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Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Personal:

Name                                     Nancy Mann

Address                                 17 Hillside Road

                                              Chesswood WD3 5LB

Telephone                              01923 284171

Fax number                           01923 286622

e-mail                                     mann@rambler.com

Date of birth                          18 February 1974

Marital status                           married

Education:

1998-2002                             University College, London University,

                                       London, England

1994-1998                             Bedford College, London University,

                                       England

1982-1993                             St.Mary’s School, Calne, Wiltshire,

                                       England

Work Experience:

2006-2009                             Bergen University, Medical Department,

                                       Bergen, Norway

                                       Surgeon

2002-2006                             Saint Barnabas Hospital, New York, USA

                                       Family doctor

Interests and Skills:

Languages                             Fluent English, Norwegian

Hobbies                                 Skiing, cooking, reading,

                                      driving license from 1997

Computer skills                     Word, Excel

Ex.8. CURRICULUM VITAE (B)

Try to write a letter of application and compose a CV for the following jobs in the Daily News:

A. A famous medical company Medcalm (17 Queen Street, Glasgow DJ46 9RF) is looking for a nurse. Qualifications include: higher education, strong practical background, computer skills and willingness to work hard. The company offers excellent compensation and outstanding career opportunities.

B. Med-Trans-Globe wants travel couriers of medical equipment from Europe to the Far East. Have you got good interpersonal skills? Can you speak two or more languages? Are you familiar with medical equipment? Do you want to see the world? Please apply with CV to the Personnel Manager, Med-Trans-Globe, 7 Victoria Square, London SW1 6VC.

C. A well-known St.Paul’s Hospital (5^th Avenue, Toronto, Canada F25 52U) has an urgent opening for an administrative assistant who will perform all administrative duties such as: scheduling, organizing appointments with doctors, making financial reports, arranging of business trips around the country and abroad. The successful candidate should possess good knowledge of business correspondence, professional computer skills and fluency in both spoken and written English. Career development is possible but the position does not involve a period of training.

Ex.9. HOW PEOPLE ARE HIRED (A)

Read the text and fill in the table below:

Mr. Stone was a very clever doctor whose thoughts were always on learning. When he applied for a post of lecturer at Camford University, his friends had no doubt that he would get the job. Even though there were hundreds of candidates willing to try their luck, he made up his mind to take part in the competition. Arriving at Camford, a very small town, he learnt that the only hotel was already full. So, he had to stay in the same room with another candidate, a cheerful fellow called Adams, about twenty years younger. After the committee had listened to all the candidates only two of them, Mr. Stone and Mr. Adams, were chosen because it seemed impossible to decide who was more skillful. That is why, they were both asked to prepare a report on infectious diseases and to give a lecture on the subject in three days’ time.

Mr. Stone almost stopped eating and sleeping. He worked day and night, arranging his thoughts, writing out and learning his lecture by heart. As for Adams, he didn’t seem to do any preparation. He spent most of his time playing tennis and going to the parties and did not return to his room till midnight.

On the day of the lecture Mr. Stone, waiting for his turn to speak, discovered that his speech disappeared. Turning his head, he saw Adams take the stolen speech out of his pocket and heard him read it to the audience. Adams read it so well that when he finished there was a storm of applause. Mr. Stone was too much upset to express his ideas in a different way. Therefore, when his turn came, he could only repeat the same speech word for word, in a low voice.

When the committee went out to decide who the successful candidate was, everyone was sure what their choice would be. However, when the Dean gave Mr. Stone’s name at last, nobody could believe it! They all had admired Mr. Adams’ remarkable speech so much! Asked for explanation, the Dean said:

“The reason why we have chosen Mr. Stone is that he was able to repeat from memory a brilliant lecture he had never heard before. What a memory must he have! And a fine memory is quite necessary for his post.”

As they walked out of the room, the Dean came up to Doctor Stone and, shaking his hand, said: “Congratulations, Mr. Stone! However, let me give you a piece of advice. Be more careful and don’t leave valuable papers lying about!”

Ex.10. HOW PEOPLE ARE HIRED (B)

Choose the right answer only:

1) Mr. Stone’s friends had no doubts that he would get the job because…

a) the Dean was one of his acquaintances.

b) he was talented enough.

c) everyone had given him much useful advice.

d) he was the only candidate.

2) The committee asked both Mr. Stone and Mr. Adams to prepare a report and give a lecture on infectious diseases as…

a) the subject was exiting to study.

b) the students of the University hadn’t learnt this subject.

c) the committee decided to find out which of the candidates was more skilful.

d) the committee wanted more information about infectious diseases.

