本教材定位为医学院校学科通用学术英语。每个单元包括主题信息检索与展示、三篇相关主题的阅读文章、课文配套综合训练，以及学术英语技巧学习与分项训练。全书选材来自于权威的科普杂志、医学官方网站和医学学术期刊，兼顾了科普性、学术性、人文性、趣味性和前瞻性。本教材另配有练习答案和PPT教学课件，读者可登录“清华社英语在线”（www.tsinghuaelt.com）进行下载。
本教材适用于医学类高等院校学生、医务工作者以及医学英语爱好者。

Unit 1 Pandemic
Part A Information Searching and Delivering
Part B Text Understanding
Passage 1 Pandemics—What Everyone Needs to Know
Passage 2 A Universal Flu Vaccine Is Vital
Passage 3 Wearing Face Masks in the Community During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Altruism and Solidarity
Part C Integrated Exercises
Part D Academic Skills
Academic Listening Skill: Recognizing Main Ideas and Supporting Details
Academic Reading Skill: Medical Terminology
Academic Writing Skill: Topic Sentence and SupportingDetails
Unit 2 Medicine
Part A Information Searching and Delivering
Part B Text Understanding
Passage 1 Medicine
Passage 2 What Are the Benefits and Advantages of Telemedicine?
Passage 3 Interpreting the Language of Traditional Medicine
Part C Integrated Exercises
Part D Academic Skills
Academic Listening Skill: Recognizing Signal Words
Academic Reading Skill: Skimming and Scanning
Academic Writing Skill: How to Write Definitions
Unit 3 Nursing
Part A Information Searching and Delivering
Part B Text Understanding
Passage 1 Men in Nursing: The Challenges in Caregiving
Passage 2 2020: Unleashing the Full Potential of Nursing
Passage 3 If Nurses Nurse, Why Don't Doctors Doctor?
Part C Integrated Exercises
Part D Academic Skills
Academic Listening Skill: Finding the Sequence of Events in a Narrative
Academic Reading Skill: Signal Words
Academic Writing Skill: Comparison and Contrast
Unit 4 Mental Health
Part A Information Searching and Delivering
Part B Text Understanding
Passage 1 Mental Health and Mental Disorders
Passage 2 No Physical Health Without Mental Health: Lessons Unlearned?
Passage 3 Mental Health Care for University Students: A Way Forward?
Part C Integrated Exercises
Part D Academic Skills
Academic Listening Skill: Making Predictions
Academic Reading Skill: Topic Sentences
Academic Writing Skill: Problem and Solution
Unit 5 Food and Nutrient
Part A Information Searching and Delivering
Part B Text Understanding
Passage 1 Diet, Nutrition and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (Excerpt)
Passage 2 Fact or Fiction? Feed a Cold, Starve a Fever-The Answer Is Simmering in a Bowl of Chicken Soup
Passage 3 Does Lactose Cause Bloating?
Part C Integrated Exercises
Part D Academic Skills
Academic Listening Skill: Making Inferences
Academic Reading Skill: Inference Making
Academic Writing Skill: Cause and Effect
Unit 6 Drug
Part A Information Searching and Delivering
Part B Text Understanding
Passage 1 Medicine's Journey Through the Body
Passage 2 When Legal Drugs Harm and Illegal Drugs Help
Passage 3 Dealing with Drug Pricing: Not Just One Solution
Part C Integrated Exercises
Part D Academic Skills
Academic Listening Skill: Identifying Numbers
Academic Reading Skill: Facts and Opinions
Academic Writing Skill: Examples and Statistics
Unit 7 Cancer
Part A Information Searching and Delivering
Part B Text Understanding
Passage 1 Building a More Resilient Cancer Healthcare System
Passage 2 Disability in Cancer Care: Time for Change?
Passage 3 Time to Focus on Value-Based Metrics for Cancer Care
Part C Integrated Exercises
Part D Academic Skills
Academic Listening Skill: Recognizing Cause and Effect Relationship
Academic Reading Skill: Arguments and Evidences
Academic Writing Skill: Quoting and Paraphrasing
Unit 8 Medical Ethics
Part A Information Searching and Delivering
Part B Text Understanding
Passage 1 Introduction to Medical Ethics (Excerpt)
Passage 2 Palliative Care—A Shifting Paradigm
Passage 3 A Genetically Augmented Future
Part C Integrated Exercises
Part D Academic Skills
Academic Listening Skill: Summarizing
Academic Reading Skill: Tables and Fig