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In general students take 20 group lessons in General English and 5 private lessons in Medical English in the afternoons. Tailor made programmes are also available.

Topics covered

• General medical
• Specific medical (depending on the group)

• Patient communication skills
• Strategies to facilitate understanding patients

 Medical English
• common medical abbreviations
• medical related verbs

• Slang, colloquialisms and idiomatic language
• Medical terminology
• Vocabulary used by patients when describing their symptoms

Speaking

• Clarity, pronunciation and intonation

Reading

• for gist: discussing general medical texts from newspapers and magazines
• for detail: case histories
• patient information leaflets

Listening and Communicating

• language and strategies
• making and receiving telephone calls
• language used when examining a patient
• exploring the  language needed for initiating, building the relationship and gathering information and cross-cultural awareness

Activities and Visits

• mock interviews about medical issues
• mock consultations with patients
• medical videos and TV medical dramas….analysing issues
• discussions on topical health related issue
• mock Diagnosis and Treatment presentation and discussion

• visits to local health care centres  and hospitals