Medical English

MLA Jaime García y Espinosa

E-mail:

jaime.garcia@upaep.mx

PROGRAM TIMETABLEBROAD GOAL

March 13

April 17May 29June 12June 26

5 sessions

Friday, 4-7 pm

Comprender casos clínicos e interpretar textos médicos en

inglés relacionándolos con su conocimiento médico…

mejorar su puntaje en el ENARM.

SPECIFIC GOALS

Desarrollar habilidades en la compresión de textos médicos en ingles.

Uso de estrategias de lectura.

SPECIFIC GOALS

Fortalecimiento del vocabulario médico, terminologías, sistemas

corporales, funciones fisiológicas, especialidades médicas y patologías.

SPECIFIC GOALS

Dominar las dificultades y los errores habituales en las traducciones médicas

y científicas.

Familiarizarse con los rasgos principales de la lengua inglesa y sus usos

aplicados a la medicina.

SPECIFIC GOALS

Let’s get started

Find someone who……comes from the north of Mexico

…speaks another language

…rides a bicycle to work

…listens to rock music

... likes to read books for pleasure

…is single

Write down your findings and report them to the class

Web Resources

https://sites.google.com/site/EPmedicalEnglish/

OUR CLASS WEBSITE

• Describe your specialty role (or the one you intend to acquire) and

the instruments used.

• Also specify what parts of the body you focus on.

Vocabulary practice

Vocabulary practice

Goal

Key vocabulary

Physician

GP (general practitioner)

a doctor, especially one who is a specialist in general medicine and not surgery.

a doctor who is trained in general medicine and who works in the local community, not in a hospital

AmE

BrE

(OUP, 2014)

AmE : American EnglishBrE : British English

NOUNS & ADJECTIVESProblem

Patients

Emergency

System

Component

Activity

Disorder

Pediatric

Diabetic

-al

Medical

Psychological

Visual

Make a list of terminology commonly used in your area using this nouns and adjectives

EXERCISE

See you next week!

Sesión 2WELCOME

EXERCISE 1 Find –ing words as adjectives

Find –ing words as nouns

Find –ing words as gerunds (after prepositions)

If you finish soon, answer the comprehension test T/F

EXERCISE 2 Find passive voice in present

Find passive voice in past

Which are singular?

Which are plural?

Which adverbs usually accompany passive voice constructions?

If you finish soon, answer the comprehension test T/F

EXERCISE 3 Identify auxiliary verbs in the text: may,

should and will and translate the ideas into Spanish.

Answer the comprehension questionnaire next.

HOMEWORK Identify all elements seen in this session,

translate the ideas and answer the comprehension questionnaire.

Session 3

Welcome

• Presente perfecto en voz pasiva

• Conectores lógicos: although y while.

• Relative pronouns which, that, who

• Verbos irregulares en pasado

Objetivos

Presente perfecto en voz pasiva

What discovery has been recently made?

A lot of bridges have been built in Puebla, causing traffic to increase.

Conectores lógicos

Although: aunque

Although the sun was shining, it wasn't very warm.

• While: mientras queWhile some people think RMV is changing the face of Puebla,others regard him as a tyrant.

Relative pronouns

That: (que)

Who: (quien, quienes)

Which:(el cual, la cual, los cuales, las cuales)

That

In a statement, Mr. Gulati said:“Our goal is for governance of FIFA that is responsible, accountable, transparent and focused solely on the best interests of the game.” (NY Times)

(OUP, 2015)

Used as a relative pronoun to introduce a part of a sentence which refers to the person, thing or time you have been talking about.

used to give more information about somebody

Who

If UEFA does seek some sort of extreme move, it will likely be little more than another road bump for Mr. Blatter, who has

endured through seemingly everything.

(NY Times)

(OUP, 2015)

Which

The latest arrests of several top soccer

officials, which took place in a raid here

Wednesday on behalf of United States

authorities… (NY Times)

used to be exact about the thing or things that you mean.

(OUP, 2015)

Verbos irregulares

Most common Irregular verbs

Su forma cambia en pasado simpe y algunas veces participio

Ver lista en p. 116

Leer el caso clínico

Social Phobia

Identificar cada elemento visto en esta sesión

Responder a las preguntas de opción múltiple.

