编写本书的目的是帮助医学专业的学习者提高语音、朗读和复述的能力与技巧，为更高阶段的学习打下坚实的基础。本书适用于在校医学生及其他中高级水平的英语学习者。
不同于通用的口语教材，本书选材贴近医学专业学生的兴趣，适合就医学内容进行英语口语操练，提高英语口语能力。教程遵循“输出驱动，整合教学”的外语教学理念，语言输入与输出相结合，强调全球化背景下医学专业学习者英语表达与交流能力的培养；在帮助学习者提升英语语音与朗读复述技巧的同时，感受人文关怀，拓展知识视野，陶冶情操。

Unit 1
Text A
The Medical Student Who Cries
Text B
Why I Study Memory
Reading Aloud
升调(rising tone)
Unit 2
Text A
A Phsician-entrepreneur’s
Typical Clinical Day
Text B
Compassionate Doctor Patient Relationships
Reading Aloud
降调(falling tone)
Unit 3
Text A
Can Empathy be Taught，or Is It Innate？
Text B
A Trucker，a Doctor，and a Lifesaving Coincidence
Reading Aloud
轻重规则(stressed and unstressed)
Unit 4
Text A
How Hubei Fought the Virus
Text B
A Shift with Medic 61
Reading Aloud
弱化现象(reduction)1
Unit 5
Text A
Disease in a World Without a Leader
Text B
Growing Pains
Reading Aloud
弱化现象(reduction)2
Unit 6
Text A
What I Wish You Knew about My Chronic Illness
Text B
What Can We Learn From Amish People？
Reading Aloud
连读(1iaison)1——辅元连读
Unit 7
Text A
Find Peace Anytime，Anyplace
Text B
ADay in the Life of Your Skin
Reading Aloud
连读(1iaison)2——元元连读
Unit 8
Text A
Beware of Medical Web Searches
Text B
A Digital Revolution in Health Care is Coming．Welcome It
Reading Aloud
连读(1iaison)3——辅辅连读、失去爆破
Unit 9
Text A
Clones will Herald New Therapies，But will They Be Accepted，Asks Andy Coghlan
Text B
Will AI Make Medicine More Human？
Reading Aloud
浊化(voicing)
Unit 10
Text A
Euthanasia and a Final Gift
Text B
How Doctors Determine Moment of Death？
Reading Aloud
停顿(pause)
Glossary