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This Paper conducts a linguistic analysis of the notes written by EFL Nassiriya students at college of Medicine. It aims at identifying the linguistic features of the English used in medical writing through answering the following question: -What are the morpho-syntactic features of medical Notes? Note-taking is the process that English foreign learners perform when they attend lectures in English. It involves certain important skills, such as good command of listening, extracting the major points and the gist of utterances, using abbreviations, contractions, shorthand keywords, etc. Lecture is the predominant and most common method of teaching in higher education throughout the world. Thus note taking imposes itself as a necessary method for utilizing the subject matter of the lecture. The study is based on the following hypotheses: 1) the notes written by EFL Nassiriyah students of the college of Medicine are characterized by certain morpho-syntactic features to the extent that make them as a special variety. 2) the passive verbs in either medical notes do not represent a linguistic feature compared with the active ones. In order to achieve the aims of the study, two types of notes written by twenty five students are examined: Surgery and Ortho. These notes are taken from 5th year students. To the best knowledge of the researcher, no such study has been carried out in the field of the language of medical issues in Iraq, therefore the present study is an attempt to fill this gap. (Published Abstract)