Hospital English: Patient Case Studies - Student Resources

The student resources section contains student audio by unit. There are:
- Pre-Reading Vocabulary Audio - click and listen
- Case Study Audio - Online Audio Player
- Disease State Audio - Online Audio Player
There are sample texts for the suggested follow-up activities and presentent a patient.
Each unit also includes some online vocabulary exercises for additional practice.

Hospital English: Patient Case Studies is a medical English course covering common health problems or disease states. Each Unit contains a patient case study and disease state article for the 12 different health issues. The course builds reading competence, medical vocabulary, and speaking confidence for using medical English with patients or clients.

(The textbook is available globally on Amazon. For general information or Amazon local market links for Hospital English: Patient Case Studies, see the textbook's main page.)

Unit 1

Infections

Pre-Reading Vocabulary:

1. infection
2. laceration
3. abrasion
4. antiseptic
5. suture

6. stitches
7. swollen
8. tender
9. antibiotic
10. dressing

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Case Study: Kimberly Jones

Listen to the Case Study

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Disease State Article: Infections

Listen to the Disease State Article

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Additional Materials:

- Case Study Follow-Up

- Presenting a Patient: Kimberly Jones

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Follow-Up to Unit 1: Infections

Kimberly Jones coming in to have her stitches removed ...




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Unit 1: Presenting a Patient, Kimberly Jones

Kimberly Jones is a 7-year old who presented to the the Energency Room with ...




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Unit 2

Unit 3

Hospital English: Patient Case Studies is a medical English course covering common health problems or disease states. Each Unit contains a patient case study and disease state article for the 12 different health issues. The course builds reading competence, medical vocabulary, and speaking confidence for using medical English with patients or clients.

(The textbook is available globally on Amazon. For general information or Amazon local market links for Hospital English: Patient Case Studies, see the textbook's main page.)

Hospital English also contains free teaching materials for medical English vocabulary, English conversations in the hospital, and lesson plans based around various medical procedures. In addition to the 2 course books, there are a variety of free online resources on the site for both students and teachers: vocabulary builders, patient counseling activities, disease state directors, healthcare professional articles, medical flashcards, hospital English lesson plans, ESP worksheets, and more to come!

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.

Questions, comments, encouragement, suggestions... please email them in. More to come. Please check back.