3) Mr. Stone had to repeat the speech after Mr. Adams because…

a) Mr. Stone hadn’t prepared his own speech.

b) Mr. Adams had stolen Mr. Stone’s lecture.

c) Mr. Stone didn’t like the way Mr. Adams read the report.

d) Mr. Stone didn’t want their lectures to differ.

4) Nobody doubted that Mr. Adams was the successful candidate for…

a) he looked wise and skilful.

b) he had brilliant ideas.

c) he had read the lecture perfectly.

d) Mr. Stone didn’t participate in the competition.

5) The Dean chose Mr. Stone for the job as…

a) they were relatives.

b) the Dean admired Mr. Stone’s memory.

c) the Dean felt pity for Mr. Stone.

d) the Dean guessed the real reason for Mr. Stone’s “failure”.

UNIT 3

MY WORKING DAY

Ex.1. Read the text and fill in the table below:

MY EVERYDAY ROUTINE

Every day I have much interesting and necessary work to do. To be a good doctor in future means to study well at the University from the day of admission till the day of graduation. We must remember that we cannot be bad doctors as we will be responsible for the protection of people’s health and their lives. Our future work will require deep knowledge and all our abilities. To achieve these high aims the students of our group decided not to waste any time. So I always remember that the lost hour is never gained and that is why I do not like to waste even a minute.

I get up early in the morning – at about 7 a.m., do my morning exercises and have a cold rubdown. As we are medical students we consider that physical exercises are “a good remedy” for the protection of our health against diseases. We must remember the Latin saying Mens sana in corpora sano.

After my breakfast at our canteen I go to the main building of our University on foot as it is near to our hostel.

Our classes usually begin at 09.00 a.m. In addition to several practical classes we have a lecture or two every day. So we finish our lessons at 05.00 p.m. We study many theoretical and special subjects.

On Fridays we usually have a lecture in Physics. Long before its beginning there are always many students in the hall – even the students of the senior courses often attend these lectures. Our new professor is not only a very good specialist in his field of science but also a qualified teacher. He delivers lectures in his own way and gives us many new and interesting facts about the application of Physics in medicine. The professor shows us that at present deep knowledge of this subject will be particularly valuable in our future work. That is why we work hard in physics laboratory and read additional literature on this subject at the library as well.

After my studies I usually go to our library or laboratory. From there I usually come back to the hostel. Sometimes I go in for sports or have club activities or attend different societies. I try to work in the evenings since I must get only good marks. I am often tired but I understand that every day which passes by gives me much valuable and necessary knowledge.

Ex.2. Study the following tables and complete the rules:

PRESENT SIMPLE

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

QUESTIONS

1) We use the present simple tense to describe _____ and _____.

A) things that are happening at the moment.

B) things that happen regularly.

C) general truths.

2) In the third person singular we add _____ to the infinitive.

A) –z

B) –s, -es

C) –ch

3) When the verb ends in vowel - y, we change the –y to _____ in the third person singular.

A) –ies

B) –s

C) –do not change.

4) In negative forms and questions we use _____

A) special verb forms.

B) the infinitive form of the verb.

C) do not use any verb.

5) The pronunciation of the final syllable in the third person singular is _____

A) the same for all the verbs.

B) [s] or [z] or [iz].

C) different every time.

Ex.3. A medical student Ken shares a flat with three other fellow students. He describes their everyday routine. Put the verbs in the box in the correct form to complete the text. Some of them are in the negative. Some can be used more than once.

Chris _____first at about seven o’clock. He _____downstairs and _____ breakfast early, because he _____ work at eight o’clock. When I _____, I _____ the radio and _____ the news. Then I ______ and ______ a shower. I _____ downstairs at about quarter past seven. Sam _____ at about half past seven. He _____ ______ the radio, so he _____ the television and _____ the breakfast programme. He always _____ the volume too loud, so we usually _____ an argument about that. Colin _____to medical college and he is always late. He _____ usually _____ breakfast. He _____ downstairs at the last minute, and _____ out to get the bus. But he usually _____ it, so then I ______ him in my car and I’m late for my studies. I _____ the weekends, because everyone _____ in bed late. But I _____ _____ in bed. I ______ first and _____ my breakfast in peace!

Ex.4. Ask Anna questions about herself and her friend:

1) You know that Anna goes to the University library. You want to know how often. Ask her.

2) Perhaps Anna’s friend likes to study at the University library too. Ask Anna.

3) You know that Anna reads a textbook every day. You want to know which one. Ask her.

