Medical English for Doctors in Practice

We strive to anticipate your questions to make your instruction both Modern and Practical.

• How do patients talk about their symptoms in lay terminology?
• How are symptoms referred to and pronounced correctly in medical terminology?

In this specially tailored course, participants will build and practice the skills needed to successfully and confidently meet the challenges of an internationalizing healthcare sector.Critical topics are explained using a range of examples from everyday clinical practice.

Incorporate the medical challenges you face as practitioners,into your lessons with us:Participants are offered the opportunity to present their own clinical cases and underlying pathology, and then through discussion and reflection, to develop a comprehensive patient plan and approach.

Precision Pedagogy for Refined English: In this way, specific expressions (lay and medical terminology), knowledge gaps as well as pronunciation and grammar can be precisely identified and improved.

Course Syllabus Section (Patient-Doctor Communication)

• Communication strategies
• Initial discussion, small talk and history taking
• Typical expressions used by English-speaking patients when presenting to the doctor
• Signs and symptoms
• Medical abbreviations
• Communicating information clearly and sensitively to patients
• Dealing with emotions - (Naming, Understanding, Respecting, Supporting, Exploring) Working with interpreters