Live online course English for Health Professionals (CPD accredited): a mix of Medical English and Conversational English classes for carers, nurses, doctors, pharmacists and paramedics
If you are a nurse, doctor, carer or any other kind of Health Professional working in the UK, you are exposed to local idioms, colloquialisms and often confusing medical jargon that could make your working day difficult. Improved English language skills can undoubtedly advance your career and allow you become more confident. Our intensive “English for Health Professionals” course is specifically designed around health professionals job requirements and will address the question of their effective and competent communication with clients, patients and colleagues.
The importance of effective communication in the field of health and care cannot be over emphasised. True success in this area is dependent on inter-personal linguistic skills as well as medical knowledge. Our live online English course is specifically designed to improve your communicative ability in English within the health and care field. You will study English in situations based on general medical practice and procedures, covering medical terminology, practice in specialist vocabulary, and also a review of basic grammatical structures. Topic work includes an overview of the British National Health Service.
– Available to individual learners or groups
– Taught online by a fully qualified native British teacher
– Course duration: Express Course (20 hours), Full Course (30 hours) or Tailor-Made Course – choose any topics from the list below (minimum 20 hours)
– Every teaching hour consists of 50 minutes learning session
– Homework assigned and marked by the teacher
– You will receive all teaching materials prior to your lessons (these could be texts or video/audio materials, comprehension questions, vocabulary, idioms and phrasal verbs etc). Lesson materials based on Oxford English for Medicine course books and custom made resources
– Entry requirements: Elementary to Lower Intermediate and above. Free placement test is available here
– End-of-Course Evaluation Test; Course Completion Certificate
– Our online teachers are fully qualified and have years of experience working in British schools and abroad. All our teachers are also qualified EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers
– Online platform: Virtual English Classroom or via Skype. Participants can join a class by logging in either as a group or individually from their own computers. No software required. We provide full technical support.
– You must have a reliable internet connection
– The course concentrates on all aspects of the language with extra focus on Speaking and Listening
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Course fees:
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Invite your colleagues and learn in a small group!
Participants can join a class by logging in either all together as a group, or individually from their own computers.
OFFER OF THE MONTH: Book a Full Course and receive a copy of the “Living in the UK” e-book.
Registration fee: £25.00 per person
Course Title Minimum Level of English Teaching hours Number of people in a group Cost, per person Express Course Lower Intermediate 20 20
4 8
£115.00 £65.00
Full Course Lower Intermediate 30 30
4 8
£165.00 £95.00
Tailor-Made Course (choose any topics from the list)
Lower Intermediate minimum 20 hrs
4 £6.00 per hour Tailor-Made Course (choose any topics from the list)
Lower Intermediate minimum 20 hrs
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One-to-one tuition on Skype with a fully qualified British teacher:
Course Title Teaching hours Cost, per person Express Course 20 £315.00 Full course 30 465.00 Tailor-Made Course
(choose any topics from the list)
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This course is designed to help carers, nurses, doctors, pharmacists, paramedics, receptionists and other health specialists, enhance their communication skills in English.
The course will equip Health Professionals with specialist English language knowledge of the healthcare environment, as well as the Healthcare system in the UK, to enable them to work more confidently in their job. By the end of the course you will have:
– learnt and revised essential medical and everyday healthcare terminology
– focused on practical language (with the help of dialogues, videos and role plays)
– learnt patient or service user communication skills and develop strategies to facilitate understanding
– learnt using authentic materials – hospital charts, assessment tools and forms
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Tailor-made courses can be arranged – please contact us to discuss your requirements.
