Oxford International Study Centre
English for Health Care Professionals
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Availability
Accommodation Homestay / Residence / Hotel
Price Range £225.00 per week - £960.00 per week
Price Includes tuition
Beginners Not for beginners
Class Size 6 maximum
Course Length 1 weeks - 50 weeks
Town / City & Region Oxford , Central England
Tuition Style Group
Tuition Hours Per Week 22.5
Ages 16 - 99
Course Type Medicine
Other Information
In general students take 20 group lessons in General English and 5 private lessons in Medical English in the afternoons. Tailor made programmes are also available.
Topics covered
• General medical
• Specific medical (depending on the group)
• Patient communication skills
• Strategies to facilitate understanding patients
Medical English
• common medical abbreviations
• medical related verbs
• Slang, colloquialisms and idiomatic language
• Medical terminology
• Vocabulary used by patients when describing their symptoms
Speaking
• Clarity, pronunciation and intonation
Reading
• for gist: discussing general medical texts from newspapers and magazines
• for detail: case histories
• patient information leaflets
Listening and Communicating
• language and strategies
• making and receiving telephone calls
• language used when examining a patient
• exploring the language needed for initiating, building the relationship and gathering information and cross-cultural awareness
Activities and Visits
• mock interviews about medical issues
• mock consultations with patients
• medical videos and TV medical dramas….analysing issues
• discussions on topical health related issue
• mock Diagnosis and Treatment presentation and discussion
• visits to local health care centres and hospitals
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