English for healthcare professions, useful in a short medical terminology course, serves as a comprehensive introduction for medical students, physician assistants, and nurses. It is also a handy reference and refresher for residents and practitioners who are in contact with Anglo-American texts and journals for an effective permanent professional updating.

The book is structured in four main sections, as described below.

• Grammar focus, which provides student with the basic grammatical rules in the scientific lexicon and with revision and consolidation exercises.
• Medical topics, which provides student with a wide variety of medical and nursing fields and situations, develops his/her communicative skills, and provides him/her with background in major medical and care concepts.
• Human body's systems, which aims at checking the knowledge acquired by the student during the course.
• Glossary, a copious collection of basic medical terms, with phonetic transcription.

Le soluzioni agli esercizi della sezione Grammar Focus sono disponibili on line e sono visualizzabili tramite codice di accesso riportato sulla prima pagina del testo acquistato. Il file verrà progressivamente integrato con le soluzioni relative alle sezioni Medical topics e Human body's systems.