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.
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.
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.
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!]
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.
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''.Link:
Pronuncian Podcast
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.
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. 
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!
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.
To see a copy of my weekly timetable click on the icon below.
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!
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!
Please find below a link to a copy of the Outline for this subject. If youhave any questions please feel free to ask.
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.
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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
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.
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englishmed.com
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'.
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.
