English for Medical Purposes (EMP) course is designed for EFL medical students (freshmen and sophomores).

EMP serves many purposes: to enhance the medical entrants' reading comprehension skills as well as to provide them with the basic vocabulary they need in the very beginning of their medical study; to develop the medical students' basic academic and scientific writing skills; and to give the medical students an introduction to the English medical terminology of medicine. The course consists of fourteen modules organized around the reading and writing sub-skills and their associated secondary skills such as vocabulary. The readings of this course are all about medical topics to go with the medical students' major and to be appealing to them. The topics will provide the students' with general knowledge about some of the important health conditions, diseases and their treatment making it a survey of the opportunities and problems inherent in the medical arena. The writing tasks presented in each module will be linked to the reading topics in a complementary way. The writing sub-skills will help the medical students' improve their academic and scientific writing skills. At the very end of the course, the students will be given a glossary of specific medical terms appropriate for students requiring a working knowledge of specialized medical terminology.

Course Title : English for Medical Purposes Course CodE: EMP Course Type: Scheduled Number of Instructional Units/Hours: 2.0 Course Description: The English for Medical Purposes (EMP) course is designed for junior (Year 1-2) medical students. This dedicated course focuses on the reading comprehension skills, and the academic/scientific writing skills. You will be able to participate in reading and writing assignments limited to familiar medical topics academically and professionally. This includes describing special events and situations, handling factual material on medical topics, and meeting primary writing needs. The course also covers medical terminology; practice in practical vocabulary related to your field of study. This highly interactive, specialist course, aims to provide you with a sufficient level of Medical English terminology to help develop the English language skills required for medical students at the very beginning of their medical study. *A General English program will be introduced and taught prior to the start of the course (Prerequisite as decided) in addition to an introduction to some basic computer skills

that will be needed in the course. A full orientation program is also provided at the start of the course. Course Goals: The main goal of the EMP Course is to develop fluency and confidence in using English in medical contexts. EMP aims at increasing EFL medical students' familiarity with medical written language and discourse in different medical contexts. The focus is on carrying out specialized activities in English, but attention is given to reading comprehension skills (expanding theEnglish general and medical vocabulary repertoire through extensive readings), academic and scientific writing skills, and technical medical terms as required. By the end of this course, you should be able to:1. Comprehend written language on a variety of academic medical topics. 2. Grasp the style of the academic and scientific writing and be able to practice it. 3. Expand your English lexis repertoire in addition to specialized medical terminology Instructional Materials: The EMP course includes material drawn from a range of specialist resources, as well as up-to-date authentic materials. This course is carefully compiled from professional medical resources, current topical reports and journals, and pertinent proficient websites. The course incorporates web-based instruction through the EMP online website and the use of on-line sessions. This course covers a broad range of topics which include: 1. 2. 3. 4. Comprehending medical reading comprehension topics Writing assignments Medical terminology Medical abbreviations

Topics to be covered include: Part One (for medical freshmen) Module One: Ancient Egyptian Medicine Module Two: Human Anatomy Module Three: Common Diseases and Symptoms Module Four: Could it be Diabetes? Module Five: Bird Flu/Influenza A Virus Subtype H5N1 Module Six: Obesity Module Seven: Anorexia Nervosa

Part Two:- (for medical sophomores) Module Eight: First Aid in Medical Emergencies Module Nine: Acupuncture Module Ten: Anemia Module Eleven: High Blood Pressure Module Twelve: Migraine Module Thirteen: Cancer Module Fourteen: Anxiety Disorder Appendices:-Appendix A: Glossary(Prefixes, roots & suffixes) -Appendix B: Medical Abbreviations Supplementary Materials for the introductory general English program from:Richards, J. , Hull , J., & Proctor, S. (1997). New Interchange. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press

EMP Course Skills and Associate Sub-skills

The main skills the EMP course is addressing are reading and writing skills. In addition, extra emphasis will be given another associated secondary skill, i.e., medical terminology.

EMP: Sub-Skills List

Below is a list of the sub-skills of the reading and writing skills. Reading.

Reading Sub-skills
R1 Locating (Reading for) the main ideas R2 Identifying definitions/ explanations/exemplifications R3 Recognizing (Reading for) supporting details R4 Recognizing events in sequential and/or chronological order R5 Drawing logical conclusions/inferences R6 Identifying causes and their effects R7 Guessing the meaning of unknown words R8 Identifying the reason/ purpose/intent of a particular reading passage R9 Reading a text quickly to get a general idea of the content (skimming) R10 Looking through a text quickly to locate specific information (scanning) R11 Distinguishing between fact and opinion R12 Evaluating ideas presented in a passage (Responding critically to passage) R13 Identifying problems and their solutions

R14 Identifying classifications

Writing Writing Sub-skills

Summarizing & paraphrasing written text using succinct language Writing academic definitions Writing the introduction of an academic essay (Addressing the topic) W4 Writing the Body of an academic essay (Organizing ideas logically in an essay using sequencing words/ coordinators& subordinators) W5 Writing the conclusion and bibliography of an academic essay (Using citation/referencing & quotation skills) W6 Writing a cause/effect essay W7 Writing a comparison/contrast essay (Expressing similarities and differences) W8 Writing a giving instructions essay W9 Writing a scientific essay W10 Using the appropriate academic register, style and words (AWL) in scientific essay writing W11 Writing an evaluation essay W12 Writing an argumentative essay W13 Writing a problem/solution essay W14 Writing a classification essay W1 W2 W3

Secondary -Associate Related skills: Medical Terminology

Medical Terminology

Medical Terminology Sub-skills

MT1 Dividing/deconstructing medical terms to their main components MT2 Describing body parts using anatomical terms MT3 and MT4 MT5 MT6 MT7 MT8 health conditions Identifying the most common medical prefixes related to numbers Identifying the most common terms related to the respiratory system and its diseases Identifying the most common combining forms related to the digestive system Identifying the most common terms related to the diseases of the gastrointestinal system Identifying the most common suffixes related to medical instruments Identifying the most common terms related to the Identifying the most common Identifying the most common cardiovascular system Identifying the most common nervous system Identifying the most common medicine/oncology Identifying the most common terms related to hematology terms related to the terms related to the terms related to cancer terms related to psychiatry Recognizing the word parts (prefixes, roots & suffixes) most commonly used in indicating diseases

MT9 skin MT10 MT11 MT12 MT13 MT14