Answers

Presente perfecto en voz pasiva

Line 26: has been challenged

Conectores lógicos

3: while63: while74: while81: while

Relative pronouns

7: That social phobia differed from other public disorders…12: the review that follows28: some investigator believe that patients33: socially fearful patients as personality carries the risk that pharmacological interventions…37: DSM-III asserts that40: implying that patients45: patients who develop55: is that primary social phobics61: we observe that patients…76: Aimes et al reported similirar differences that were significant.95: Our preliminary finding…is that social phobics show a lower rate…

Social Phobia1.A2.C3.B4.A5.B6.B7.A8.A9.A10.C11.C12.C

Verbos irregulares en pasado 13: was undertaken, is known 19-20: were found 69: have found 71: had 72: sought

Session 4

Decimotercera lección

A) SUJETOS Y PREDICADOS

A) SUJETOS Y PREDICADOS

C) Posmodificación por participio pasado In the cases reported here…

Diarrhea caused by Shigella rotavirus and Giardia…

*El participio da más información sobre un sustantivo

o cosa de la que se habla.

D) Posmodificación por adjetivo Staphylococci (resistant to antimicrobials)

Coagulase promotes abcess formation and protects staphylococci from bacteriostatic substances (present in normal serum)

*El adjetivo especifica las características del sustantivo

Decimocuarta lecciónPosmodificación con -ing

Patients suffering myocardial infarction…

*El gerundio especifica la acción que hace o recibe el sustantivo

Decimoquinta lección

Due to:

Most of the problems were due to human error.

E.g.

1. B2. A3. B4. B5. A6. B7. B

8. C9. A10. C

Congenital hypothyroidism

Answers

Session 5

Objetivos:• Conectores de contraste, aditivos y causales.

• Comprensión de lectura textos médicos en inglés.• Prueba de casos médicos en inglés.

Despite applying for hundreds of jobs, he is still out of work.

There is little chance that he will succeed in getting a job. Nevertheless, it is important that he tries

I love smoking but I must quit.

But, however: used to introduce a statement that

contrasts with something that has just been said

Despite: used to show that something happened or is

true although something else might have happened

to prevent it.

Nevertheless: despite something that you have just

mentioned.

CONECTORES LÓGICOS

Contraste

Just because I don't complain, people think I'm satisfied.

She’s in a good mood

today,

hence she won’t complain.

CONECTORES LÓGICOS

Hence: for this reason

Because: for the reason that

Causal

He said he had not discussed the matter with her. Furthermore, he had not even contacted her.

Also, it’s a sad day for him.

CONECTORES LÓGICOS

Aditivos

Also: in addition; too.

Furthermore: in addition to what has just been stated.

Decimonovena lección, pp. 189-194

Vigésima lección, pp. 197-200

Reading comprehension exercises

TEXTO I (Magnesium Deficiency and Diuretics)1. F2. F3. V

TEXTO II (Hazards of hyposplenism)

1. A la condición que se desarrolla después de la

esplenectomía

2. Al cuadro sanguíneo que acompaña a la atrofia

del bazo en el “sprue”.

Answers19 lección

pp. 189-194

TEXTO II (Hazards of hyposplenism)

3. Los cambios en la apariencia de los glóbulos rojos,

presencia de células blanco, los esquistocitos, cuerpos

de Howell-Jolly, leucocitosis moderada y trombocitosis.

4. Porque la apariencia del frotis sanguíneo es muy típica.

5. No, solo conlleva deficiencias menores en la inmunidad

humoral y celular.

TEXTO III (Treatment of Alcohol Withdrawal

Syndrome)

1. A una sección de cartas al editor

2. Intravenoso, intramuscular

Answers

TEXTO III (Treatment of Alcohol Withdrawal

Syndrome)

3. El clorodiazepoxido y el diazepan deben

administrarse oralmente en el tratamiento del

síndrome de supresión alcohólica

4. Joshep G. Guiffrida

5. Alan A. Wartenberg

6. Joshep G. Guiffrida

TEXTO IV (Unusual injury….)

1. B

2. C

Answers

TEXTO I (Cryptic stage of sleeping…)

1. F2. F

3. V4. V

Answers 20 lecciónpp. 197-200

TEXTO II (Kidney pseudotumour…)

1. Urografía excretora, ultrasonografía, gamagrafía.

2. A través de la parte media del riñón izquierdo

3. Una hipertrofia de la columna de Bertin.

TEXTO III (Diuresis or urinary…)1. V2. V

3. Diuresis forzada por alcali

Read the research report and answer multiple choice answers

Sleep panick attacks: new clinical findings and theoretical implications

pp. 75-79

1. A2. C3. B4. A5. C6. B

7. B8. C9. A10. C11. C

Answers

Sleep panick attacks: new clinical findings and theoretical

implications