Working in the USA

Introduction

A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments. They may focus their practice on certain disease categories, types of patients, or methods of treatment – known as specialist medical practitioners – or assume responsibility for the provision of continuing and comprehensive medical care to individuals, families, and communities – known as general practitioners. Medical practice properly requires both a detailed knowledge of the academic disciplines (such as anatomy and physiology) underlying diseases and their treatment – the science of medicine – and also a decent competence in its applied practice – the art or craft of medicine.

A medical specialist is a doctor who has completed advanced education and clinical training in a specific area of medicine (his/her specialty area). Examples of medical specialists include the following: Addiction psychiatrist, Adolescent medicine specialist, Allergist (immunologist), Anesthesiologist, Cardiac electrophysiologist, Cardiologist, Cardiovascular surgeon, etc.

Task

You are a recognized medical specialist (cardiologist, surgeon, internist, etc.) who has been invited to give a talk in Seattle, USA in two weeks. The talk will take place on Monday, August the 28^th.

A person from the most important hospital that is specialized in you are in the USA was in your talk and wants to hire you. You will apply for the job, therefore you will be interviewed by the head of the Human Resources Office; you have to share with him/her general information about you and the experience you have as a physician up to now.

With your partner, you will be taking turns as audience, when you give the talk as the head of the Human Resources Office and as interviewee, when the interview takes place.

Resources

Below are some sites that will help you accomplish the task.

Websites

• American Board of Medical Specialties
  http://www.abms.org/Who_We_Help/Physicians/specialties.aspx
• Best hospital 2013
  http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/rankings
• Hotels in Seattle

http://www.holidayinn.com/hotels/us/es/hd/united-states/washington/seattle-hotels

• American Airlines

http://www.aa.com/international/internationalSplashAccess.do?countryCodeForIP=MX

• Mexico City International Airport

http://www.aicm.com.mx/home_en.php

• Exchanging personal information in English

http://www.saberingles.com.ar/lists/personal.html http://www.vocabulary.cl/Basic/Personal_Information.htm http://www.elalmanaque.com/English/Conversation/personal_information.htm http://esl.about.com/od/beginnerpronunciation/a/bd_personalinfo.htm

Process

1. Gather in pairs.
2. Search for information about flights and hotels.
3. Answer these questions:

·         What flight will you take?

·         Where will you stay?

·         How much money will you spend?

4. Complete the form you are given once you arrive in USA.
5. Prepare your talk on any topic related to your area of expertise. You will speak during 2 minutes. Use visuals.
6. In the interview you will ask (as the interviewer) and will answer (as the interviewee) the following questions:

·         What do you do?

·         What’s your last name?

·         What’s your first name?

·         Where are you from?

·         What’s your nationality?

·         What’s your address?

·         What’s your zip code?

·         What’s your home phone number?

·         What’s your cell phone number?

·         What’s your e-mail address?

·         Are you married?

·         How old are you?

·         Do you like being a physician? What’s the aspect you like best about it?

7. Complete the form you are given once you come back to Mexico.
8. Role-play the task.

Evaluation

SPEAKING

5	addresses the task effectively with unnoticeable errors  in language structure and use, as well as vocabulary and pronunciation .
4	contains some parts of 5 and 3
3	some parts of the task are not addressed;  some errors in language structure and use, as well as vocabulary and pronunciation .
2	contains some parts of 3 and 1
1	addresses only slight parts of the task;  very noticeable errors in language structure and use, as well as vocabulary and pronunciation.

WRITING

Task completion

5	Filled-in the application form, providing all the information required correctly.
3	Filled-in the application form omitting half of the information required and/or some incorrect information given.
1	Filled-in the application form omitting most of the information (more than half) required, and/or a lot of incorrect information given.
0	Did not fill up the form.

Vocabulary

5	No problems in understanding what information is required therefore the vocabulary used is accurate.
3	Some problems in understanding what information is required therefore the some of the vocabulary used is inaccurate.
1	Misunderstanding in a lot of the information required, therefore a lot of inaccurate vocabulary.

Conclusion

Upon completion of this project you will have learned how to exchange personal information and how to fill-in forms.