6. Answer the questions:

1. What careers can studying medicine lead to?

2. What do medical schools teach?

3. What parts is the course structure traditionally divided into?

4. What does the pre-clinical part of medical education include?

5. What does the clinical part of medical education include?

6. What do medical students do during their course of studies ?

7. How many terms is each academic year divided into?

7. Find the equivalents of the following word combinations in the text:

Лікування внутрішніх хвороб, кліничний курс, теоретичне навчання, структура та довжина курсу, спеціалісти –консультанти у галузі психіатрії, відвідувати лекції, мати практичні заняття з різних дисціплін, здобувати глибокі знання з анатомії, випускники медичних учбових закладів, наприкінці кожного семестру, виконувати лабораторні роботи, відвідувати анатомічний театр.

8. Form names of medical specialists from the names of fields of medicine with the help of suffix -ist.

For example: pharmacology – pharmacologist

Psychiatry, dermatology, physiology, neurology, immunology, gynecology, anesthesiology, pathology, traumatology, neurology, ophthalmology, oncology, urology, endocrinology, venereology.

Pay attention how names of these medical specialists are formed:

obstetrics - obstetrician

paediatrics - paediatrician

surgery – surgeon

9. Fill in the gaps with active vocabulary:

1. Each … is usually divided into two …

2. A medical university is a post –secondary …

3. During their course of studies medical students … and have practical classes in different subjects.

4. Medical students typically … in both basic science andpractical clinical coursework during their …in medical school.

5. Students perform different laboratory works and attend dissecting room… of Anatomy.

6. The clinical part of the course includes learning …, …, and… .

10. Give definitions of all the medical specialists from Exercise 6 using the model:

Model: Paediatrician - a medical practitioner who specializes in paediatrics.

11. Fill the gaps with there is/are, there was/were:

1. … always many young people who want to study medicine.

2. … three people in my class at school who wanted to study medicine.

3. … a party in this club last Friday.

4. … nobody here who knows him.

5. … a cinema there 10 years ago.

6. … many subjects we have to learn during our first and second years of studying.

7. … lots of things he had to do last week.

8. … something I want to tell you.

12. Make the following sentences negative and interrogative:

For example: There are some new words in the text.

There are no new words in the text.

Are there any new words in the text?

1. There are some interesting books on the shelf.

2. There is a problem about it.

3. There was a person there who spoke Russian.

4. There were some questions he wanted to ask.

13. Fill in the gaps with appropriate prepositions:

1. They will have classes … different subjects during their firstd year at university.

2. … the end of each term students take module controls …most subjects.

3. Thousands of young people … the world enter medical schools every year.

4. They didn’t have time to get ready … their exam.

5. Studying medicine can lead … caree as a doctor.

6. Traditionally the course structure is devided …pre-clinical and clinical parts.