Hospital English: Patient Case Studies

By Mark A. Cox RPh

Medical English for the Healthcare Professional. Hospital English: Patient Case Studies is a medical English textbook designed for university level students studying English as a foreign language. The course teaches medical vocabulary, introduces language for case studies, and helps students to discuss common medical problems and conditions with confidence in English. This is a core English curriculum with listening, reading, writing, and speaking activities with each unit. This course was designed for nursing students, but can be used with any healthcare specialty and welfare studies. The course book provides a foundation for necessary medical English to ready students for reading medical literature and communicating with patients or clients. It covers symptoms, treatments, medical testing, life-style modification therapies, medication, and follow-up care plans. The students are not required to have previous medical knowledge or training. To start, the textbook covers simple medical problems (infections, burns, allergies, broken bones.) These are common medical issues with symptoms and treatments that university freshman will have had experience with or are familiar with. It builds up to more complex health conditions and treatments as the course progresses. There are 12 units in all, covering: Unit 1: Infections Unit 2: Fractures Unit 3: Dementia Unit 4: Allergies Unit 5: Burns Unit 6: Hypertension Unit 7: Food Poisoning Unit 8: Arthritis Unit 9: Diabetes Unit 10: Pneumonia Unit 11: Metabolic Syndrome Unit 12: Anorexia Nervosa The unit topics spread a range of specialties and departments in the hospital, including orthopedics, radiology, cardiology, endocrinology, psychiatry, pediatrics, pulmonology, physical therapy and more. Hospital English is a website established in 2006 that has been providing materials for students and teachers to learn and teach medical English. The creator of Hospital English and author of this textbook is Mark A. Cox, RPh, MAAL, a licensed US pharmacist (1997) and experienced English teacher (1999~ to date.) Mr. Cox teaches medical English at a nursing technical college and at a university in Nagano, Japan. This course, Hospital English: Patient Case Studies, and other materials on Hospital English were designed for his nursing students and human care and welfare students. You can find supporting materials, medical flash cards, sample assessments, and more advanced resources as well at HospitalEnglish.com The editors for Hospital English: Patient Case Studies are two US registered nurses with experience working all across the United States and abroad. Through their careers, they have provided direct patient care and also served in management roles in hospital and patient care settings.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CY8XKZBV
• ISBN13: 9798880202171
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.2" x 8.5"