兩位作者在醫學英語教學研究方面均擁有豐富的經驗。全書從方法論視角轉向「基於任務」和「基於問題解決」的角度，涵蓋醫學和語言教育兩大領域的前沿話題，探討醫學教育和語言教育在近年發展中的許多交匯現象。醫學專業方面，本書更關注臨床實踐和應用層面；語言技能方面，則更注重跨文化交流能力培養層面。各章主要包括：醫療環境中跨文化交流能力的性質、如何理解醫學行業的英語口語、在醫學英語教學中如何運用任務型和解決問題型的方法、關鍵技能的發展、醫學英語教學過程中文學和可視化多媒體資源的運用，等等。《醫學英語教育》適合從事醫學英語教學研究的科研工作者、教師和醫學類院校學生以及醫學領域從業人員閱讀。

1 Introduction一English in Medical Education 12 Intercultural Communicative Competence in Medical Settings 15Defining Intercultural Communicative Competence 17Components of Intercultural CommunicativeCompetence: Savoirs and Resources 19Intercultural Communicative Competence: Nationaland International Standards 22Models of Cross-Cultural Competence in Medical Education 26TACCT and the Savoirs 293 Task Design in Language and Medical Education 33Task-based Learning in Intercultural Language Education 33TBL and PBL 37Intercultural Problem-based Learning 40Intercultural Language Tasks for Medical Students:Working with Children 46Integrating Intercultural learning with PBL Scenarios 504 Exploring Medical Language 54Healthcare Portals as a Source of Medical Languageand Content 56Exploring Medical Language with Online Resources 58Medical Terms in General Corpora: Frequency and Collocation 59Insights from a Medical Corpus: Teenage Health Freak 66Data Collection: Everyday Perspectives on Mental Health Care 68Analysing Key Words to Show Salience 72Language, Medicine and the Web 795 Medical Talk 81Professional-Patient Interaction as Conversation 83Presenting the Self 91Mediation in Healthcare Consultations 95Doctor-Doctor Talk 98Patient Talk: Everyday Beliefs 101Intercultural Framing 105Intercultural Interactions in Medical Settings 1156 Critical Cultural Awareness in Medical Education 117Savoir s’’Esgager: Critical Cultural Awareness 117Different Perspectives on Illness and Disease 119Power and Authority in Medical Encounters 121Curing and Healing, Disease and Illness 123Medical Pluralism in Japan 125The Healthcare Professional as Ethnographer 129Illness and Metaphor 131Birth in Different Cultures 1317 Literature and Language in Medical Education 139W妙the Medical Humanities? 140Resources for Teaching the Medical Humanities 143Selecting Appropriate Texts 145Task Design: Medicine, Literature and InterculturalLanguage Education 148Monitoring Student Responses and DevelopingLiterary Skills 1538 The Visual Arts in Medical Education 157Images in Language and Medical Education 158Developing Visual Literacy 160A Case Study: From Visual Analysis to Cultural Research 168From Art as Image to Art as Concept and Practice 172Moving Images: Film and Television 1739 Course Design for Intercultural Language Education in MedicalSettings 178Principles of English for Specific Purposes 179Environment Analysis 182Needs Analysis 183Curricular Goals 186Content and Sequencing 188Format and Presentation of Learning Materials 190Monitoring and Assessment 193Evaluation 195Conclusion 196References 197Index 212