1. English for Professionals
A.A – 2015
Dott.ssa Claudia Tomaciello

2. What we are going to do… Scientific Texts/Articles
Grammar (Speaking, Writing)
Listening
(Contemp. English)
Specific Vocabulary

3. Your study companions
E. Glendinning, R. Howard, Professional English in Use Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 2008
R. Murphy, English Grammar in Use, Fourth Edition (with answers), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012

4. Introducing Professionals
HCAs
work under the guidance of a qualified healthcare professional.
Taking care of patients
Different role - Healthcare setting.
Hospital vs GP
general practice/ practitioner (family doctor) –To run a practice. They also perform minor surgeries.
Orthoptists
Work alongside ophtalmologists
Diagnose/detect and treat a range of eye conditions.(children)
Work in hospital/community healthcare
Healthcare assistants (HCAs) work in hospital or community settings, such as GP surgeries, under the guidance of a qualified healthcare professional. The role can be varied depending upon the healthcare setting. (Allied health professionals)
GP – general practice/practitioner (family doctor) – provides primary health care. Works in a practice/health center - to run a practice. They also perform minor surgeries. Hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized staff and equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which has an emergency department. A district hospital typically is the major health care facility in its region, with large numbers of beds for intensive care and long-term care. Specialised hospitals include trauma centres, rehabilitation hospitals,children's hospitals, seniors' (geriatric) hospitals, and hospitals for dealing with specific medical needs such as psychiatric problems (seepsychiatric hospital), certain disease categories. Specialised hospitals can help reduce health care costs compared to general hospitals. Ateaching hospital combines assistance to people with teaching to medical students and nurses. The medical facility smaller than a hospital is generally called a clinic. Hospitals have a range of departments (e.g., surgery, and urgent care) and specialist units such as cardiology. Some hospitals will have outpatient departments and some will have chronic treatment units. Common support units include a pharmacy,pathology, and radiology.

5. Lesson 1 – Part 1
Getting to know the human body

6. Body parts Ankle Chest Chin Hip Knee Navel Palm Shin Thigh Toes
Waist .
Chest
Navel
Waist
Palm
Hip
CHIN UP
Thigh
Knee
Shin
Ankle
Toes

7. Sole Shoulder Wrist Fingers Elbow Neck Heel Back of the hand
Back of the knee
Lower back
Upper back
Shoulder
Neck
Upper back
Elbow
Wrist
Lower back
Back of the hand
Fingers
Back of the knee
Heel
Sole

8. More on the human body… Head Upper body Lower body
Scalp, Hair, Brain, Skull
Eyes, nose, ears, lips
Mouth, teeth, cheeks, cheek bones, jaw
Neck – attaches head to upper body
Upper body
Collar bone, chest (breasts), nipples
Ribcage, lungs, heart, stomach, waist, navel (belly button)
Arms – armpit, muscles (triceps, biceps), forearm
Name of the fingers (Thumb, Index, Middle, Ring, Little – Pinky)
Lower body
Reproductive organs (penis, vagina, uterus), hips,
Buttocks, or rear end or bum
Intestines, bladder, liver, kidneys
Legs – thigh, knee, shin, calf, ankle / Toes – big toe…

9. The Eye
The eye is a slightly asymmetrical globe, about an inch in diameter. The front part of the eye (the part you see in the mirror) includes:
• The iris (the pigmented part) • The cornea (a clear dome over the iris) • The pupil (the black circular opening in the iris that lets light in) • The sclera (the white part) • The conjunctiva (a thin layer of tissue covering the front of the eye, except the cornea)
Just behind the iris and pupil lies the lens, which helps to focus light on the back of the eye. Most of the eye is filled with a clear gel called the vitreous. Light projects through the pupil and the lens to the back of the eye. The inside lining of the eye is covered by special light-sensing cells that are collectively called the retina. The retina converts light into electrical impulses. Behind the eye, the optic nerve carries these impulses to the brain. The macula is a small extra-sensitive area within the retina that gives central vision. It is located in the center of the retina and contains the fovea, a small depression or pit at the center of the macula that gives the clearest vision.
Eye color is created by the amount and type of pigment in the iris. Multiple genes inherited from each parent determine a person’s eye color. The dark-brown vascular coat of the eye between the sclera and the retina. Also called choroid coat, choroid membrane.
EYE TYPES SHAPES!

