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The Merck Manual of Medical Information - Home Edition

  • excellent and easy to use

  • searchable

  • text version available

  • interactive version with photographs & diagrams

  • pronunciation - you can listen to how medical words should be spoken

Patient Education Manuals

the University of Utah, Health Sciences Center

catalogue of 299 manuals:
  • written in clear English

  • useful to read and learn from

  • designed to teach patients on a wide range of topics

Online Medical Dictionary from Medterms.com

  • Fast search

Multilingual Glossary of Medical Terms

  • multilingual glossary of technical and popular medical terms in 9 European languages

 

 

HELP WITH WRITING MEDICAL ENGLISH

Health Sciences Writing Centre - Handouts

University of Toronto

 

  • Turning a university essay into a research article

  • Critical thinking & critical argument

  • Making notes from lectures

  • Evaluating your own writing

  • & other helpful titles

Hit Parade of Writing Errors - Health Sciences Writing Centre, University of Toronto

  • extremely helpful language points

Englishmed.com

sponsored by the European Union's Leonardo da Vinci project

  • an excellent resource for doctors and nurses to learn the English they need
  • doctor/ patient dialogues
  • useful vocabulary & much more

Health Literacy Studies

Harvard School of Public Health

  • How to assess health education materials for readability

 

 

 

HEALTH NEWS, REPORTS, QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

 

 

Consider buying Hospital English from Arekalian Intercultural Training

 - a very useful book for medical staff who are non-native speakers of English working (or hoping to work) in the UK


 

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