Medical English for Health Professionals – Intermediate (B1-B1+)

Learn useful language and communication strategies for medical professionals.

1. Introduction
Practise useful language you need when dealing with patients.
  • Vocabulary: People at a hospital
  • Pronunciation: Stress in long words
  • Medical quiz
  • Video: Dealing with patients
  • Stages of a physical examination
  • Vocabulary: Parts of the body
  • Test 1
2. Taking a medical history
Practise asking and answering questions when taking a medical history.
  • Vocabulary: Medical history
  • Video: Taking a medical history
  • Stages of a consultation
  • Introductions
  • Checking patient information
  • Responding to the patient
  • Word order of questions
  • Video: Asking about past medical history
  • Describing time and frequency
  • Speaking Tutorial 1 (Take a medical history.)
  • Test 2
3. A physical examination
Review vocabulary and practise giving instructions during a physical examination.
  • Review questions
  • Vocabulary review: Parts of the body
  • Video: A physical examination
  • Giving a patient instructions
  • Vocabulary: Action verbs
  • Vocabulary: Examination equipment
  • Pronunciation: Word stress
  • Writing Tutorial 1 (Write about how you carry out a physical examination.)
  • Test 3
4. Diagnosing
Learn vocabulary of symptoms and causes, and practise giving a diagnosis.
  • Video: Diagnosing a patient
  • Ending a consultation
  • Vocabulary: Common symptoms
  • Patients’ descriptions of symptoms
  • Describing causes
  • Pronunciation: Vowel sounds
  • Vocabulary: Word building
  • Diagnostic tests
  • Writing Tutorial 2 (Write about diagnosing a patient.)
  • Test 4
5. Prescribing treatment and giving therapeutic information
Practise prescribing treatment and giving therapeutic information.
  • Video: Prescribing treatment
  • Different functions
  • Giving therapeutic information
  • Saying something is important
  • So that, in case and if
  • Specifying treatment
  • Speaking Tutorial 2 (Prescribe treatment and give therapeutic information.)
  • Test 5
6. Writing a patient report
Practise reading and writing an HPI (history of present illness) report.
  • Common medical abbreviations
  • Reading an HPI
  • Vocabulary: Useful words in an HPI
  • Verb forms: Present and past simple, present perfect and past passive
  • Linking information and ideas
  • Test 6
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