10. Medical Jargon Collarbone Windpipe Breastbone Belly
Techincal Terms
Clavicle
Trachea
Sternum
Abdomen
Umbilicus
Intestines
Carpus
Patella
Tibia
Talus
Calcaneus
Collarbone
Windpipe
Breastbone
Belly
Navel or belly button
Bowel
Wrist
Kneecap
Shin
Ankle
Heel bone
Explain jargon what it means 1
:  the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity, group, profession, or field of study <medical jargon>

11. The _____ is located in the middle of the arm
Jamie broke his _______ while he was skiing
She dislocated her _________ during the softball game
My mother can’t walk because of her sprained _______
Light passes to the retina through the ______
The ______ is a white fibrous tissue covering the eyeball.
elbow
leg/ankle
shoulder
ankle
iris
sclera

12. Idioms with body parts Sensing a situation Something/someone annoying
Gut feeling
Pain in the neck
A pat on the back
Slap on the wrist
A slip of the tongue
Hold/bite your tongue
Easy on the eye
Get off on the wrong foot
Joined at the hip
The upper hand
At the top of your lungs
Blow your mind
Sensing a situation
Something/someone annoying
Someone did good
Punishment/You did wrong
A mistake speaking
Saying something inappropriate
Pleasant to look at
Start something in a bad way
Two inseparable people
You’re in the stronger position
Screaming louder
To surprise, entertain, amaze
Gut The alimentary canal or a portion thereof, especially the intestine or stomach.
b. The embryonic digestive tube, consisting of the foregut, the midgut, and the hindgut.
2. guts The bowels; entrails; viscera.
>>Test yourselves with the following video…<<

13. Put the idioms in the right place
joined at the hip
Jack and Hanna are ________. They’re always together.
I misspelled ‘America’. It was a ___________
Billy got a ____________ because he tried to steal his brother’s cookies.
This painting is very _________ . You just can’t stop looking at it.
I have a ___________ that something bad is going to happen.
By halftime, the opponents seem to have __________.
slip of the tongue
slap on the wrist
easy on the eye
feeling in my guts
the upper hand

14. People…and the Hospital
Part 2
People…and the Hospital

15. The Hospital ER (Emergency Room, US / Casualty, UK) A & E
(Accident and Emergency, UK) OR
(Operating Room, US/ Operating Theatre, UK)
ICU
(Intensive Care Unit) -> Units & Departments (Psychiatric Unit/Ophthalmology Department)
Ward/s
(example: Maternity Ward)
Pre-op and Post-op
Dispensary - medication and medical supplies
Consulting Room
Morgue (Mortuary, UK)
An acronym is an abbreviation formed from the initial components in a phrase or a word – individual letters or parts of words
The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which has an emergency department. A district hospital typically is the major health care facility in its region, with large numbers of beds for intensive care and long-term care. Specialised hospitals include trauma centres, rehabilitation hospitals,children's hospitals, seniors' (geriatric) hospitals, and hospitals for dealing with specific medical needs such as psychiatric problems (seepsychiatric hospital), certain disease categories. Specialised hospitals can help reduce health care costs compared to general hospitals. Ateaching hospital combines assistance to people with teaching to medical students and nurses. 
Basically if you are admitted to hospital you will stay on a ward. It may be the Cardiology ward.  When you go for treatment as an outpatient, you will go to the Cardiology Outpatients Department. The only places where there are beds for patients that aren't called wards are places like "The Special Care Baby Unit" "The Intensive Care Unit" "High Dependency Unit".  This is in the UK.
DEPARTMENTS

16. The People in the Hospital
Anesthetist - Doctor – Midwife - Surgeon – Patient – Nurse – Charge Nurse – Sister
Who diagnoses illnesses?
Who operates in a OR?
Who is ill and in A&E?
Who sedates patients in a OR?
Who works in a maternity ward?
How is it called the senior nurse in a unit?
Doctor – MD
Surgeon
Patient
An ophthalmologist – Eye M.D. – is a medical or osteopathic doctor who specializes in eye and vision care. 
Anesthesiologist/Anesthetist (UK)
Midwife
Charge Nurse/Sister

17. Part 3
Using the right tenses

18. Useful Verbs An operation An injection, some medicine, a pilldo
give
take
have
An operation
An injection, some medicine, a pill
Some medicine, a pill, your temperature
An operation, an injection, a check-up
an operation
an injection
some medicine
a pill
your temperature
a check-up
Auxiliary verbs are also known as 'helping verbs'.
The three most common auxiliary verbs are:
be, do and have
I am leaving = Leaving is the main verb. Am is the auxiliary.
She has arrived = Arrived is the main verb. Has is the auxiliary.
Do you smoke? = Smoke is the main verb. Do is the auxiliary.

19. Do – general activities/ also ‘to perform’ in this case
Dr. Friedman will perform an appendectomy
Give – ‘to administer’ in the medical area
Please, give the patient 20 cc of …..
Take – obtain, also through a procedure, measurements
I have to take your blood pressure measurements, Sir.
Have – possession, characteristics and a number of actions: have breakfast, have a discussion, have a bath
I had my eyes tested two months ago
Cc cubic centimeter/The medical and auto.motive fields in the United States still use the term cubic centimetre The United Kingdom uses millilitres in preference to cubic centimetres

20. Vocabulary
To determine the qualities/features, critical evaluation of a phenomenon.
Test
To inspect in order to determine and verify conditions.
Check
Estimate value/condition (practical).
Assess/Evaluate