4) You know that Anna works. You want to know what she does. Ask Anna.

5) You know that Anna’s friend goes to the cinema a lot. You want to know how often. Ask her.

6) You don’t know where Anna lives. Ask her.

7) You don’t know where Anna’s friend lives. Ask Anna.

8) You know that Anna’s friend doesn’t like to watch TV. You want to know why. Ask Anna.

9) You know that Anna likes Anatomy. You want to know why. Ask her.

10) You know that Anna’s friend goes to bed very late. You want to know when. Ask Anna.

Ex.5. Try to complete the text with the verbs from the box:

FACTS OF LIFE

Every hour nearly 15000 babies are born. The world’s population (1)__________ by 9300. In a lifetime of 65 years the average person (2)____________ television for 12 years and (3)__________ for almost 22 years. Your heart (4)__________ approximately 75 times a minute. In the same 60 seconds you (5)__________ in about 18 times and you (6)__________ 17 times. You (7)__________ between 50 and 100 hairs and more than 1 liter of sweat daily. Our muscles (8)__________ nearly one half of the body water. By 2020 the number of HIV infected people can (9)__________ to 200000000 persons. The area of respiratory surface is equal to 80 sq.m. The number of all lungs alveoli (10)__________ 350000000.

Ex.6. Study the following information in the tables and complete the table with comparative examples:

PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

QUESTIONS

Ex.7. Give the translation of the following sentences:

1) Я сейчас говорю по-английски.

2) Обычно я встаю в 7 часов утра.

3) По понедельникам мои занятия оканчиваются в 5.

4) В данный момент я не слушаю учителя.

5) Я записываю это предложение сейчас.

6) Я занимаюсь каждый день.

7) О чем ты думаешь в данный момент?

8) Как она себя сейчас чувствует?

9) Он звонит своим родителям каждый день.

10) Как часто они ходят в библиотеку Университета?

Ex.8. Put the words in brackets into the correct present tense:

I _____ (work) for a medical scientific laboratory. We _____ (test) different medical equipment, drugs and things like that. At the moment my company _____ (produce) a plan for a new investigation. I usually _____ (work) in the chemical department, but this month I _____ (work) in the department that _____ (control) the level of diseases in various regions of our country. So my whole working day is different just now. I normally _____ (spend) a lot of time indoors, because I _____ (perform) laboratory experiments. But with this new project I _____ (spend) most of the time outdoors moving from one place to another. At the moment we _____ (test) a model of one of the new ambulance cars. I _____ (enjoy) it a lot, because I _____ (learn) many new and interesting things.

Ex.9. Answer the following questions honestly:

1) Do you take a bath or shower in the morning?

2) Do you go to the University by bus or by taxi?

3) Do your classes begin at 9 am or at 9 pm?

4) Do you have Anatomy or Dancing on Tuesday?

5) Do you or does your neighbour study better?

6) Are you listening to the teacher or to your group-mate at the moment?

7) Are you feeling well or sleepy?

8) Are you eating your sandwich or doing grammar exercises now?

9) Are you thinking about your fortune or the correct present tense?

10) Are you looking at the person you are sitting next to or into your textbook?

Ex.10. Describe your daily routine and the working day of your partner. Use this format:

· to wake up

· to get up

· to do morning exercises

· to have shower

· to have breakfast

· to get ready

· to travel to the place of study

· to study

· to have practical classes

· to have a break

· to have a snack

· to have lunch

· to take notes of the lectures

· to have extra-classes

· to go home

· to have dinner

· to make home assignments

· to have free time

· to go to bed

· to sleep well

UNIT 4

SAINT-PETERSBURG STATE PEDIATRIC MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

Ex.1. Study the following text and fill in the table below:

SPbSPMU

St.-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University was founded in 1925 as a Clinical Institute of Maternity and Child Welfare. Later it became a Research Institute. Only in 1932 it started teaching students. In 1935 it got the name “Leningrad (and then St.-Petersburg) Pediatric Medical Institute” which it kept until it was called an “Academy” in June 1994. In 2012 it became University.

The Institute of Maternity and Child Welfare was established on the basis of the City Children’s Hospital built here in 1905. The first buildings of the Institute located along Litovskaya Street were designed for the Hospital by the architect M.I.Kitner. Litovskaya Street was named after the Litovsky regiment as its kitchen gardens occupied this area in 1830-40ies.

St.-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University trains pediatricians (children’s doctors). It has more than 4000 students, many of them coming here from the neighbouring countries and other places of the world. The students study six years. After their final year of internship at one of the city hospitals they get the pediatrician’s diploma and begin their work as children’s doctors. Some of the graduates are admitted to the post-graduate courses at the University or study here to get a specialization in a particular field of medicine.

