- •Vocabulary and reading
- •I. Read and study the word list:
- •II. Read and translate the text. What is Life?
- •III. What is missing? Find the words in reading:
- •IV. Answer the questions:
- •Grammar and speaking:
- •III. Compare two Voices and translate sentences:
- •Reading and speaking
- •I. Read the text below. Are Viruses Alive?
- •II. Take part in the discussion of the virus role for the disease origin. Listening and Speaking
- •1. Listen and answer the questions: Text 3 What is life? The physicist who sparked a revolution in biology
- •Test yourself
- •Exams situation
- •4. Translate the sentences:
- •5. Remember the combination in order to write and speak correctly:
- •Over to you
- •Reading and writing Academic style. Structure and Cohesion
- •Lesson 2
- •Vocabulary and reading
- •I. Read and study wordlist
- •I. Read and translate the text. Preface
- •II. What is missing? Find the words in reading:
- •III. Answer the questions:
- •IV. Choose the correct answer:
- •V. Grammar and speaking:
- •Vocabulary to the text below
- •The role of theory in question formulation
- •Reading and speaking
- •1. Here are some brief biographies of the prominent scientists. Read and translate them.
- •2. Ask questions to each other about biography. Reading and writing
- •Listening and speaking
- •I. Fill each gap using one of the following auxiliary verbs. They may be used in more than one place.
- •Inventions: antibiotics
- •II. Before watching study the new vocabulary:
- •III. After watching answer the following questions:
- •Discussion
- •IV. Write a brief summary of the text.
- •II. Answer the questions:
- •II. Take part in the discussion of recent advances in clinical biology based on the text:
- •Plenary Lecture 15
- •Role of Professional Antigen Presenting Cells in the Genesis of Immune Response to Protein Therapeutics
- •Dr. Suryararathi Dasgupta
- •III. What are the main advances? Express your opinion using phrases: It’s rather surprising, I wonder about, I’d like to stress. Test yourself
- •2. Read, translate sentences. Find the verbs in Active and Passive Voice:
- •3. Read the text. Define the verbs used in different Tenses. How are processes and procedures described.
- •Exams situation
- •Lesson 3 Topic: Teaching activity of a scientist
- •Vocabulary and reading
- •I. Read and study the wordlist:
- •II. Read and translate the text. Medical student education in the United States of America
- •III. Answer the questions?
- •IV. Try to activate the new vocabulary in the following tasks:
- •V. Pay attention to different cases of using words:
- •23 Cases of using ‘hands-on’ from 118. Try to choose the meaning:
- •Grammar and speaking
- •Department Obstetrics Gynecology
- •IV. Read the text. What means of teaching are used?
- •Types of examination
- •V. Discuss the process of teaching and learning. Reading and speaking
- •Listening and writing
- •I. Try to understand the text and answer questions.
- •II. Listen to the text writing down English equivalents for the following Russian words and expressions.
- •III. Write down the main idea of the report.
- •Over to you Exam’s situation
- •Lesson 4 Topic: Curriculum Development. Curriculum Overview and Organisation
- •Vocabulary and reading
- •I. Read and study the wordlist:
- •II. Read and translate the text.
- •III. Answer the questions:
- •IV. Give Russian equivalents of the following phrases:
- •V. Pay attention to the importance of words and collocation.
- •VI. Try to use the new vocabulary in your own sentences and questions. Grammar and speaking
- •I. Some information about future tenses:
- •II. Pay attention to the use of the future construction. Compose your own sentences.
- •Reading and speaking
- •I. Read and translate the text. Dmd Programm
- •II. Read the sentences in the text which imply the ideas:
- •Listening and speaking
- •Reading and writing Some common types of error
- •Comparative constructions
- •Showing non-equivalence
- •Over to you
- •Exams situation
- •Lesson 5 Topic: Specialities. How to become a good specialist and to develop professional experience?
- •Vocabulary and reading
- •I. Answer the questions:
- •II. Study the text. Choosing a specialty
- •III. Here is a random selection of more than 20 solutions from the 4864 found. Translate them.
- •Grammar and speaking
- •II. Look through the text. How possibility, capacity or ability, impossibility, probability, opinions, volition wanting are expressed?
- •Reading and speaking
- •I. Look through the lists of qualifications.
- •Listening and writing
- •Writing tips
- •III. Read the following notes and write a reply of around 200 words.
- •Exam’s situation
- •Lesson 6 Topic: Recent advances in medicine. Narrow field of investigation.
- •Vocabulary and reading
- •1. Read and translate the text from the field of recent advances in clinical medicine.
- •Grammar and speaking
- •Reading and speaking
- •1. Read and translate the text from the section. “Recent advances in clinical medicine”:
- •2. Use the following words in sentences of your own:
- •III. Comment on the basic points of the text using phrases:
- •IV. Give more information on the medical problems highlighted in the text. Reading and writting
- •I. Read and translate the text.
