Many of our clients are medical specialists from leading hospitals and clinics from Europe and around the world, including doctors, nurses and other health practitioners.

Typical Course Content
The course will typically develop language appropriate to
the following areas:

• Communicating effectively with patients
• Communicating effectively with professional colleagues
• Discussing treatments, presenting opinions and assessments
• Developing a winning CV and triumph in English at interviews
• Learning how to fit into a professional team in the UK
• Making medical applications during the course
• Spending time at a UK doctor’s clinic (at additional cost)
• Taking and understanding a patient history, asking about symptoms, recording information, communicating information accurately
• Examining a patient, rephrasing, explaining, prompting
• Investigations
• Using a medical dictionary
• Interpreting a diagnosis, explaining and discussing a diagnosis
• Understanding medical diagrams and documents
• Using general medical reference books and a pharmacology reference
• Examining case histories
• Studying the language as it relates to medical treatment: physiotherapy, surgical treatment, giving and understanding instructions
• Considering language functions appropriate to certain medical scenarios
• Learning common medical abbreviations
• Examining the structure and organisation of the British National Health Service, including a discussion about the British hospital system
• Discussing the future of medicine.