INTERNET FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS

(updated November 2009)

CONTENTS
WEB SITES FOR GENERAL ENGLISH	WEB SITES FOR MEDICAL ENGLISH
Vocabulary	Vocabulary
	Reading
Online Grammar and Exercises	Fact sheets and news articles about health and medicine Professional texts (only 2^ndsem)

WEB SITES FOR GENERAL ENGLISH

VOCABULARY

ONLINE MONOLINGUAL DICTIONARIES

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary (with audio pronunciation - US)

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm

Cambridge English Dictionary (with IPA phonetic script-GB) (help with the symbols: phonemic chart or BBC chart with audio [scroll down to “Listen to the sounds of English”])

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

The Free Dictionary (dictionary and encyclopaedia with British and American audio pronunciation)

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

One Look Dictionary Search (a single engine that searches multiple general and specialised dictionaries)

http://www.onelook.com/

CONCORDANCERS

http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx

http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/

ONLINE GRAMMAR AND EXERCISES

NetGrammar – a complete language course online

http://netgrammar.altec.org/Units/menu.html

Learn English – British Council (go to “central” -> “archives” -> “grammar games ”)

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk

BBC Worldservice - Learning English

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml

Online interactive grammar tutorials and exercises

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/index.html

http://www.better-english.com/grammar.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/

http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/freeexercises.htm

http://www.lextutor.ca/ (Called “The Compleat Lexical Tutor", this was created by a Canadian university. It focuses on vocabulary with sections to learn new vocabulary and test your knowledge. Suitable for all levels.)

ONLINE LISTENING AND VIDEO

BBC Worldservice – Listen to “Health Check”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/health_check.shtml

BBC - Radio 4 – Listen to the radio programme “Case Notes” (click on “listen again”). You can also read the full transcript of the programme while listening (right click on “full programme transcript” to open in a new window) - Full transcripts are available for all programmes down to “Antiobiotics” in the list of “Previous Programmes” in the right navigation bar.

BBC Case notes on Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) - Sept 2008

BBC News – Watch “Windpipe transplant breakthrough” (19 Nov 2008)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7735696.stm

NHS Choices – Choose from over 500 short videos (approx. 2-4 mins) on a variety of health topics. Click on the “T” (left of the volume control) to visualise the subtitles and on the downward arrow to download the full transcript.

http://www.nhs.uk/video/Pages/MediaLibrary.aspx

WebMD Health Videos A-Z

http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/videos/default.htm

WEB SITES FOR MEDICAL ENGLISH

VOCABULARY

Online Medical Dictionary (monolingual)

http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/

Dorland's Online Medical Dictionary - Dorland's pronunciation guide is here

Dorland's new version

http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands_split.jsp?pg=/ppdocs/us/common/dorlands/dorland/misc/dmd-a-b-000.htm

or try the old version here

Stedman's Online Medical Dictionary

http://www.stedmans.com/section.cfm/45

Webster's New World Medical Dictionary

http://www.medterms.com/script/main/hp.asp

One Look Dictionary (a single engine that searches multiple general and specialised online dictionaries).”More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine”.

http://www.onelook.com/

MEDLINE plus Medical Dictionary

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html

MEDLINE plus Medical Encyclopedia

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html