There are over 55 departments at the University. They are theoretical departments of Anatomy, Histology, Biology, Chemistry, Foreign Languages and others teaching mostly junior students. There are also many clinical departments like three Pediatric departments, Children’s Surgery and two Surgeries for adults, Children’s Infections, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Propedeutics of Children’s Diseases, Internal Diseases and many others. All the clinical departments are attached to the special clinics located not only in Litovskaya Street but also in various hospitals of the city. One of the oldest city’s hospitals, Mariinskaya Hospital houses most of the adult clinical departments.

There is a children’s polyclinic and a women’s health centre attached to the University. They work as a large consultative centre. Patients from the whole city apply here.

From 1925 to 1949 the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute was successfully headed by a talented organizer professor Y.A.Mendeleva. Since then the tradition was to have women as rectors of the Institute (the one broken as late as in the 1980ies).

Famous medical scientists and academicians worked here from its foundation. A.F.Tur, R.R.Vreden, K.K.Skrobansky, M.G.Danilevich and others carried out research and taught students here.

Intensive research work is being carried out at different departments and clinics of the University. Almost every department has a specialized Students’ Scientific Circle where students conduct their investigations under the guidance of the University professors. Students’ Scientific Conferences are held annually by many departments of the University.

Pediatric departments pay special attention to the pathology of the normal child development, physiology and pathology of the newborn. They investigate and treat digestive system diseases, kidney troubles, allergy, blood system disorders in children.

Important investigations were conducted by the Nervous Diseases department. The vaccine for poliomyelitis was approbated here.

Essential studies of cardio-vascular system diseases, cardiac arrhythmia are carried out at the department of Internal Diseases of adults.

Ex.2. Answer the following questions:

1) When was the University founded?

2) What was its original name?

3) Who were the first buildings of the University designed by?

4) How many departments are there in the University?

5) What are the clinical departments attached to?

6) Who was the Institute headed by from 1925 till 1949?

7) What do the pediatric departments pay special attention to?

8) When did the Institute start teaching students?

9) How did Litovskaya Street get its name?

10) What famous scientists worked here?

11) How long does the course of training take?

12) What vaccine was approbated at the Department of Nervous Diseases?

13) When was the tradition of having women as rectors broken?

14) Where are most of the adult clinical departments located?

15) What kind of activity is performed by specialized Students’ Scientific Circles?

Ex.3. Fill in the gaps using the information from the text:

Ex.4. Read one more text about our University and find all the additional information about it:

Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University dates back to the Clinical Institute of Maternity and Child Welfare, which was founded in 1925. In 1932 it started teaching students and became the educational institution of university type with different medical faculties founded by famous medical scientists and academicians (pediatrician A.F.Tur, surgeon R.R.Vreden, obstetrician K.K.Skrobansky, infectionist M.G.Danilevich). The University is the first of the Higher Educational Establishments in the world specializing in pediatrics.

Now the University trains medical personnel on specialities “Pediatrics”, “General Medicine”, “Dentistry”, “Clinical Psychology”, ‘Preventive medicine”, “Nursery” and “Medical Biophysics”. More than four thousand students study at the University, including future specialists from many foreign countries. Today the University is a large educational, scientific and medical institution. Its experts continue traditions of the scientific schools laid by the famous scientists of the University and that allows to carry out the training corresponding to European standards. World famous scientists and founders of scientific schools G.A.Bairov, M.S.Maslov, A.B.Volovik, P.S.Medovikov, E.S.London, F.I.Valker, D.D.Lohov, A.G.Knorre, A.G.Ginetsinsky, V.M.Berman, E.F.Davidenkova, V.A.Valdman, N.N.Elansky, A.A.Rusanov, F.H.Kutushev, S.A.Novoselsky, V.V.Paevsky, S.S.Mnuhin, L.I.Chulitskaya worked in the University. Now more than 80% of the staff have the title of professor.

The University has 64 well-equipped clinical bases, where the students have annual practice. The University campus occupies a big area and represents an architectural-historical complex from 20 buildings being the object of historical and cultural heritage of the federal value. The scientific library contains more than a million editions. Intensive research work is being carried out at different departments and clinics of the University. The graduates of the University have a wide range of choice to continue their studies: postgraduate courses, internship, residency course, post-diploma education.

During its history the University was and remains the leading center of the country in the field of pediatric medical education and science.