- •I. Write a brief summary of the text
- •II. Translate the following statements and share your opinion on them.
- •III. Translate the abstract.
- •Vocabulary and reading
- •2. Read and try to remember.
- •3. Complete the table with words from a and b opposite. The first one has been done for you.
- •4. Make word combinations using a word from each box. Look at b and c opposite to help you.
- •5. Complete the conversation. Look at b opposite to help you.
- •6. Choose the correct word to complete each sentence. Look at b and c opposite to help you.
- •Remember the vocabulary:
- •Grammar and speaking
- •Shall and should in use
- •Reading and speaking
- •Reading and writing
- •Over to you:
- •Lesson 8 Topic: Symptoms and signs. Diagnosis and treatment
- •Vocabulary and reading
- •1. Read and translate the text The Pancreas and Diabetes
- •Grammar and speaking
- •Grammar in Use. Passives and pseudo-passives
- •Reading and speaking
- •1. Pay attention to the ways of describing problems:
- •Reading and writing
- •Lesson 9 medical recent techniques
- •Vocabulary and reading
- •1. Read and translate the text. Therapeutic Angiogenesis: How Does it Work?
- •Grammar and speaking Position of adverb (grammar in use). Infinitive
- •Introduction
- •Listening and speaking Angiogenesis
- •Reading and writing
- •Case Study 16-3: Diabetes Treatment with an Insulin Pump
- •2. Case study questions
- •Lesson 10 How to start a research. Types of studies. Areas of medical researches in medicine
- •Vocabulary and reading
- •I. Read and translate the text
- •Variables
- •II. Complete the table with words:
- •III. Complete the sentences with a word from the text.
- •Grammar and speaking
- •4. The construction “rather than” is translated as «а не».
- •Reading and speaking
- •I. Read and try to understand the text “All about clinical trials”. All About Clinical Trials
- •II. Answer the questions:
- •III. Write down English equivalents:
- •I. Try to learn the given abstract by heart.
- •II. Write down the algorithm of the research being undertaken. Reading and writing
- •IV. Write a brief summary of the text.
- •V. There are the following means of data presentation:
- •VI. Some people feel that approximating is unscientific. What do you think?
- •VII. Line graphs. Pie charts:
- •VIII. Practise describing the chart. Medical research
- •Over to you
Lesson 10 How to start a research. Types of studies. Areas of medical researches in medicine
Vocabulary and reading
be similar - идентичный
compare - сравнивать
expose - оказывать воздействие, сравнивать
contribute to - способствовать
relationship - связь
intervention - влияние
proof - доказательство
equal - равный
step - шаг
hospital records - история болезни
reliable - надежный
trial - испытание
I. Read and translate the text
In a case-control study, a group of people suffering from a disease (the cases) is compared with a group who do not have the disease, but are similar in other ways (the controls). The two groups, the participants in the study, are compared to see if they were exposed to a possible risk factor or not. A risk factor is something which may contribute to the cause of disease. This type of study is often used as a first step in identifying the cause of a disease.
Cohort studies
In a cohort study, a group (cohort) of people (subjects) who are similar is studied over a period of years (a longitudinal study) to determine if there is a relationship between exposure to a risk factor and development of a disease. At the beginning of a prospective study, none of the subjects has the disease. They are followed up for a number of years, and at the end of the period, those who have developed the disease are compared with those who have not. In a retrospective study, the researchers look back, by studying hospital records for example, at what has happened in the past, comparing subjects who have developed the disease with those who have not. In a cohort study and in a case-control study the subjects are only observed and there is no intervention such as drug treatment or surgery. A cohort study is a more reliable method of identifying the cause of disease than a case-control study. But for proof of cause, a trial is needed.
Trials
In a trial, a group of people who are suffering from a disease are given a particular treatment. To determine the effectiveness of the treatment, a controlled trial is performed. Two groups are studied: one group (the study group) is given the treatment and the other (the control group) is not. The controls may be given a placebo – something which seems to be identical to the treatment but which has no effect. If there is an equal possibility that patients may be selected for the study group or for the controls, the trial is said to be randomized. A randomized controlled trial makes bias – error in a study which influences the results – less likely. An additional way of removing bias is blinding: patients do not know if they are receiving the treatment or the placebo. If, in addition, the researchers do not know who is receiving the treatment, the trial is a double blind trial. Randomized controlled trials are used to test treatments or preventive measures.
Variables
If the subjects in a study are all aged 50, then age is a constant in the study. If their ages range from 20 to 70, then age is a variable. A confounding variable is any variable which is associated with both the disease and the risk factor being studied (for example, smoking in the case of cooks and lung cancer discussed in Unit 44). If such variables exist there is no way for the researcher to know whether the difference in the risk factor or the confounding variable is the one that is truly causing the disease.