and medicine within social, scientific and political contexts.

The Health Report is a valued information source for professionals and students in the medical and health professions, as well as attracting a sizeable audience of general listeners seeking jargon-free, easy-to-understand information and analysis on health and medical matters.

Presented by Dr Norman Swan, the program covers wide-ranging topics and issues, among them: cancer, endocrinology, epidemiology, exercise, gastroenterology, gynaecology, health education, mental health, nutrition, obstetrics, paediatrics, physiotherapy, and rheumatology.

Link: The Health Report

Message from SimonWelcome to the Blog

.
This is the first posting on the Simon's Taif Medical English Page blogspot.

The primary aims of this blogspot are to:
1. let you know what is happening in the subject.
2. let you know more about me and your fellow students.
3. provide links to on-line resources [podcasts, webpages, newspapers & journals etc..] related to the themes being dealt with in the course.

As the year proceeds, more uses for the blog will emerge and you will be informed what they are as they do.

For now however, be good and happy, best wishes,

Simon

Final Theoretical Exam:Key Words

Among the words you might come across in the exam you have not heard /seen before of are: actin, aerobic, autonomous, bound, brachii, caliber, calories, connected, contractile , contraction, controlled, derived, discriminated, distributed, embryonic, endomysium, epimysium, erection, essential, fascicles, fibers, gross, grouped, intensity, locomotion, lumen, mesodermal, myofibrils, myosin, occurs, perimysium, peristalsis, resistance, sarcomeres, skeletal, smooth, spindles, stimulus, stress, triggered, vertebrates

Don't worry too much about the obviously scientific medical words. You will not need to understand what they refer to in order to answer the questions. Worry more about the everyday nouns, adjectives and verbs as they are more important. Also remember to make sure you know the meaning of the basic prepositions. For example: through, between, from, without, of, by, throughout, by, at, underneath, with