A typical Full Course (30 teaching hours) covers:
Medical English: Communication activities as well as vocabulary on various subjects including Medical Ethics; Assessing Symptoms and Signs; Taking a history; Explaining and observing a procedure; Explaining Complications; Acknowledging Visual Cues; Reassuring the patient; Make polite requests; Accident and Emergency; Pain Management; Communicating with Patients; Common Abbreviations; How to Discuss Sensitive matters
Conversation English Lessons: Using Small Talk, Speaking smoothly and fluently, Making Arrangements, Ways to Behave, Responding Sympathetically, Telephone Phrases and Expressions, Showing Interest and Surprise, Social English, Expressing Feelings, Daily Routines, Describing Food, Describing People’s Appearance, Dealing with Family and Friends, Making Plans, Pronunciation Activities
Cultural Skills Lessons: Various Speaking and Listening activities on different topics – Cultural Do’s and Don’ts, Differences between countries, Food and Diet, Signs and Notices, Traditions, Holidays and Special Occasions, Marriage and Related Issues, Family and Related Issues, The Monarchy, Religion
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Pick any lessons from the list and make your own tailor-made course!
Medical English: (other topics are available)
Lesson 1: Caring For the Elderly; Health and Illnesses
Lesson 2: Assessing a Patient; Nutrition
Lesson 3: Degrees of Pain; Body Functions
Lesson 4: Diagnosis and Treatments; Alternative Treatments
Lesson 5: Medical Treatment; Medication
Lesson 6: Examinations; Mental Health
Lesson 7: General Symptoms; Assessing Symptoms and Signs
Lesson 8: Health Professionals; Monitoring the patients
Lesson 9: Hygiene; Infections
Lesson 10: Taking a history; Different types of Therapy
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English for Doctors: (other topics are available)
Lesson 24: Working in General Practice (Research into General Practice; A GP’s job; A case history; A referral letter; Social Factors in General Practice)
Lesson 25: Instructions and Procedures (Preparing for your first Ward Round; Case Presentation; Explaining and observing a procedure; Explaining Complications; Acknowledging Visual Cues; Reassuring the patient; Make polite requests)
Lesson 26: Communication (Understanding why patients may appear vague; Asking and Responding to open questions; Acknowledging verbal cues and using appropriate responses; Considering what the patient thinks; Dealing with a defensive patient; Minimal Mental Health Evaluation)
Lesson 27: Parents and Young Children (Baby’s check; Reassuring an anxious parent; Sharing experiences; Non-technical language; Signs and symptoms)
Lesson 28: Terminal illness and Dying (Care in the Community; Recognising and dealing with patient’s emotions; Breaking bad news and informing a relative about death; Reactions to bad news)
Lesson 29: Diversity at Work (Asking about culture; Spiritual needs in palliative care)
Lesson 30: Working in a Team (Team members roles and attributes; ‘It’s not my job…’; Giving and receiving feedback)
Lesson 31: Obstetrics (Talking about pregnancy/giving birth; Using Small Talk; Speaking smoothly and fluently; Understanding lay language in Obstetrics; Using Modal Verbs for negotiation)
Lesson 32: Psychiatry (Understanding basic definitions in Psychiatry; Talking about Affect and Mood; Understanding and using lay terms; Using Phrasal verbs; Understanding and pronouncing prepositions with verbs)
Lesson 33: Geriatrics (Understanding Signs and Symptoms; Supporting advice with purpose and reason; Talking about rehabilitation)
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Cultural Skills: (other topics are available)
Lesson 44: Traditions; Holidays; Occasions; Superstitions
Lesson 45: Leisure; In the Pub; Media; Shopping and Consumerism
Lesson 46: Living in the UK Do’s and Don’t’s; Religions; National Stereotypes;Immigration
Lesson 47: Education; Employment; Law; Healthcare; Marriage
Lesson 48: Countries; Regions; Geography; The Monarchy
Lesson 49: Attitudes in Britain; Food in Britain; What’s Politically incorrect
Lesson 50: What’s Taboo; Taboo Conversations; Telephone Conversations: Do’s and Don’ts
Lesson 51: Food and Drink in General; In Town (Shops and Buildings); Money; Work Duties, Conditions and Pay
