Exploring Healthcare Careers: Benefits and Insights
Posted on Feb 15, 2025 in Medicine & Health
Healthcare Careers: Questions and Answers
1. Answer the questions:
a) What is special about careers in health?
R: They represent a vocation and are ideal for people who want to help others.
b) What do you need to succeed in this field?
R: Teamwork, outstanding skills, and being a good team member.
c) Are people grateful to healthcare workers?
R: Yes, patients and their families are usually very grateful.
d) Is it boring to work in the health sector? Why or why not?
R: No, because every day is different and there are always new challenges.
e) What is the most satisfying aspect of these professions?
R: Helping patients and contributing to their physical and emotional well-being.
2. Titles for the paragraphs:
- 1: Career Specialization
- 2: Excellent Career Prospects
- 3: Teamworking
- 4: Helping People
- 5: Stimulating Work Environment
3. Find words or expressions in the text:
a) Developing, increasing: Growing (par. 1)
b) Promote: Advance (par. 2)
c) Medical students in a hospital: Interns (par. 3)
d) Grateful: Appreciative (par. 4)
e) Satisfied: Rewarded (par. 4)
V Vocabulary
4. Complete the sentences:
a) He works in the oncology unit, where he helps people who suffer from cancer.
b) Children’s diseases are looked after in the paediatrics ward.
c) She is a dedicated nurse who helps old people in geriatrics.
d) To diagnose diseases they use X-ray images, among other techniques.
e) Nurse midwives give women pre-natal and post-natal healthcare.
5. Choose the correct answer:
a) Part-time
b) Well-paid
c) Organised
d) Scruffy
e) Skilled
6. Opposites with prefixes or suffixes:
a) He is really impatient.
b) My mother is not disorganised at all.
c) I think his boss is dishonest.
d) Opening a clinic without the government requirements and permits is illegal in Spain.
e) They don’t accept any unskilled workers.
7. Fill in the blanks with the correct verb:
a) Every winter I catch a cold.
b) Doctors don’t like to prescribe antibiotics if it is not necessary.
c) You have to lie in bed when you run a temperature.
d) In Spain, most parents vaccinate children against infectious diseases.
e) When he is very stressed, his nose begins to bleed.
G Grammar
8. Present simple or continuous:
1. suffers
2. weighs
3. has
4. is always checking
5. think
6. feels
7. is not going
8. is not skipping
9. is visiting
10. is following
9. Relative pronouns:
1. People who don’t follow hygiene procedures…
2. Even in this decade, when everybody has access to information…
3. There are countries where part of the population…
4. We all know that people who can’t clean their hands…
5. These are people whose living conditions…
10. Join the sentences with relative pronouns:
a) I want to talk to the doctor who is specialised in skin conditions.
b) The patient whose bed is by the window is shaking.
c) Mary is a nurse who works in diagnostic imaging.
d) We often go to a clinic where they treat degenerative diseases.
e) I usually exercise outdoors in spring, when the weather is warm.
