the importance of english in medicine 3rd december 2015

The Importance of English in Medicine

Jonathan McFarland 3rd December 2015

The Dreaded Graveyard Slot !!!!

KEEPITSHORTSIMPLE

PUTITACROSSNOTOUT

Dr Lev Landau

«Английский надо знать! Даже самые тупые англичане знают его неплохо» (Л.Д. Ландау)

"You must know English! Even the most dull English people know it pretty well."

Index

BACKGROUND DIAGNOSIS TREATMENT OTHER PROJECTS CONCLUSION TAKE HOME MESSAGE

Medical Languages Greek Era – Hippocratic writings Medical Arabic Medical Latin – Celsus “De Medicina” National languages, eg-French, Italian, German Since 2nd World War – Predominance

of English

Medical English “Today, all the most

influential medical journals are written in English, and English has become the language of choice at International conferences.

We have entered the era of medical English….” *

GLOBAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE OF BUSINESS TOURISM FINANCESCIENCE MEDICINE

Why do YOU need English ?Medical and Scientific journals

Reading

Writing

Medical Conferences

Attending –Listening

Presenting – Speaking

Conferences Social Networking

NETWORKING

PATIENT-DOCTORRESEARCH

The Language Barrier

The “English Barrier” in Spain

CAN YOU SPOT

SPANISH DOCTOR ?

COURTESY OF Dr MONICA LALANDA

Personal History 2002 – Son Llatzer 2005 - Son Dureta / Son Espases 2011 - Primary Care 2012 – COMIB 2012- PalmaPlanas – Quiron 2014 – Juaneda Healthcare Network 2015 – Clinica Rotger

TREATMENT

EN-GLISH AS THE MEDIUM

NETWO-RKED DOC-TOR

INTERNATIO-NAL PROJECTS

MEDICAL HUMANI-TIES OTHER

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CLINICAL SESSIONS

CLINICAL SESSIONS IN ENGLISH

Sessions HUSE – ( Oncology,

Infectious Diseases, Dermatology, Chest Medicine, Haematology, Immunology, Radiology, ENT, Neurosurgery, Pharmacy, Traumatology …)

HSLL – Oncology Primary Care – Son

Serra-La Vileta

Why Clinical Sessions in English ?

The great need/ Desire for Doctors to learn English

The busy timetable of Doctors

BUSY CLINICIANS WITH ENGLISH

LEARNING EXPERIENCE IN A CLINICAL SETTING

DOCTORS TO BREAK ENGLISH BARRIER

Educational Technology–

CoP – whereby Drs and health professionals are learning together

Act as Mediator between Language and Medical Practice

COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

Me as facilitator (WENGER)

Different kinds of Sessions Case Presentations Duty Handovers Topic Presentations Writing Workshops

CASE PRESENTATIONS 1

Clinical Sessions in Infectious Diseases Service, HUSE – May 2014

This video shows the resident explaining the case

This video shows the consultants and head of department discussing and debating the case with the residents

This video shows my role

Going through the linguistic errors

Case Presentations 2 In Son Llatzer

Hospital

Case Presentations 3 Son Serra-La

Vileta

Case Presentations 4 Multidiscplinary

groups ( Psychiatrist, GPs,

Gynaecologist, Paediatricians, Plastic Surgeon, Anaesthesiologist …)

Debates/ Discussions on a Multitude of Topics

Set up 2014 With Annalisa Manca, a Medical

Educationalist working at Dundee Medical School

A workshop series for medical professionals looking to effectively engagewith the international community of healthcare practitioners

.

Manchester

ScotlandDundeeNinewells HospitalMedical School

only 500 Km!

THE NETWORKED DOCTOR:Social Media in Healthcare and Healthcare

ResearchA workshop series for healthcare professionals looking to effectively engage with the international community of healthcare practitioners.

Photo from: https://www.flickr.com/photos/51035553780@N01/2922421696/ - CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

The Networked Doctor

Photo paukrus- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License https://www.flickr.com/photos/paukrus/4093830467/

Live Dissection of a Social Media tool

Palma de Mallorca17 Oct 2014

AIMS, OBJECTIVES AND OVERVIEW

• get started in a practical and engaged way with Twitter

• connect effectively with other doctors on Twitter

• participate enjoyably in the emerging academic blogosphere and twittersphere

• become member of a network of doctors and lifelong learners who want to collaborate and share ideas

Photo from: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonahowie/8583949219 - CC BY 2.0

Social Media for Professional and

Academic Development

What’s the deal?Palma de Mallorca

15 May 2015

AIMS, OBJECTIVES AND OVERVIEW

• Design, manage and enhance your PLE

• Open a Feedly account• Start your own blog and connect

it with Twitter• Participate enjoyably in the

emerging academic blogosphere and twittersphere

• Become member of a network of doctors and lifelong learners who want to collaborate and share ideas

QUOTE SLIDE

INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS Sechenov First

Moscow State Medical University

HENE( Health Education

North East)

www.themegallery.com

International Case Presentations The beginning…....Moscow April 2015

Three Video-Conferenced Clinical Sessions Friday 1st July Thursday 1st October Thursday 26th

NovemberWe used TrueConf

www.themegallery.com

In each Session there at least 2 cases presented; one from each centre

Each case lasted around 15-20 minutes

Interactive

www.themegallery.com

Oncologic follow-up What would you do after fistula

repair from the oncologic point of view?

A) Observation and PSA follow-up.B) Androgen deprivation therapy.B) Radiotherapy

www.themegallery.com

After each case –Debate and Discussion between the Drs from both Hospitals

www.themegallery.com

Linguistic Assessment 1ASSESS THE FOLLOWING

www.themegallery.com

Linguistic assessment - MediatingMedical Practice Language Use

A short video – 2nd Interantional Video conference

HENE (HEALTH EDUCATION NORTH EAST

www.themegallery.com

Connecting Ideas Connecting

Doctors

Connecting Countries

Medical English Blog

Guest Posts Daily Tips

Video Interviews Interesting vocab

MEN’S APPA Project with Dr Juan Pablo

Burgues ( Urologist and Andrologist)

To spread and explain “men’s health” to a wider public using Mobile Applications

And last but NOT least “Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity”

The Humanities are KEY to everything that I am trying to do in Medical Education and Medical English Teaching

Siddartha Mukeherjee concludes his short book – The Laws of Medicine - in this way

“ “The Youngest Science” is also the most human science. It might well be the most beautiful and fragile thing we do”

“The scientific importance of English is such that, whenever I have a meeting with my residents – and I have many, both residents and meetings – I find myself emphasizing, over and over again, the need for them to learn English.” *

Take Home Messages

“I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn” (Albert Einstein)

mcfarland.jonathan@gmail.com

http://www.jonmcfarlandmedicalenglish.com

DEDICATED TO ALL LIFE’S ENTHUSIASTS

Bibliography The language of medicine, Henrik R Wulff MD, J R Soc

Med 2004;97:187–188The Languages of Medicine, Christopher Baethge

PD, Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2008 Jan; 105(3): 37–40.Wenger, Etienne (1998).

Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Adventures in Human Being, Gavin Francis, Wellcome Collection, 2015.

The Laws of Medicine, Siddhartha Mukherjee, TED Books, 2015

A-Z of Medical Writing, Tima Albert, BMJBooks, 2000

* Dr Javier Lucaya, Chairman of Radiology, Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona (Spain)