Teaching English Medical Terminology Using the UMLS Metathesaurus and World Wide Web
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Background. The lingua franca of medicine, and most scientific fields, is English. The world’s most widely cited medical journals are published in English. As such, clinicians and researchers whose native language is not English must learn it to avail themselves to the large body of medical knowledge published in English. The goal of this project is to use a combination of content (a non-English translation of MeSH and the UMLS Metathesaurus) and a platform (the World Wide Web) to develop a widely-accessible approach to teaching English medical terminology.
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