Ex.5. Study the following information and copy the sentences below, putting the verbs into the past simple tense:

PAST SIMPLE

POSITIVE

NEGATIVE

QUESTIONS

1) I work at the scientific laboratory now.

Before that __________.

2) I live in Saint-Petersburg now.

Before that __________.

3) I go to the library once or twice a week.

Yesterday __________.

4) I go shopping at weekends.

Yesterday __________.

5) I am well now.

Last week __________.

Ex.6. Write these verbs in the correct column and give the past form: hear, touch, can, come, stop, live, go, do, hurry, meet, drive, listen, decide, have, pay, see, ask, need, move, break, must, write, be, read, work, become, think, operate, keep, speak, play, grow, ask, bring, know, get, take, want, cut, may, forget, make.

Ex.7. Read what medical student Sharon says about her typical working day and write what she did or didn’t do yesterday:

I usually wake up at 7 o’clock every morning. But I don’t get up till quarter past seven. I switch on the radio and listen to the news. Then I go to the bathroom where I clean my teeth, have a shower and dry my hair. I like to have a big breakfast. Then I choose my clothes and get dressed. I walk to the Medical Institute which takes me about half an hour. I start my studies at 09.00. I never have lunch because I always keep to a diet. I just have a cup of coffee with some milk and sugar. I finish my lessons at 3 p.m. I am always tired when I get home. Then I usually cook a meal. I don’t go out in the evenings. I try to spend my free time in our library. I go to bed at 11 o’clock. I always sleep well.

Ex.8. Guess where you are:

1) You are at the Department of Foreign Languages. Go downstairs and turn to the right. Where are you?

2) You are at the Department of Foreign Languages. Go upstairs and turn to the left. Where are you?

3) You are at Petmol café. Go to the left up to the gates. Turn to the right. Enter the building and go to the third floor. Where are you?

4) You are in the main/administrative building of the University. Leave it, turn to the right and go up to the corner. Where are you?

5) Add your own question.

Ex.9. Number the paragraphs of the article in the correct order:

Shark Attack!

A) He thought that this was the end. He fought desperately, but the big shark pulled him down and down. Then suddenly the rope broke and Fox floated slowly to the surface. “Shark! Shark!” he called.

B) Quickly he pushed his fingers into the shark’s eyes. The shark opened its mouth and Fox escaped, swimming as fast as possible to the surface. He thought he was safe, but when he looked down he saw the shark’s huge mouth just below him again.

C) Near the end of the day he looked down and saw a large fish on the sand below him. He dived down to get it. Suddenly something hit him. It knocked the spear gun from his hand and pushed him through the water. He looked round and saw that he was in the mouth of a shark. It was a great white shark, one of the largest and most dangerous sharks in the world.

D) Other spear-fishers heard him and hurried to help him. They lifted him carefully into a boat and took him to the beach. The nearest hospital was 60 kilometers away and during the long journey one of the spear-fishers held Fox’s insides in place. At the hospital he needed 462 stitches, but he survived.

E) So he kicked the shark’s nose hard and it turned away. But then it attacked the fish on the buoy. It swallowed the buoy and the fish. It dived down and the rope on his belt pulled Fox under the water again.

F) It was 2003 and Rodney Fox 20 years old was in the sea off the coast of South Australia. It was the annual spear-fishing championship. Fox did well that day. He caught a lot of fish and he tied them to a small buoy. There was a rope from the buoy to his belt.

THIS IS NOT THE END OF THE STORY…

Ex.10. Choose the possible continuation of Rodney Fox’s life from the list of ideas:

a) He started a campaign to stop spear-fishing.

b) He became a surgeon.

c) He started to study sharks.

d) He gave up spear-fishing.

e) He hunted the shark that attacked him.

f) He tried to kill as many sharks as possible.

g) He started a campaign to protect the great white shark.

h) He became a clinical psychologist.

i) He never went to the sea again.

j) He became a Zoo worker.

Read the rest of the story and check your ideas:

Three months later Fox was back in the water. He started fishing again and this time he only hunted sharks. He wanted revenge. But he soon stopped and started to study them and photograph them instead. He realized that they are not dangerous animals. Dogs, bees and even pigs kill more people than sharks do. But sharks are in danger from people and the number of great white sharks is falling fast. So Rodney Fox started a campaign to protect the great white shark. And today he is studying surgery in one of the local medical institutes. He became older and understood that his life had been saved by a very good doctor. So he decided to become a doctor himself as he had had the chance to deal with the powerful influence of medicine.

