Overview

This course is designed for non-native English speaking medical students, medical professionals and basically anyone who are interested in improving their communicative skills in medical English.

This course covers the following topics: the Hippocratic Oath, doctors’ rights in patient treatment, ethical dilemmas and policy choices of organ transplantation, autistic spectrum disorder, ethical issues in the use of animals in biomedical research, altruism and payment in blood donation, and the benefits and risks of genetically modified food.

Through analyzing and learning authentic texts about these essential medical topics, the medical students should be able to

Ø expand their medical vocabulary;

Ø hone their reading, writing and translating skills;

Ø understand the ethical dilemmas of some debatable issues in medicine;

Ø develop their critical thinking around these crucial issues;

Ø share scientific information and their perspectives in the international community;

Ø raise their intercultural awareness and competence.

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Syllabus

Unit 1 The Hippocratic Oath

1.1 Introduction to the ancient Greek medicine and the global analysis to the Hippocratic Oath
1.2 The first chapter of the Hippocratic Oath (Part 1-2) refers to the physician’s obligations to th
1.3 The second chapter of the Hippocratic Oath (Part 3-8) refers to the physician’s obligations to t
1.4 Reflections on the Hippocratic Oath and writing on the topic “Reflections on the Hippocratic Oat

Unit 2 Patients Have Rights, But Doctors Have Rights, Too

2.1 Introduction to the history of doctor-patient relationship and three models
2.2 Patients have rights, with focus on two healthcare advance directives: living will and durable p
2.3 Doctors have rights, too. Then it deals with the global analysis of the text, detailed study of

Unit 3 Organ Transplantation: Ethical Dilemmas and Policy Choices

3.1 Introduction to the topic of organ transplantation and some background information, as well as b
3.2 Detailed analysis of the different parts of the text and some difficult sentences
3.3 Some useful expressions related to organ transplantation and analysis of the writing devices use

Unit 4 Inside The Autistic Mind

4.1 A case about a profoundly autistic girl born with some unusual talents and the common characteri
4.2 Four surprising findings about autism and some useful expressions for discussions about causes
4.3 The rising incidence of autism and possible causes of the increase
4.4 How autistic brains are different from normal brains and the learning of related medical terms i
4.5 The future prospect of autism treatment: new clues from autistic patients’ voice, the learning o

Unit 5 Ethical Issues in the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research

5.1 Brief introduction to lecture content and lead in to the topic of animal experimentation
5.2 Ethical concerns in the use of animals in biomedical research
5.3 Close study of various perspectives on animal experimentation in biomedical research
5.4 Reflection on the topic of animal experimentation and writing on ‘My views on animal experimenta

Unit 6 Altruism and Payment in Blood Donation

6.1 Introduction to blood donation and the argument on paid and unpaid blood donation
6.2 Text structure analysis on how the author introduces the argument, lays out the aim and analyzes
6.3 Reflections on the Altruism and payment in blood donation and writing on the topic “paid blood d

Unit 7 Genetically Modified Food - The Benefits and The Risks

7.1 Genetically Modified Food--the Benefits and the Risks
7.2 Structure Analysis The benefits of GM foods, the issues against GM foods, which way do we go?
7.3 Text Analysis Difficult concepts & sentences and useful expressions
7.4 Critical Thinking and Writing Assignment Are Genetically Modified Animals Panacea or Poison?

Final Examination

Taught by

Fengxiang Lu, Xie Chunhui, Liu Juan, Su Ping, Hua Yao, Tao Xin , Fu Siliang, and Liu Hongchen

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