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Class overview
This course aims at preparing trained and trainee doctors who need English as a Second Language in their jobs or intend to get a job abroad. It presents English from a wide variety of medical fields and situations, develops their doctor-patient communication skills, and provide them with background in major medical care and concepts.
course Requirements
course Requirements
English level: B1 (Pre-Intermediate) or higher
Target audience: Doctors; undergraduate medical students
Interest: A genuine interest in improving your communication skills in English with both patients and healthcare colleagues
Technical needs: Internet access and headphones (recommended)
Improve your English Communication Skills with colleagues and patients!
Improve your English Communication Skills with colleagues and patients!
About THE Teacher
About THE Teacher
Fernanda | English Teacher, highly motivated to help students succeed in achieving their ESP goals.
Class Material and Resources
Class Material and Resources
Virtual classes on Zoom
Worksheets (digital copies)
Video-watching guides
Online Practise Exercises
Google Classroom
Content of the course
Content of the course
This course develops the vocabulary, language, and skills that doctors need to communicate effectively and accurately with patients and colleagues in clinical settings across the U.S. healthcare system.
1. Presenting the Chief complaints; Understanding culture, interpreting body language;
2. Working in Primary Care; Asking Focused Questions During the Medical History
3. Instructions and procedures; Preparation for carrying out a procedure;
4. Explaining and reassuring; Research into complaints;
5. Dealing with medication; Prescribing medications in hospital settings, documenting safety incidents;
6. Lifestyle; Sympathy and empathy, research in medicine;
7. Parents and young children; Reassurance, well-baby visit;
8. Communication; Understanding patients, asking and responding to open questions, information web search;
9. Working in psychiatry; Asking about self-harm, describing patients;
10. Terminal illness and dying; Care in the community, recognizing and responding to patients' emotions, informing a relative about death;
11. Working in a team; Politeness in different cultures, appropriate responses, asking a senior colleague for help;
12. Diversity at work; Asking about culture, spiritual needs in palliative care, name awareness, avoiding and responding to tactless comments
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