Content

1. Unit 1. Text. General Practitioner I

Nouns, numerals, articles and pronouns. Simple, Continuous, Perfect and

Perfect Continuous Active tenses. Irregular nouns of Latin and Greek origin.

2. Unit 2. Text. General Practitioner II

Simple, Continuous, Perfect Passive tenses. Question forms. Adverb.

Irregular nouns of Latin and Greek origin.

3. Unit 3. Text. Nurses in the UK.

Suffixes and prefixes, linking words and phrases. Infinitive. Irregular nouns

of Latin and Greek origin.

4. Unit 4. Text. Health professionals in the UK

Linking words, phrasal verbs and words. Participles. Absolute Participle

Construction.Reported Speech. Irregular nouns of Latin and Greek origin.

5. Unit 5. Text. Hospitals in the United Kingdom.

. Participle. Verbal Noun and Gerund. Adjectives followed by prepositions.

Irregular nouns of Latin and Greekorigin.

6.Unit 6. Text.Primary care

Complex Object (with Participle and Infinitive).Prepositions following nouns.

Irregular nouns of Latin and Greek origin.

7. Unit7. Text. Medical education in the United Kingdom (Part 1)

Complex Subject and Complex Object.Direct and Indirect Speeches.

8. Unit 8. Text. Medical education in the United Kingdom (Part 2)

Direct and Indirect Speeches. Revision of the Participle construction and

Passive Voice.

9. Unit 9. Text.The international doctor.

Adverbial phrases of frequency. Conditional sentences (types 1,2,3)

Revision of the Participle construction and Gerund

10. Unit 10. Text. Research articles.

Subjunctive Mood. Sequences of tences.

Revision of Conditional sentences.

11. Unit 11. Text. How to write an abstract for the research article.

Subjunctive Mood (I wish). Revision of Conditional sentences.

12. Unit 12. Text. Conference presentations.

Quantity expressions. Revision of the Subjunctive Mood (I wish.

Conditional sentences. Sequence of tenses.

13. Unit 13. Text.Case presentations

Expressions beginning with prepositions. Revision of grammar.

14. Keys

15. Appendix I (Irregular nouns of Latin and Greek origin)

16. Appendix II (Often used abbreviations)

17. Grammar revision tables

18. English-English vocabulary

19. References

Unit 1

General Practitioner 1

In the United Kingdom, doctors, also known as medical practitioners or general practitioners, should have been qualified: have a university degree in medicine at least 5 years training after medical school(see further information in the unit about Education).They also have to be registered in the General Medical Council's listin order to practise. The doctor who treats patients, in comparison with that who only does res earch, is called a clinician. The doctor who provides primary care for patients is known as a general practitioner (GP), or family doctor. GPs provide a full range of care within the local community: dealing with problems that often unite physical, psychological and social components.

During the GP specialty training program, the medical practitioner have to pass a knowledge-based exam with multiple choice questions called the Applied Knowledge Test (AKT).

They increasingly work in teams with other professionals, giving a hand to patients to take responsibility for their own health.

Specialties

Specialist doctors, for example paediatricians, cardiologists, neurologists, traumatologists and others generally work in hospitals. However, those who practise outside the National Health Service, providing private health care, may have consulting rooms outside a hospital - for example in the famous Harley Street in London.

In the United Kingdom of Great Britain there are two main branches of medicine as surgery and internal medicine, and the doctors who practise these branches are usually called surgeons and physicians.

A cardiologist	specializes in is a specialist in	diseases of the heart and circulation, or cardiology.
A geriatrician		diseases of elderly patients, or geriatrics.
An anaesthetist		anaesthetics.
An obstetrician		delivering of newborns
A psychiatrist		counseling

Choosing a specialty

Choosing a specialty is one of the hardest decisions medical students and foundation doctors will have to make in their careers. After graduating from medical school medical students have to decide what to specialize in. They need more experience before their decision, for instance if they are attracted to the idea of paediatrics because they like to work with children or prefer to work with adults because they fancy geriatrics. Some students are not interested in detailed anatomy, so the surgical specialties like neurosurgery don’t really appeal them. In surgery they have to be good with their hands whereas it is not a problem for those who have already assisted several times having done some minor ops by themselves. Moreover, surgeons have to be able to do the same thing again and again without getting bored, like tying off cut arteries and so on. Surgeons have to make decisions fast while some doctors like to have time to think which means that surgery is probably not right for them.