Medical English, an English course for specific purpose, is a powerful tool for medical students and professionals to learn the science of medicine better. Medical English serves as a bridge between general English and medical science. Unlike general English, Medical English involves a huge number of medical terms, complicated but limited variety of sentence structures, reading skills, certain formats of practical writing, etc. 

This Medical English Reading course consists of text study, including professional information sharing; language points study, which covers the words and sentences analysis; word building, the best tool for terminology study; and writing and translation.

With this course, students can have a good command of word building of medical English terminology, understand the basic elements of medical literatures, and the skills of academic/practical writing as well as translating. This course also improves the students' understanding of medical knowledge.

医学生通过医学英语素材，熟悉医学英语术语，了解医学入门知识，掌握医学英语翻译、写作等应用技能，为后续医学专业课程学习打基础。

非医学生通过医学英语素材，拓展阅读领域，了解医学入门知识，掌握科技英语中的医学英语翻译、写作等应用技能。

完成大学英语学习、有简单的医学常识。

1.《医学英语阅读》 刘胜兵 石海英 上海交通大学出版社

2.《英文SCI生物医学论文写作教程》廖荣霞 科技出版社

3.《大学英语翻译教程》 常玉田 外语教学与研究出版社

4. www.etymonline.com