1. a camera you can swallow . . .
the pill cam

2. Starter
How do doctors find out what’s wrong with your external symptoms are unclear?
What is an endoscopy?
(if you don’t know, try to work out the meaning by breaking up the word)

3. The pill cam article http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv8TAaKGDF8
Film clips:
Video clip: (0:53) – demo of pill cam
Video clip: (1:46) – a ‘tethered’ pill cam
Video clip: (1:10) – disassembled pill cam
Video clip: (1:06) inventor of pill cam
Video clip: (0:58) alternative to pill cam: endoscopy

4. Activity
Magazine advertisement Write a 250-word magazine advertisement for the Capsule Endoscope. Think up a brand name and a catchy slogan. Within the advertisement, compare the features of a pill cam to an endoscopy and a colonoscopy (and if you can't make it sound more attractive, you're not trying hard enough!) Remember that the procedure is quite expensive, and you'll have to convince the public it's good value.

5. Research at home Digital recording Radio transmission
Find out more about the technologies that are used in a pill cam - for example:
Digital recording
Radio transmission

6. Worksheet Pill Cam – the journey
Imagine someone has swallowed a pill cam.
Can you name the organs that the pill cam will pass through?
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Use the outline sketch provided to draw in the route
the pill cam takes as it travels through various organs
on its journey from the mouth to the anus. Draw in
and label the organs it passes through.
How does the pill cam travel through the body?
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Could it get stuck? Explain

7. Reference for image: http://commons. wikimedia