Hospital

departments

OBJECTIVES:
• LEARNING ABOUT HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS,
• ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS
 pharmacy orthopedics
Surgery
Dermatology
obstetrics

Hospital departments
emergency cardiology pediatrics
Pathology Radiology
 Hospital departments
• What are some different hospital departments?
Some different hospital departments are pediatrics,
radiology, obstretics, emergency, etc.
• Why is important to know what different
departments do?
It is important to know what different departments do
so that patients are sent to the correct ones to treat
their problems.
Pediatrics Pathology Radiology
Cardiology Orthopedics Obstretrics
Cardiology

Dermatology

Pathology
Surgery Pathology Cardiology
Cardiology Emergency Pediatrics
Cardiology Emergency Obstetrics
Dermatology Emergency Cardiology
Cardiology Pediatrics Obstetrics
Cardiology Pediatrics Obstetrics
Reading
Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F).

T Silver’s department performs organ transplants.

1. ___Dr.
T
2. ___Dr. Howard’s and Dr. Locke’s departments work with all
other hospital departments.
F pharmacy is closed on Sundays.
3. ___The
 VOCABULARY
3. Match the words (1-5) with the definitions (A-E).
A.The hospital department that specializes in the
treatment of the heart and heart diseases.
E PEDIATRICS
1___ B.The hospital department that treats women and
D ORTHOPEDICS unborn children during pregnancy
2___
C.The hospital department that specializes in the
A
3___CARDIOLOGY treatment of the skin and skin diseases.
D.The hospital department that specializes in the
C
4___DERMATOLOGY treatment of bones and muscles
B
5___OBSTETRICS E the hospital department that specializes in the
treatment of children.
 4 Fill in the blanks with the correct words from the Word bank:

radiology pathology surgery

emergency pharmacy

pathology
1 Please take this sample to _______________ for testing.
emergency
2 An ambulance brought the patient to the__________room.
radiology
3 could you get the X-rays from __________?
pharmacy on the first floor should have the medicine you
4 The ____________
need.
surgery
5 Take this patient to _____________ for her transplant.
 1. Pediatrics a) Provides bone and joint care.
2. Obstetrics b) Cares for everything from warts to skin cancer.
3. Radiology c) Treats patients in life-threatening condition.
4. Pathology d) Creates X-rays and CT scans for all departments.
5. Surgery e) Tests samples for all deparments.
6. Cardiology f) Investigates and treats all heart problems.
7.Dermatology g) Cares for women through all stages of pregnacy
8.Orthopedics h) Performs everything from routine procedures to
organ transplants.
9.Emergency i)Provides healthcare from birth to adulthood.

1-i 2-g 3-d 4-e 5-h 6-f 7-b 8-a 9-c

 6. Listen to a conversation between a doctor and a
patient. Choose the correct answer:
Track 3

1. Where is the dermatology department?

A. downstairs
B. on the third floor
C. past the pharmacy
D. next to the emergency room
2. What will the woman likely do next?
A. visit the pharmacy
B. go to the emergency room
C. make a radiology appointment
D. go to the dermatology department
 7. Listen again and complete the conversation:

In great health
Track 3
do
about • Look at
• Pharmacy
look • radiology
at • in great
health
On the third floor
radiology • do about
• On the
third floor
pharmacy
 Put the conversation in order (1-9):

• 9
___A: Yes, next to the surgery • 8
___B That´s on the second floor
department. right?
• 1
___A: Other than your wrist, • 6
___B: I´ll go there right away.
you´re in good health • ___B: where´s
4 that department?
• 7
___A: But first, you should stop • ___B: Ok doctor, where should I
2
by the pharmacy. Your go next?
prescription will be ready soon.
• ___A: I want
3 you to go to
radiology for some x-rays.
• 5
___A: it´s on the fourth floor.
Turn left after the dermatology
department
9.writing: use the conversation from task 8 to fill out the
patient´s notes

• . Fill prescription

-Make appointment to look at

rash.
-Radiology
-The pharmacy
-It´s on the second floor, next to
the surgery room
-It´s on the fourth floor, turn left
after dermatology.
 Guess
• You can fill prescriptions, seven days a
week
• Cares for women through all stages of
pregnacy

• Performs everything from routine

procedures to organ transplants.

• Creates X-rays and CT scans for all

departments
• Emergency room (A&E): The
accident and emergency department
of a hospital.

• Consulting room: a room where a

doctor examines a patient and
discusses their medical problems
with them.

• Delivery room: a room in a hospital

where women give birth.
• Housekeeping department:
the department of a hospital
that is responsible for cleaning
rooms.

