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Bradford VTS Online Resources:

Teaching & Learning

English - Writing & Speaking

WEBLINKS FOR ALL TRAINEES

BOOKS FOR ALL TRAINEES

Eats, Shoots and Leaves: the zero tolerance approach towards punctuation, Truss L. (fabulous and easy to read)

The Elements of Style by Strunk and White (a classic, first published 1935, updated since then; small but can be a bit heavy).

YOUTUBE VIDEO LESSONS MAINLY FOR IMGs

Pick one and then choose another when you’re done. Don’t try following them all at once! It’s too much.

If you have files you would like me to host on here and share with others, OR if you would like to help develop these pages further, then please email me.
rameshmehay@googlemail.co.uk

This page is not just for IMGs!

I’ve created this page because there are so many trainees born and educated in the UK who get to medical school and pass, yet their written English often requires improvement. And if you’re going to be writing articles, projects or papers for publication, then you really ought to brush up in this area. Others may be international medical graduates who want help with their writing. This page will serve both those born and educated in the UK and those born and educated outside. So what perfect opportunity to do it during your GP training years.

In the “Downloads” section above, you will find useful resources helping you with…

English sentence construction
Grammar
English spelling
Punctuation

The videos are more for International Medical Graduates.

A selection of random video clips on English Language, Grammar & Culture

1

10 MOST COMMON Grammar Mistakes English Learners Make 😭😭😭

10 MOST COMMON Grammar Mistakes English Learners Make 😭😭😭

18:23

2

Common Mistakes that we make while speaking English - Free ESL lesson

Common Mistakes that we make while speaking English - Free ESL lesson

07:36

3

8 Common Grammar Mistakes in English!

8 Common Grammar Mistakes in English!

06:27

4

10 MOST COMMON Grammar Mistakes English Learners Make

10 MOST COMMON Grammar Mistakes English Learners Make

12:29

5

Grammatical Errors: 120 Common Grammar Mistakes in English And How to Avoid Them

Grammatical Errors: 120 Common Grammar Mistakes in English And How to Avoid Them

34:50

6

9 MOST COMMON MISTAKES IN WRITTEN ENGLISH

9 MOST COMMON MISTAKES IN WRITTEN ENGLISH

10:10

7

The top 10 mispronounced words in English made by foreign learners

The top 10 mispronounced words in English made by foreign learners

05:02

8

Top 27 Mispronounced Everyday Words | English Pronunciation Practice | Improve Accent |Speak Clearly

Top 27 Mispronounced Everyday Words | English Pronunciation Practice | Improve Accent |Speak Clearly

13:11

9

50 Words You're Pronouncing WRONGLY Right Now! | Top 50 Mispronounced English Words, Common Mistakes

50 Words You're Pronouncing WRONGLY Right Now! | Top 50 Mispronounced English Words, Common Mistakes

15:54

10

25 Commonly Mispronounced English Words 😱 | Improve English Pronunciation | Speak English Clearly

25 Commonly Mispronounced English Words 😱 | Improve English Pronunciation | Speak English Clearly

18:38

11

25 Most commonly MISPRONOUNCED English words | Words you say WRONG | British English Pronunciation

25 Most commonly MISPRONOUNCED English words | Words you say WRONG | British English Pronunciation

09:49

12

10 More Commonly Mispronounced Words in English by Foreign Learners

10 More Commonly Mispronounced Words in English by Foreign Learners

05:20

13

10 Common British English Slang Expressions & Phrases | #Spon

10 Common British English Slang Expressions & Phrases | #Spon

11:33

14

Learn British accents and dialects – Cockney, RP, Northern, and more!

Learn British accents and dialects – Cockney, RP, Northern, and more!

24:06

15

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8 Tips for British English Pronunciation

8 Tips for British English Pronunciation

16:09

17

English Grammar Mistakes YOU should NEVER make! British English Grammar lesson (Spon)

English Grammar Mistakes YOU should NEVER make! British English Grammar lesson (Spon)

18:18

18

Biggest ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION Mistake & How To Correct It // LIVE BRITISH ENGLISH LESSON

Biggest ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION Mistake & How To Correct It // LIVE BRITISH ENGLISH LESSON

41:50

19

MOST EMBARRASSING English Mistakes! (Not for Kids!)

MOST EMBARRASSING English Mistakes! (Not for Kids!)

11:09

20

NEVER Make These 5 English Pronunciation Mistakes!

NEVER Make These 5 English Pronunciation Mistakes!

19:50

21

Improve Your Spoken English With This Sentence | RP British English Lesson

Improve Your Spoken English With This Sentence | RP British English Lesson

13:43

22

Embarrassing Foreign Language Mistakes We Made | Babbel Voices

Embarrassing Foreign Language Mistakes We Made | Babbel Voices

04:01

23

8 Common Mistakes | Quick Tips To Improve Your English & Help You Sound More Like A Native Speaker

8 Common Mistakes | Quick Tips To Improve Your English & Help You Sound More Like A Native Speaker

10:48

YouTube Video Lessons for IMGs

Writing in English - quick tips

Some of the best YouTube English teachers: (probably best to pick one that is British rather than American as you are working in the UK)

For phrases or to highlight a particular word or a word phrase you have coined.
It is called ‘medical phronesis’. In this case, you would now not need to quotations again for every instance of the words medical phronesis.
‘patients are experts of their own lives’
You don’t want to look ‘dodgy’.
If you do that, it might ruin the ‘flow’.
They can be quite powerful ‘thought triggers’.

No capitals for disease names unless eponymous. Eponymous means something which is named after a particular person or group.

Eponymous:

Alzheimer’s disease
Freiderichs Ataxia
Henoch-Schonlein purpura

Non-eponymous:

multiple sclerosis not Multiple Sclerosis
diabetes not Diabetes
hypertension not Hypertension

Abbreviations are capitalised though

An acute MI
She has narcistic personality disorder (NPD).
Thank goodness we spotted that it was a DVT.

Symptoms are lower case

hallucinations, delusions
cough, dysphagia, haemoptysis

The research says that when coming towards the end of a telephone consultation, you need to be more overt in closing the session than in a face-to-face consultation. In a face-to-face consultation, lots of subtle verbal and behavioural cues in both the doctor and patient indicate the meeting is coming to a close. You don’t have that in remote consultations, so you need to be more overt; otherwise, it can seem to the patient that you have “hung up” rather abruptly and closed the patient off.
The research says that when coming towards the end of a telephone consultation, you need to be more overt in closing the session than in a face-to-face consultation. In a face-to-face consultation, lots of subtle verbal and behavioural cues in both the doctor and patient indicate the meeting is coming to a close. You don’t have that in remote consultations, so you need to be more obvious; otherwise, it can seem to the patient that you have “hung up” rather abruptly and closed the patient off.

Please leave a comment if you have a tip, spot an error, spot something missing or have a suggestion for a web resource. And of course, if you have developed a resource of your own, please email it to me to share with others.

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