Point for discussion: What helped you to choose your future profession? (you might come from the doctor’s family; you might be interested in medicine and love children; you might follow your parents’ advice; you might be influenced by some very good doctor; you might have had the chance to deal with some sick or ill person or some close friend or relative; you might be eager to have power over people; you might have had the possibility to help a person)

UNIT 5

MY FUTURE PROFESSION

Ex.1 Having watched the film about our University, fill in the gaps:

Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University

Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, one of the oldest and largest educational establishments in the world was founded in 1904 as a pediatric hospital. In a)__________ it was converted into the Research Maternity Centre. In 1935 the Centre was renamed to the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute and in b)__________ the medical establishment became an Academy.

The Russian medical education is recognized worldwide and by the right it is considered to be one of the best. The University has been put into the list of the institutions of World Health Organization (WHO) and in its Directory of World Medical schools.

The University campus consists of 20 buildings, where the departments, classrooms, clinical hospitals, administrative buildings, sport complex and cafes are situated. The University has the strong material and technical resources to train the specialists of the most humane profession – the profession of a c)__________.The University library contains more than a million books and magazines. Besides, the students of the University have the possibility to use the great number of libraries based in d)__________.

The postgraduate studies in the University are in great demand, as there are more than 60 clinics, maternity homes and hospitals in Saint-Petersburg offered by the University, wherein the students have the possibility to work. Besides the training hospital of 815 beds, situated on the campus territory, which accepts more than 15000 patients annually, the University also has the largest city e)__________ hospital of 1200 beds and City Multi-Profile hospital №2 of 2000 beds – two of the oldest and the most well-known European medical institutions.

Here the students have a chance of practical managing of patients, attend complex and difficult operations with the use of the latest technologies. Thus, students have a chance to receive experience of practical medical work during the training.

Ex.2(A). Complete the table with proper information:

Ex.2(B). Pronounce the following postgraduate studies specializations correctly:

Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Anaesthesiology

Reanimatology

Otorhinolaryngology

Ophthalmology

Paediatrics

Infections and Tropical Diseases

Cardiology

Immunology and Allergology

Radiology and Rentgenology

Physiotherapy

General Surgery

Oncology

Psychiatry and Narcology

Traumatology and Orthopaedics

Urology

Phtysiopulmanology

Pulmanology

Dermatovenerology

Neurology and Neurosurgery

Endocrinology

Social Medicine and Management in Public Health

Gastroenterology

Maxillofacial Surgery

Ex.3. Write the letter to your American friend and suggest him arriving to our country for studying at our University.

Ex.4. Read the letter below and speak about your future profession:

Petrova Anna

Room 65

Hostel 1

Kantemirovskaya Street, 16

Saint Petersburg State Pediatric

Medical University

Saint Petersburg – 194100

Russia

Mary Smith

London University                                 September 15, 2014

London, UK

IG324 8MK

Hi, Mary! How time flies!

I am a fourth-year student at present already.

It is not easy to study medicine. To tell you the truth, it’s very difficult. Medicine is cosmos. The medical curriculum is arduous. Medical students must work very hard. As for me, I am constantly pressed for time.

You know, I have wished to be a doctor since my childhood. Do you remember I had a chance to be treated by a very good pediatrician when a child? I think it was his influence as well that I decided to enter the Medical University. And only now being a fourth-year student I begin to understand that Pediatrics is a very particular field of medicine. It deals with ill children, sometimes with very ill children. One must have a God-given talent to be a good pediatrician.

By the way, it’s a pity that the social status of medical profession in our country today is not as high as it should be. It’s not well paid, though it’s hard and demanding. That’s why only those who really care for medicine and children become medical students.

As for me, I understand that to be a doctor it is necessary to have deep professional knowledge. While studying I master the basic theoretical and practical medicine. And I am going to read medical articles in Russian and English to keep abreast of modern achievements in medicine.

You know me well, I am quiet and friendly by nature and I hope I’ll be able to get on with different kinds of people and to manifest a sympathetic and caring attitude to my patients.

I believe I’ll be able to establish adequate contacts with children and their parents to gain my patients’ confidence, to reassure their fears. I hope they will trust me and respect.

I’m sorry to say that our state medicine today is very poor. There is shortage of practically everything: modern equipment, good instruments, necessary drugs and so on. But our doctors do their best to help their patients. They are true to the Hippocratic Oath.

I miss you. I am looking forward to hear from you soon.

Yours, Anna.

Ex.5. Read the original and modern texts of the doctors’ oath, compare them and find those sentences which give the information about ethical principles of this profession:

THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH

I swear by Apollo – the physician, by Asclepius Hygea and Panaces, and I take to witness all the gods, and the goddesses, to keep according to my ability the following Oath.

