Hospital English contains free teaching materials for medical English vocabulary, English conversations in the hospital, and lesson plans based around various medical procedures. There are a variety of other resources on the site: vocabulary builders, patient counseling activities, disease state directors, healthcare professional articles, medical flashcards, hospital lesson plans, ESP worksheets, and more to come!

Hospital English has 2 textbooks available on Amazon:

Hospital English: Patient Case Studies

Hospital English: Patient Case Studies - a core curriculum medical English textbook with equal focus on speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
Each unit has a patient case study and disease state article. It is an intermediate English textbook, designed for 1st year university students or for a medical English course for current healthcare professionals. See the Patient Case Studies main page for more details or view on Amazon.

Hospital English: Nursing Procedures - an English conversation course with nurse and patient dialogs.
This text is an introduction to medical English, focusing on building medical English vocabulary and speaking confidence. While the dialogs are written as Nurse/Patient, this English conversation course is useful as an introduction to medical English for any specialty. See the Nursing Procedures main page for more details or view on Amazon.

Hospital English: Nursing Procedures

Online content from Hospital English:

Disease State Directors: lesson plans on how to explain health problems to a patient.

Asthma:
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Type 1 Diabetes:
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Type 2 Diabetes:
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Arthritis:
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Medications: articles and lesson plans for teaching about medicine and medication related dialogs.

Antibiotics:
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Explaining about a prescription:
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Medical Flash Cards:

Medication: tablet, capsule, jell capsule, syrup, injection, suppository ...

Organ Systems: lungs, heart, kidney, liver, stomach, nervous system, circulatory system ...

Glands: thyroid, duodenal, adrenal...

Medical Equipment: syringe, thermometer, stethoscope, scalpel, tubing...

Patient Equipment: crutches, wheel chair, splint, brace...

more flashcards here

Hospital Procedures: various nurse/patient and doctor/patient conversations related to medical procedures

Getting Patient Information:
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Taking a patient's blood pressure:
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Giving a shot:
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Taking a blood sample:
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Explaining a prescription:
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Giving a patient medication:
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In the Hospital: different hospital conversations between patients and health care professionals.

In the Patient's Room:
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Explaining About the Hospital:
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Greeting the Patient:
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Healthcare Professionals: activities for describing or talking about healthcare specialists, their duties and responsibilities.

Describing Hospital Workers:
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The Nurse:
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The Pharmacist:
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Physical Therapy:
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Radiology:
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I am a US licensed pharmacist. I have worked at Yale New Haven Medical Center, Hartford Hospital and retail pharmacies. I live abroad and have been teaching English as a foreign language since 1999. I currently teach medical English classes at 2 nursing colleges in Japan. These resources were designed for my students but are posted here free for all to use. They can be adapted for use as teaching materials for doctors, nurses, physical therapists, radiologists, physician assistants, pharmacists, and more. I hope you find them stimulating and useful.

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