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Understanding Medical English: Pharmacy and Medications
Rating: 3.9 out of 5(26 ratings)
7,843 students

Understanding Medical English: Pharmacy and Medications

Gain confidence communicating with English-speaking patients
Created byAlex Evans, PharmD, MBA
Last updated 7/2021
English
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What you'll learn

  • Learn the basics of the US pharmacy system, including licensing, reading an insurance card, and key identifiers to know.
  • Learn to counsel patients on a wide variety of medical devices.
  • Improve reading comprehension.
  • Learn about a lot of free resources to help learn English in the medical setting.
  • Learn from a native-English speaking, US-licensed pharmacist!

Course content

7 sections • 35 lectures • 57m total length

  • Patient Counseling4:49

    Learn to counsel patients on medications by outlining the action, quantity, route, frequency, and duration, plus as needed use, the indication, side effects, and when to call a doctor.

  • Prescription Drug Insurance in the United States3:11

    Understand how prescription insurance works in the United States, from the pharmacy to the patient, with PBMs, employer and government funding, and programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Tricare.

  • Prescription Drug Insurance in the United States - Part 23:06

    Explore how pharmacies submit prescription claims to payers via the switch, using bin and PCN numbers to determine coverage and copays.

  • Pharmacist Licensing in the United States5:13

    Explain how to become a licensed pharmacist in the United States through state boards, covering hours, naplex, mpje, and fge for foreign graduates, plus toefl benchmarks.

  • Reading an Insurance Card5:25

    Learn how U.S. insurance cards show plan identifiers such as BIN, PCN, member ID, group, RSX group, and RX group, plus the issue date used to process prescription benefits.

  • The National Drug Code5:14

    Learn how the national drug code uniquely identifies every U.S. medication, with an 11-digit 5-4-2 pattern, used for product verification, bar code scanning, and recalls.

  • The National Provider Identifier (NPI)2:35

    Identify the national provider identifier (NPI) as a unique US health care provider and organization ID that never changes after application, and is used for billing and prescriber verification.

Requirements

  • Be interested in improving your English ability in the medical and/or pharmacy setting.

Description

This course will help medical professionals gain confidence in their medical English communication and reading skills, specifically with pharmacy and medications.

In this course, you will learn how to counsel patients in English on a wide variety of medication delivery devices, have the chance to hear about clinical topics, learn to pronounce some of the most common medications and medical conditions correctly, and learn the basics of the US pharmacy system. We will also go over the pharmacist licensing process in the United States.

To improve reading ability, there are a total of 5 reading comprehension exercises. These articles are all pharmacy industry articles, so you will gain exposure to vocabulary used in the pharmacy setting and better understand the articles you read.

I'll also provide you with multiple links where you can hear and read medical and pharmacy English for free, so you can keep practicing and get better and better!

Lastly, the pronunciation dictionary contains numerous downloadable audio recordings of pharmacy and medical words being pronounced, both slowly and at natural speed.

This course is great for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and other healthcare professionals who are non-native English speakers and are interested in improving their ability to communicate with English-speaking patients. It will also help healthcare professionals interested in becoming licensed and working in an English-speaking country.


Intro Video Music: BenSound

Who this course is for:

  • Medical professionals who are non-native speakers of English

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