Monday, August 2, 2010

Medical Mandarin

If you are a doctor and want to brush up your Mandarin skills...

We can practise some topics as following or upon your request:

1. Introduction: your work as doctor and your hospital

2. Talking with patients: greetings / do you have a headache? / what disease do you have? / have you had surgery before?

3. Exact symptoms: general, digestive system, urinary system, nervous system, head, eyes, ears, nose and throat, mouth, neck, breasts, heart, lung, respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, urinary, obstetrical and gynecological, sexual history, musculoskeletal, neurologic, endocrine, psychiatric

4. Explain to patient and familiy, talking about health condition and illness

5. Medication and prescription

Ref:http://liver.stanford.edu/Education/MedicalMandarinsyllabus.doc


A successful case
I got to know W 5 years ago when I was in University. He is an A&E (accident and emergency) doctor and professor, who often gives presentations to mainland organizations.

He knew Chinese characters well, but not good at Mandarin. So our focus was preparing and practising presentations. Most of our topics were about emergency treatments. Sometimes we also talked about management skills and Edward de bono. He introduced the slides, and I marked the pinyin for difficult words for more practice.

He is full of planning and working hard. After several months, he can give presentations in Mandairn fluently.

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