Remember

Choosing a specialty

Specialties

Specialist doctors, for example paediatricians, cardiologists, neurologists, traumatologists and others generally work in hospitals. However, those who practise outside the National Health Service, providing private health care, may have consulting rooms outside a hospital - for example in the famous Harley Street in London.

In the United Kingdom of Great Britain there are two main branches of medicine as surgery and internal medicine, and the doctors who practise these branches are usually called surgeons and physicians.

A cardiologist	specializes in   is a specialist in	diseases of the heart and circulation, or cardiology.
A geriatrician		diseases of elderly patients, or geriatrics.
An anaesthetist		anaesthetics.
An obstetrician		delivering of newborns
A psychiatrist		counseling

Choosing a specialty is one of the hardest decisions medical students and foundation doctors will have to make in their careers. After graduating from medical school medical students have to decide what to specialize in. They need more experience before their decision, for instance if they are attracted to the idea of paediatrics because they like to work with children or prefer to work with adults because they fancy geriatrics. Some students are not interested in detailed anatomy, so the surgical specialties like neurosurgery don’t really appeal them. In surgery they have to be good with their hands whereas it is not a problem for those who have already assisted several times having done some minor ops by themselves. Moreover, surgeons have to be able to do the same thing again and again without getting bored, like tying off cut arteries and so on. Surgeons have to make decisions fast while some doctors like to have time to think which means that surgery is probably not right for them.

1. In British English, the verb is spelt practise and the noun is spelt practice but have the same pronunciation.

2. Names of specialties usually end in - ology; names of specialists usually end in - ologist. If the name of a specialty ends in - ics, the name of the specialist ends in - ician. There are some exceptions, e.g. anaesthetics and anaesthetist.

3. The collocation good with is followed by a noun.

The paediatricians are good with children.

The collocation good at is followed by the -ing form (gerund) of a verb, or by a noun.

The nurses are good at giving injections.

The tutor is good at explanations.

4. Idiom- to give a hand (it means- to help)

Дата добавления: 2014-12-10