I will prescribe regimen for the good of my patients according to my ability and never do harm to anyone. I will not prescribe a deadly drug, nor give advice which may cause him death.

In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients, I will keep myself far from all intentional ill-doings, and especially from the pleasures of love with women or with men, be they free or slaves. All that may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession or outside my profession, which must not be spread abroad, I will keep secret and will never reveal.

If I keep this oath faithfully, may I enjoy my life and practice my art, respected by all men and in all times, but if I swerve from it or violate it, may the reverse be my lot.

THE OATH OF THE RUSSIAN DOCTOR

At the time of receiving the honorary title of doctor and going to practice my medical profession, I swear this solemn oath:

I will give all my knowledge, strength and abilities to the protection and improvement of people’s health, the treatment and prevention of diseases and work hard to the benefit of society;

I will always be ready to give medical aid and deal with every case attentively and carefully and keep a medical secret;

I will constantly perfect my knowledge of medicine and medical skill; working hard I will promote the development of medical science and practice;

I will seek my colleagues’ advice if necessary in the interests of the patient and never refuse them to give my advice and assistance;

I will cherish and develop the noble traditions of the home medicine, I will follow the principles of the modern society and always remember about the honorary calling of the Russian doctor, about all the responsibility to the people and the Russian State.

I swear to be true to this oath all my life.

Ex.6(A) Many bright and motivated medical students describe their “dream career” with the following characteristics. Agree or disagree with their statements:

1) Opportunity to serve: Allows you to help people.

2) Action: Doesn’t tie you to a desk all the time.

3) Respect: You are an important part of your country.

4) Excitement: Changes daily, so it’s hardly ever boring.

5) Mobility: You’re in demand wherever you choose to live.

6) Flexibility: Gives you lots of career options from the same education base.

7) Security: Allows you a good living with a secure future.

8) Experience: Different patients with different problems.

9) Communication: You’ll never become isolated.

10) Personality: Your development can be easily achieved.

Ex.6(B). Answer the following questions:

1) What faculty do you study at?

2) How many first-year students study at your faculty?

3) What specialists are trained at the faculty?

4) How long is the course of studies?

5) Who is the Dean of your faculty?

6) What group do you study in?

7) How many students are there in your group?

8) Do they carry on research work in the Students’ Scientific Societies?

9) How many students of your group are going to take part in the annual Students’ Scientific Conference?

10) Why did you choose this profession?

Ex.7. Study the timetable of one of the medical students from India and compose your own one:

Ex.8. Read the following dialogue and put the verbs into the correct form:

Doctor Julia Smith and Doctor Kevin Goodheart are old friends. They meet by chance at a station in Liverpool:

Julia: Hello, Kevin! I have not seen you for a long time. How are you?

Kevin: I __________ (to be) fine. How about you? You __________ (to look) well.

Julia: Yes, I __________ (to be) very well, thanks. So, __________ you __________ (to leave) anywhere or __________ you _________ (to meet) anybody off a train here now?

Kevin: I __________ (to leave) to London for a medical conference this time.

Julia: Oh, __________ you often __________ (to go) away on business?

Kevin: Quite often, yes. And you? What _________ you __________ (to do) at the station now?

Julia: You know, I _________ (not, to travel) this time. I __________ (to meet) my colleague, Doctor Petrova from Russia.

Kevin: I see. How are your children, by the way?

Julia: They __________ (to be) all fine, thanks. The youngest daughter __________ (to enter) medical school last year.

Kevin: __________ she __________ (to like) to study there?

Julia: Yes, she __________ (to think) it’s great!

Kevin: Where __________ you __________ (to work) at the moment? When I last __________ (to speak) to you, you __________ (to work) at the Department of Cardiology in Glasgow.

Julia: That’s right. But things never __________ (to stay) the same. Some months ago I __________ (to get) an invitation to take the post of the Head of Cardiology Center in Liverpool. I __________ (to accept) it and here I am!

Kevin: Lucky you __________ (to be)!

Julia: And __________ you __________ (to have) a permanent job?

Kevin: Unfortunately, I __________ (to finish) my investigations on TB treatment in a scientific laboratory in Canada last year. But I __________ (to decide) to try my luck in another sphere of scientific research. I __________ (to go) to Cambridge to do research at their laboratory four months ago. They __________ (to give) me a chance to carry out investigations with a team of ten experienced people. And I __________ (to realize) the excitement of independent research then.

Julia: So, what __________ you __________ (to do) there?

