Primary Care English - Ribes, Ramón

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Résumé :
Here is the ideal introduction to the medical English language used in primary care and in hospitals. It is specially written for family doctors and any other health care professionals who are involved in primary care around the world and want to make useful progress in their medical English in order to be able to read and write articles, participate in international courses and meetings, read textbooks in their original English language and visit or work in an English speaking country to enrich their professional experience. This book has been written by doctors and will help readers feel confident understanding and communicating in English within their specialty. Its revolutionary combination of formal teaching and conversational style, together with the selection of contents specific to Primary Care, provides a unique platform to jump to a more advanced level with surprisingly little effort....

Biographie:
John Giba was born in Youngstown, Ohio (USA) in 1960. In 1984 he received a Bachelor of Science degree (magna cum laude) in psychology from the University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA). In 1985, he began teaching English in Spain. Working as a freelance translator and scientific writer since 1988, Mr. Giba has collaborated in the publication of over 1000 texts. In the last five years, he has specialized in teaching scientific English to biomedical professionals. Some of the courses and seminars in which he has participated include the Scientific English Module in the framework of a Master's program through the University of Barcelona and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (responsible for course design and implementation 2008, 2009, 2010), Radiological English Course (Barcelona and Madrid), Medical English Course (Girona), and Biomedical English Seminars (Esteve Foundation). He coauthored the book Surgical English with Ram?n Ribes and Pedro Aranda (Springer, 2010) and Ingl?s M?dico y Sanitario in Spanish (English for Healthcare Professionals) with Ram?n Ribes.(LID, 2010)....

Sommaire:
Dr. Antonio Luna is a Spanish radiologist who performed the residence in the Gregorio Mara?on?s Hospital (Madrid. Spain). He completed his radiology training with visiting fellowship at Duke and Harvard Universities. He is actually the chief of MRI and vicechairman of Health Time Group, a large private practice in Spain. He has presented more than 100 scientific and educational exhibits in international meetings. He has published several papers focused in cardiac and abdominal MRI. He is editor of the Learning Diagnostic Imaging series (Springer) and author of 13 book chapters. Dr. Luna is also clinical assistant professor of the radiology department of Case Western Reserve University at Cleveland. He is reviewer of several radiology and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Neuroscience and Neurology....