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The Importance of English in Medicine
Jonathan McFarland 3rd December 2015
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The Dreaded Graveyard Slot !!!!
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KEEPITSHORTSIMPLE
PUTITACROSSNOTOUT
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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."
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Index
BACKGROUND DIAGNOSIS TREATMENT OTHER PROJECTS CONCLUSION TAKE HOME MESSAGE
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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
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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….” *
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GLOBAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE OF BUSINESS TOURISM FINANCESCIENCE MEDICINE
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Why do YOU need English ?Medical and Scientific journals
Reading
Writing
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Medical Conferences
Attending –Listening
Presenting – Speaking
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Conferences Social Networking
NETWORKING
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PATIENT-DOCTORRESEARCH
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The Language Barrier
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The “English Barrier” in Spain
CAN YOU SPOT
SPANISH DOCTOR ?
COURTESY OF Dr MONICA LALANDA
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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
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TREATMENT
EN-GLISH AS THE MEDIUM
NETWO-RKED DOC-TOR
INTERNATIO-NAL PROJECTS
MEDICAL HUMANI-TIES OTHER
S
CLINICAL SESSIONS
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CLINICAL SESSIONS IN ENGLISH
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Sessions HUSE – ( Oncology,
Infectious Diseases, Dermatology, Chest Medicine, Haematology, Immunology, Radiology, ENT, Neurosurgery, Pharmacy, Traumatology …)
HSLL – Oncology Primary Care – Son
Serra-La Vileta
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Why Clinical Sessions in English ?
The great need/ Desire for Doctors to learn English
The busy timetable of Doctors
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BUSY CLINICIANS WITH ENGLISH
LEARNING EXPERIENCE IN A CLINICAL SETTING
DOCTORS TO BREAK ENGLISH BARRIER
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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)
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Different kinds of Sessions Case Presentations Duty Handovers Topic Presentations Writing Workshops
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CASE PRESENTATIONS 1
Clinical Sessions in Infectious Diseases Service, HUSE – May 2014
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This video shows the resident explaining the case
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This video shows the consultants and head of department discussing and debating the case with the residents
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This video shows my role
Going through the linguistic errors
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Case Presentations 2 In Son Llatzer
Hospital
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Case Presentations 3 Son Serra-La
Vileta
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Case Presentations 4 Multidiscplinary
groups ( Psychiatrist, GPs,
Gynaecologist, Paediatricians, Plastic Surgeon, Anaesthesiologist …)
Debates/ Discussions on a Multitude of Topics
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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
.
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Manchester
ScotlandDundeeNinewells HospitalMedical School
only 500 Km!
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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
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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
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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
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Social Media for Professional and
Academic Development
What’s the deal?Palma de Mallorca
15 May 2015
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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
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QUOTE SLIDE
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INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS Sechenov First
Moscow State Medical University
HENE( Health Education
North East)
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www.themegallery.com
International Case Presentations The beginning…....Moscow April 2015
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Three Video-Conferenced Clinical Sessions Friday 1st July Thursday 1st October Thursday 26th
NovemberWe used TrueConf
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In each Session there at least 2 cases presented; one from each centre
Each case lasted around 15-20 minutes
Interactive
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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
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After each case –Debate and Discussion between the Drs from both Hospitals
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Linguistic Assessment 1ASSESS THE FOLLOWING
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Linguistic assessment - MediatingMedical Practice Language Use
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A short video – 2nd Interantional Video conference
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HENE (HEALTH EDUCATION NORTH EAST
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Connecting Ideas Connecting
Doctors
Connecting Countries
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Medical English Blog
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Guest Posts Daily Tips
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Video Interviews Interesting vocab
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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
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And last but NOT least “Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity”
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The Humanities are KEY to everything that I am trying to do in Medical Education and Medical English Teaching
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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”
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“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.” *
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Take Home Messages
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“I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn” (Albert Einstein)
http://www.jonmcfarlandmedicalenglish.com
DEDICATED TO ALL LIFE’S ENTHUSIASTS
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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)
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