Kevin: You know, I __________ (to hope) to get the Nobel Prize for it! Anyway, I must go and catch my train. It __________ (to be) really nice to see you again!

Julia: You too. Bye. Have a good journey!

Kevin: Thanks. Bye.

Ex.9. Study the text and supply the best title for the story:

A) THE STRANGE DOCTOR or…

B) THE MAGIC POWER OF PROFESSIONAL SKILL or…

C) Your own variant

One summer day a young man with his wife and a three-month old baby were driving to visit their relatives in the country. It was getting dark. They were late and nervous because their baby had been crying all the way. All of a sudden he stopped breathing. He was suffocating. His face and body became cyanotic and convulsions began. The parents were in despair. What should they do? Come back to the town? But how much time would it take?

Suddenly the young woman noticed a large neglected house with a sign announcing that a doctor lived there. They hurried to the house and rang the bell. A tall grey-haired man opened the door and said that he was a doctor. There was no one else in the house. They entered a dusty and disordered consulting-room. The doctor had been examining the baby for a long time but with evident skill, then told them that their baby had some intracranial disorder and that the only chance of saving the baby’s life was to operate him at once.

The parents hesitated, but they had no choice. “You’ll have to act as an anaesthetist”, - the doctor said to the father, - “as there’s no one else here”. Weak, sick, shocked and half unconscious themselves, the parents obeyed silently. But when the baby had been etherized, the doctor with a knife in his hand advised: “You’d better wait outside. I can get on alone now.”

Staying in the darkness and looking into the lighted room, the parents suddenly heard some footsteps and were shocked by the sight of three men, two of them armed and the third carrying a rope. They were approaching slowly. “For God’s sake, wait, please,” – the parents asked them. – “Our baby’s skull has been opened, any delay now may lead to his death.” Whispering, one of the men asked, - “What do you take us for?” – “Thieves”. “No, - the man answered, - “We work at the neighbouring insane asylum. The man operating on your child is mad. He escaped only two hours ago…

THIS IS NOT THE END OF THE STORY…

Now choose a conclusion to the story under the letter a) or b) and see whether it is correct and why:

To save their baby

a) the parents let the three men interrupt the operation;

b) the parents didn’t let the three men interrupt the operation.

a) Suppose, you say they let the three men interrupt the operation to save their baby. Of course, they might have done it because the doctor was mad. There was a little chance that a madman could perform a successful operation. Moreover, this doctor being mad and with a knife in his hand could easily kill their poor baby. But let’s hope he didn’t. Remember his evident skill when he was examining the baby. He might perform that operation out of habit due to his professional skill. But if he were interrupted the baby would certainly die. His skull was opened and any delay meant death to him. In any case there was no choice.

b) Suppose, you say they didn’t let the three men interrupt the operation to save their baby. You are to be congratulated on the right choice! The parents knew that only an immediate operation could save their baby and there was a chance that the mad doctor was able to operate out of habit. Your reward is to read the end of the story. And here it comes:

The three men agreed to wait until the operation was over. Looking through the window they saw the operation was finished. Having entered the room the three men sprang upon the madman who, fighting, was taken away. The men promised the frightened parents to send a doctor and a nurse…

Some days later the baby recovered sufficiently to be taken to the town where he was hospitalized under the observation of a prominent neonatologist. Having examined the baby carefully, this doctor said: “Your baby will get well and he will be perfectly normal again but I can’t understand anything. Only the operation could have saved him and only one man has ever performed such operation successfully. But that doesn’t explain anything because that particular man went mad some years ago and is now in an asylum somewhere in the country.”

Ex.10. To check the understanding of the text complete the sentences:

Choose the correct variant only:

1) Young parents were driving

a) to visit their father and mother in the country.

b) to have a rest for some days.

c) to consult the doctor.

2) The parents were in despair because

a) they could not find the way.

b) something was wrong with their car.

c) their baby fell ill.

3) The doctor

a) refused to examine the child.

b) examined the baby very carefully.

c) asked his assistant to examine the child.

4) The doctor

a) made the diagnosis without examining the child.

b) couldn’t make the diagnosis.

c) revealed some intracranial disorder.

5) The three men were

a) thieves.

b) doctors.

c) policemen.

Retell the story using the following words and word combinations:

To visit, convulsions, neglected house, to examine with skill, urgent operation, shocked parents, “thieves”, a mad man from asylum, to make a decision, to interrupt, to perform the operation, to fight, to recover, extraordinary operation.

Here are some points for discussion:

1) What do you think of the decision of the parents to let the doctor operate on their baby?

2) Why was the operation successful?