• Intensive care unit (ICU):

the department of a hospital
for people who are so ill or
badly injured that they need
to have special medical care
and be watched very closely.
• Maternity ward: the part of a
hospital where pregnant women or
women who have just given birth to
babies are looked after

• Nursery: an area in a hospital where

new babies are looked after until
they go home
• Operating room / operating theatre: a room in a
hospital where doctors perform medical operations
• Pharmacy: the part of a hospital where medicines are
prepared
• Sick room: a room where someone who is ill rests or
gets medical treatment

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/thesaurus-
category/british/rooms-and-departments-in-hospitals-and-clinics
Page #2
Match the words with the definitions
9
___The accident and emergency department of a
hospital.
8
___A room where a doctor examines a patient and
discusses their medical problems with them.
10 room in a hospital where women give birth.
___A
6
___The department of a hospital that is responsible for
cleaning rooms.
7
___The department of a hospital for people who are so
ill or badly injured that they need to have special
medical care and be watched very closely.
 4
___The part of a hospital where pregnant women or women who
have just given birth to babies are looked after.
___An area in a hospital where new babies are looked after until
5 go home.
they
___A room in a hospital where doctors perform medical
3
operations.
___The part of a hospital where medicines are prepared.
1
___A room where someone who is ill rests or gets medical
2
treatment.
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VOCABULARY PRACTICE
is a situation in which • Medical discipline that
someone´s life is in deals with the
danger. Requires treatment of bones,
immediate attention from muscles, ligaments, and
trained medical tendons.
personnel.
emergency orthopedics
Medical discipline that • is a location staffed by
deals with the study and pharmacists that
diagnosis of diseases. If distributes
often involves the pharmaceutical drugs.
inspectios of organs,
tissues, and bodily fluids.

Pathology pharmacy
• Medical discipline that • medical discipline that
deals with the use of deals with the use of
technology such as x- instruments to operate
rays, MRI´s, and CT on patients. It is used to
scans to identify and diagnose and treat
diagnose disease. disease and injury.

radiology surgery
• medical discipline that • Medical discipline that
deals with the health of deals with the care of
the skin. women and children
during pregnancy and
childbirth

dermatology obstetrics
• medical discipline that • Medical discipline that
deals with the heart. deals with the care of
children

cardiology pediatrics
Pharmacy 9Sick room Surgery 8
10 Emergency
7
11Physio
therapy Pediatrics
6
Obstetrics
Dentistry
12 5

Nursery
4
1
2
Radiology Consulting room
Pathology 3
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 Hospital

Orthopedics Cardiology Dermatology

Pathology Pharmacy

Surgery

Radiology Obstetrics Pediatrics Emergency

1. Where is dermatology department?
Next to cardiology
Dermatology is __________
2. Where is pathology department?
second floor,
Pathology is on the _______
next to
__________ pharmacy.
3. Where is obstetrics department?
first
It’s on the ________ floor
4. Where is cardiology department?
between the Ortophedics and
Cardiology is __________
dermatology department.
1. Where is the pharmacy? 5. Where is cardiology?
2. Where is the radiology department? 6. Which departments are on the 2nd floor?
3. Where is obstetrics? 7. Which departments are on the 1st floor?
8. Which departments are on the 3rd floor?
4. Where is the pathology department?
 1.Where is radiology?
It’s__________pathology.
In front of

2.Where is emergency?
In front of
It’s ____________surgery.

Next to
3.Where is the pharmacy? It’s___________pathology.

between pediatricts and

4. Where is radiology? It’s ________________
surgery.
 Which departments are on the
second floor?
Pop-corn reading Obstetrics is on the second floor
next to pediatrics
How can patients get to the
surgery wing?
The Surgery wing is only accesible
through the lobby elevators.

Which departments aren´t

affected by the construction?
The emergency room and the
pharmacy are unaffected.
 Read and mark the following statements as true (t) or false (f).

F
1. ____The hospital is beginning costruction to repair damages.
The hospital is beginning construction to update its facilities.

T
2. ____The radiology department is on the same floor as the
cardiology department.

F
3. ____Patients have to go through the pathology department to
get to orthopedics.
Patients have to go through dermatology to get to orthopedics.
 Write a Word that is similiar in meaning to the
underlined part
1.Andrew´s son is sick, so he takes him to the department that deals
with the care of children. pediatrics
2.The patient needs medicine so he goes to the place where
pharmacists distribute pharmaceutical drugs. pharmacy
3.Employees in the department that studies and diagnoses diseases
must wear gloves and goggles. pathology
4.Doctors in a medical field that uses instruments to operate on
patients need very steady hands. surgery
5.Edgar Works on an ambulance, so he sees plenty of situations in
which somenone´s life is in danger. emergencies
 Check the sentence that uses the underlined part correctly

1____ A Alberto is at the cardiology department because

his heart is beating abnormally.
____B Doctors in the pathology department respond to
emergency situation.

2- ____ A Maria is going to the surgery

department to pick up her prescription.
____ B Greisy has a broken leg so she´s going to
the orthopedics department.
3. _____ A The pregnant woman is in the obstetrics department.
_____ B Doctors who work in the pathology department only
care for children.

4. ____ A Doctors usually perform the surgery at the pharmacy.

