Medicine 2 teaches pre-work students to communicate accurately and effectively in English, with patients and colleagues.

1. Emergency medicine Technical and non-technical words, recruitment 2. Accidents Fracture types, X-rays, minor incidents 3. Sports medicine Patient vocabulary, giving warning and using persuasion 4. Obstetrics Lay words and medical terms 5. Psychiatry Psychiatric symptoms, interpretation of the patient 6. Geriatrics Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, health care and changing demographics, active listening, rehabilitation 7. Dermatology Managing skin conditions, understanding what a patient says 8. Surgery Post-op pain management, OSCE exams 9. Cardiology Talking to an anxious partner, giving advice and coaxing, competition 10. Respiratory medicine Lung conditions, inhalers 11. Tropical diseases Stroke patients, sickle-cell anaemia, milestones in public health 12. Technology Technological advances, stem cell transplants

Sam McCarter