American English Pronunciation for Medical Professionals

Medically Speaking RULES is an innovative, comprehensive, cutting-edge approach to accent modification designed for intermediate to advanced students in the healthcare professions. Medically Speaking RULES reinforces the underlying skills introduced in Medically Speaking: Accent Modification for the Medical Profession. The realistic and practical content of Medically Speaking RULES will help the healthcare professional become a more effective communicator and thus enhance the caregiver-patient relationship and the quality of patient care.

FEATURES:

• Field-tested with residents, physicians, and nurses in various healthcare settings
• Incorporates vocabulary development activities into many of the units
• Provides strategies for effective and efficient communication in the workplace
• Includes rules and word and sentence practice for pronunciation of compound nouns, proper nouns, heteronyms, acronyms and initializations, syllable and sentence stress, numbers, Y-insertions, syllable reductions, past tense endings, -s endings
• Provides a comprehensive set of sound-loaded clinically oriented reading paragraphs/case histories to reinforce consistent pronunciation of difficult sounds and vowels and intonation patterns
• Introduces additional idiomatic expressions

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