____ B Christian takes x-rays in the radiology department

5 _____ A The pediatrics deparment is where doctors inspect

organs to diagnose diseases.
_____ B Joe is at the dermatology department to get his rash
examined.
 Put the conversation in order (writing )

7 Patient: I think so.

1 Patient: Excuse me, nurse? This is the cardiology department, isn´t
it?
8 Nurse: Take the elevator down to the basement level. Cardiology is
to the right.

2 Nurse: Well, usually it is. But the hospital is under construction right
now, so some departments are in different places.

4 Nurse: It´s in the basement now. Across from radiology and

pathology.
3
Patient: Oh, so where can I find cardiology?

5 Patient: Oh, good I don´t want to miss my appointment with my

cardiologist
6
Nurse: Do you need directions to get there?
 DIALOGUE

LISTENING, COMPREHENSION
& WRITING
Using our words

8-11
 Select the best definition
1-cardiology'
___ the study, treatment
and care of old people.
___ A specialty concerned with
the study and treatment of
disorders of the nervious system.
___ the study and treatment of
heart disorders
2-university hospital'
___ a part of a hospital where
outpatients come for diagnosis and
treatment.
___ a place where drugs and
medicines are prepared and sold.
___ an institution which combines
the services of a hospital with the
education of medical students and
medical research
3-'palliative care'
___ a specialty concerned
with the study and treatment
of disorders of the nervous
system.
___ the field of medicine
concerned with the study,
treatment of prevention of
cancer.
___ medical care which does
not provide a cure for a
disease, but reduces its
severity or slows its progress.
4-'neonatal'
___ the set of organs
that allows a person to
breathe and exchange oxygen
and carbon dioxide
throughout the body.
___ related to the treatment
and prevention of mental
illnesses.
___ related to the period after
birth, especially the first 4
weeks after birth
5-outpatient'
___ a place for
pregnant women or women
who have just given birth.
___ a person who does not
stay in the hospital but comes
to a clinic or surgery for a
treatment.
___ a person who stays in the
hospital for the time of
treatment.
6-inpatient'
___ a person who does
not stay in the hospital but
comes to a clinic or surgery
for a treatment.
___ a place for pregnant
women or women who have
just given birth.
___ a person who stays in the
hospital for the time of
treatment
7-'gynecology'
___ the branch of medicine in
which doctors study and treat
medical conditions which
affect women and their
reproductive organs.
___ a specialty concerned with
the study and treatment of
disorders of the nervous
system.
-8 'anesthetic'
___ medical care
which does not provide a cure
for a disease, but reduces its
severity or slows its progress.
___ a substance which causes
lack of awareness or feeling,
thus permitting surgery or
other painful procedures
9-'surgery'
___ a kind of treatment in which a
doctor cuts into somebody’s body
in order to remove or repair the
damaged or diseased organs.
___ The branch of medicine in
which doctors study and treat
medical
conditions which affect women
and their reproductive organs.
___ a substance which causes lack
of awareness or feeling, thus
permitting surgery or other
painful procedures
10-’geriatrics'
___ a specialty concerned
with the study and treatment of
disorders of the nervous system.
___The study, treatment and care
of old people.
___ medical care which does not
provide a cure for a disease, but
reduces its severity or slows its
progress.
11.- psychiatric
___ related to the period
after birth, especially the
first 4 weeks after birth.
___ related to the treatment
and prevention of mental
illnesses.
___ the set of organs that
allows a person to breathe
and exchange oxygen.
12- ward
___ a large hospital
room with beds for patients to
stay.
____ a part of a hospital
where outpatients come for
diagnosis and treatment.
___ a ward where
patients who are seriously ill
are closely monitored.
13- clinic
___ a part of a hospital where
outpatients come for diagnosis
and treatment.
___ an institution which
combines the services of a
hospital with the education of
medical students and medical
research.
___ a ward where patients who
are seriously ill are closely
monitored
14-ICU' or 'intensive care
unit ‘
___ a place where drugs and
medicines are prepared and
sold.
___ an institution which
combines the services of a
hospital with the education of
medical students and medical
research.
___ a ward where patients
who are seriously ill are
closely monitored.
15- maternity Ward 16- pharmacy.

___ a person who stays in the ___ a large hospital room with
hospital for the time of beds for patients to stay.
treatment.
___ a part of a hospital where
___ a person who does not stay outpatients come for diagnosis
in the hospital but comes to a and treatment.
clinic or surgery for a treatment.
___ a place where drugs and
___ a place for pregnant women medicines are prepared and sold.
or women who have just given
birth.
 Homework

• Thermometer • Appointment

• Ward • Chemist

• Prescription • symptoms

• Operation • Stethoscope

• examine • Treatment

• Pulse
• waiting room
• temperature
• Receptionist
 The hospital is a
part of an
organization,
medical and social
services, whose
mission is to provide
complete medical
care, as curative as
preventive.
Bones

Muscles
Organs.
.
Kidneys
Lungs

Heart
Liver Brain
Skin
Pathology Orthopedics Podiatry Dentistry Dermatology

ICU Obstetrics Cardiology Pediatrics

Radiology Pharmacy Surgery Emergency