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Lesson 3
Topic: MEDICAL TRAINING IN GREAT BRITAIN
Grammar: English Tenses (Active Voice)
Vocabulary
apprenticeship
–
being a learner of a trade who has agreed to work
for a number of years in return for being taught
exhaustive
–
thorough, complete
attachment
–
act of fastening or joining
bent
–
natural skill in and liking, inclination or aptitude
competence
–
ability, skill, knowledge, etc to do what is need-
ed
placement
–
positioning, appointment, arrangement
to sample
–
to evaluate, to make an attempt to get or win, to
do sth, as an experiment or test, to see whether it
is satisfactory
to submit
–
put (oneself) under the control of another, put
forward for opinion, discussion, decision, etc.
supervision
–
watching and directing (work, workers, organi-
zation)
1. Read and translate the text.
Several centuries ago a young man
could become a doctor by serving an ap-
prenticeship to a practicing physician,
meanwhile taking a few night courses in
anatomy. Today the future doctor must
pass successfully through eight to thirteen
or more years of the most demanding, in-
tensive and exhaustive study before set-
ting up his practice.
Medical education in the UK covers:
–
Undergraduate education
– four or five years at medical school,
the section of a university responsible for medical education.
The
MBChB (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery)
is a
five-year undergraduate medical degree course. Most of learning takes
place in small groups. The main components are:
–
Core (Years 1–3)