Lesson 52: Around the home (Rooms and Furniture); Shops and different types of Shopping; Clothes
Lesson 53: Around the home (Everyday objects); Describing people; Different types of Animals and insects
English for Nurses: (other topics are available)
Lesson 11: The Hospital and Nursing Staff
Lesson 12: Medical Ethics
Lesson 13: Assessing a patient and Medical instruments
Lesson 14: Child Health
Lesson 15: Accident and Emergency
Lesson 16: Pain Management
Lesson 17: Nursing Care Plan
Lesson 18: Communicating with Patients; Common Abbreviations
Lesson 19: How to Discuss Sensitive matters
Lesson 20: Research Studies
Lesson 21: How to be communicate with patients
Lesson 22: How to communicate with Team Members
Lesson 23: Dealing with Medication
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English for Managers: (other topics are available)
Lesson 34: How To: ask for something, delegate, show how to do something
Lesson 35: How To: praise, criticise, compromise
Lesson 36: How To: update on progress, justify change, feedback on a project
Lesson 37: How To: run a meeting, speak to a group, present an idea
Lesson 38: How To: structure a talk, agree and disagree, defend an idea
Lesson 39: Problems at work: Health and Safety, Bullying, Harassment and Discrimination
Lesson 40: Recruitment and Selection
Lesson 41: Code of Ethics, Ethical Standards, Ethical Investment
Lesson 42: Leadership and Management styles
Lesson 43: Stress and Stress Management
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General English: (other topics are available)
Lesson 54: Revision of all Tenses; Different types of Questions; Social Expressions
Lesson 55: Present Perfect; Use of For/Since; Adverbs/Word Pairs; How To Give Short Answers; Countables/Uncountables; Second Conditional
Lesson 56: Polite Requests; Combinations with the verb Go; Verb Patterns ; Future Forms; Hot verbs
Lesson 57: Modals; Phrasal Verbs; Passive; Past Perfect and Past Continuous; Free Time Activities; Making Small Talk
Lesson 58: Conditionals; Words with similar meanings; Relative Clauses; Dealing with Money; Describing Everyday objects; Writing emails; Making Arrangements
Lesson 59: Reported Speech; Ways to describe numbers; Ways of using the verb Make; Describing People and Things; Ways to behave
Lesson 60: Perfect Tenses in Past, Present and Future; Verb Forms in the narrative; Passive 2 (Having something done); Continuous Aspects in other Tenses; Mishaps; Responding Sympathetically
Lesson 61: Time phrases often used in the past; Ways of using the verb Feel; Linking ideas in narrative; Ways to use the verb Have and Have Got; Auxiliary verbs; Talking about people around you; How to write an informal email
Lesson 62: Verbs Take/Put and more phrasal verbs; Future tense forms; Antonyms; How to be Polite; Telephone phrases and expressions
Lesson 63: Phrasal Verbs with ‘Make’ and ‘Do’; Making Negatives; Compound Nouns and Adjectives; Asking for more information; Showing Interest and Surprise; Social Expressions; the music of English
Medical English for Carers:
(other topics are available)
Lesson 64: Caring For the Elderly; Health and Illnesses
Lesson 65: Assessing a Patient; Nutrition
Lesson 66: Degrees of Pain; Body Functions
Lesson 67: Diagnosis and Treatments; Alternative Treatments
Lesson 68: Medical Treatment; Medication
Lesson 69: Examinations; Mental Health
Lesson 70: General Symptoms; Assessing Symptoms and Signs
Lesson 71: Health Professionals; Monitoring the patients
Lesson 72: Hygiene; Infections
Lesson 73: Taking a history; Different types of Therapy
Also available:
Role-Play classes
Initial Doctor-Patient Assessment: Building the relationship (Use of Open and Closed Questions; Picking up Cues; Using appropriate non-verbal behaviour; Developing Rapport)
Physical Examinations (Explaining and Obtaining Agreement; Treating Patients with dignity before and after the examination)
Diagnosis (Being Sympathetic and dealing with sensitive issues; Breaking bad news; Communicating with Relatives; Giving clear treatment and follow-up instructions)
Communicating Dignity and Respect Non-Verbally (Elements of Non-Verbal Communication; Listening-Positive and Negative acknowledgement; Empathy; Personal Space and Privacy)
Communicating Dignity and Respect Verbally (Using Humour appropriately; Stereotyping and Labelling)
