Friday, March 1, 2013

ENGLISH FOR MEDICINE

All sites are organized from easy (less difficult language and/or English support) to challenging.

Listening

Net Academy Next
Choose: 医学英語<基礎>コース

ELLLO (Health) 
People from around the world talk about health.

TED Ed Talks(Health & Medicine)
TED Videos with quizzes



Lectures about health & medicine.
Check English scripts after listening once. Some have scripts in Japanese.

Yahoo Health Videos
Yahoo news stories with no language support 

New England Journal of Medicine Videos 
Academic research videos. Click CC to see subtitles.
Only some videos are free: Hand hygiene  Emergency Pericardiocentesis   Blood-Pressure Measurement


Reading

TIME for Kids: Health

Breaking News English, Health (newest stories have speed reading & vocab activities)

Science News for Kids, Humans & Health

ScientificAmerican Health Podcast 
You can also listen (no video).

CNN Health News      BBC Health News

New England Journal of Medicine

Livescience

MDLinx   Medical News Today

Pharmacy Times

American Society of Registered Nurses




MOOCs  (インターネット上で世界の有名大学の講義を無料で受講することが可能なサイトのことで,主に以下の2種類のサイトがあります。)
edX Medicine

Coursera Medicine & Health Care



Vocabulary  (Quizlet)
Accidents, Illnesses, & Disease  (try below)    Illnesses 2    
Anatomy (body parts)          Drugs/Medicines