Medical English - Key Clinical Skills for ESOL Learners

In this session you will review and practise relevant questions for asking about pain, and vocabulary and phrases for describing onset, duration, quality and severity. By the end you will be more confident in assessing a patient's pain and will have listened to two recordings which contextualise the language and practise your ability to listen for detail.

In this lecture, you will examine the transcripts from the pain lecture and learn related vocabulary.

By the end of this session, you will have a clearer understanding of the stages of the Calgary-Cambridge model for medical consultations. You will have examples of patiently-friendly language to use for each of the stages and you will have listened to an example consultation.

In this session, in addition to reviewing the stages of a consultation, you will examine and practise open questions, closed questions and checking questions and become more confident in using them to interact with patients and get the information you need to make a diagnosis / treatment plan.

By the end of this session you will have studied the vocabulary and phrases used for checking a patient's vital signs and for talking about changes in vital sounds. You will practice listening to two different situations where a medical profession takes and then comments on a patient's vital signs.

By the end of this session, you will be familiar with the vocabulary and phrases needed to conduct an initial physical examination in English and have reviewed the basic medical equipment involved. You will have listened to an example of a physical examination.

Giving bad news is not a nice job, but such an important one. By the end of this section, you will be better able to give bad news in English, in an organised, empathetic and clear way. You will have learned about the SPIKES protocol and have example language from each stage of this structure to use.

In this session you will learn how to express key summarising information in English, particularly when conducting a patient handover to another member of a health professional team.