Medical English - Key Clinical Skills for ESOL Learners

In this self-paced course, you will learn key English vocabulary and functional phrases for common interactions between health professionals and patients. This course is aimed at anyone who needs to communicate with patients and / or healthcare colleagues in an English-speaking setting, and provides relevant topics and language for those working towards taking the OET (Occupational English Test). It focuses on typical situations healthcare professionals need to understand and react to, such as:asking about and understanding painusing the Calgary-Cambridge medical consultation frameworktaking vital signssummarising patient cases giving bad news using the SPIKES protocolLessons contain useful and frequent vocabulary, put this vocabulary into context through audio recordings and support memory through transcripts, extra practice tasks and role-plays.

For many healthcare professionals, colloquial English is as much of a challenge as technical medical language, so the course includes language which is natural, presents both more formal and informal ways to say things and teaches complete phrases as well as individual words. When it comes to learning, for most people, the more thinking and participating that takes place, the more likely the language is to stay in the memory. That's why this course is designed to engage you as an active participant, not just a passive listener.