LOGICAL MEDICAL ENGLISH
For healthcare professionals
LOGICAL LANGUAGE. SIMPLER
A SYSTEM TO IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH FROM LOW TO UPPER INTERMEDIATE
LOGICAL MEDICAL ENGLISH (B1B2)
EACH MODULE A MINI COURSE
Module 1: Medical English Essentials
You will practice
- discussing background, and job roles and responsibilities
- talking about plans, goals and ambitions
- talking about patient-centred care
- linking similar and different ideas together in sentences
Module 2: The Patient Interview I
You will practice
- greeting your patient appropriately
- recording accurate details about family and social background
- asking about general health issues and new problems
- understanding timelines
Module 3: The Patient Interview II
You will practice how to
- elicit details about symptoms or diagnoses
- record details accurately while you listen
- ask politely to do a physical examination
- give instructions during physical examinations
- explain to the patient your “working diagnosis”
Module 4: Discussing Tests, Diagnosis and Prognosis
You will practice
- explaining provisional and differential diagnoses
- describing test purpose and procedure
- discussing treatments available and their effects
- informing, reassuring and warning patients about outcomes
Module 5: In- and Out-patient Follow Up, Phone calls
You will practice
- natural speech and common idioms in describing feelings
- compare, contrast and summarise changes in patient condition, if any
- use new vocabulary and grammar forms to give important explanations and instructions
- use shorter grammar forms to give information and instructions
Module 6: Use of English in Healthcare
You will practice
- change tone and intonation based on kind of exchange
- instruct, reassure, suggest, caution, encourage and advise
- restate and rephrase information
- confirm understanding
