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Online English for GP's Course
Helping healthcare professionals improve their medical English.

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CPD accredited course

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Course Overview

Communicating accurately and effectively is critical to the safety, care and wellbeing of patients. 

 

This 100-hour, online course teaches the English that enables GP’s to deliver outstanding levels of practice and care, build strong relationships with patients and colleague, and lead and participate in successful healthcare teams.

 

The course is designed for GP’s and medical students with an intermediate to advanced level of English.

Online Course Content

Consulting Patients

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  • Greeting a patient

  • Clerking a patient

  • Non-verbal communication and therapeutic listening

  • The patient admission form

  • Writing a patient file note

  • The body: anterior

  • The body: posterior

Interviewing a Patient

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  • The language used in healthcare

  • Conducting patient interviews

  • The Calgary–Cambridge Observation Guide

  • Asking different types of questions

  • Cardiovascular conditions

Taking Observations

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  • Blood pressure and pulse

  • Temperature

  • Discussing Neurological changes

  • The body: the arms

  • The body: the hands

  • The body: skin, nails, hair

Discussing a Diagnosis

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  • Discussing a diagnoses

  • The body: the abdomen

  • The body: the intestines

  • Discussing IBS with a patient

  • Infectious diseases and conditions

  • The body: the ears

Administration of medications

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  • Administering medications

  • Dose and frequency of medication

  • Allergies and adverse drug reactions

  • Talking about side effects and precautions

  • Analgesia and side effects

  • Patient controlled analgesia

  • Medication and the elderly

  • The body: the eyes

  • Putting in eye ointment

Explaining Treatment

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  • Diabetes management

  • Constipation

  • Managing urinary incontinence

  • Stoma therapy

  • The kidneys, fluid loss and dehydration

Wound Management

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  • Wounds and burns

  • Wound infections

  • Pressure ulcers 1

  • Pressure ulcers 2

  • Wheelchair-bound patients

  • The body: lower back and buttocks

Examining a Patient

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  • Patient confidentiality

  • Putting a patient at ease

  • The female reproductive system

  • Doing an internal examination

  • Protecting vulnerable patients

  • The body: the senses

  • The body: the mouth

  • Writing letters to a family doctor or GP

Explaining Tests

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  • Types of blood tests

  • Taking a blood sample

  • Radiological tests

  • Testing for tuberculosis

  • Cervical smear tests

  • Taking a urine specimen

  • Diabetes tests

  • Pathology forms

Talking about Pain

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  • Talking about pain

  • Talking about pain severity

  • Using pain scales

  • Talking about pain location

  • Describing acute and chronic pain

  • Discussing chronic back pain

Falls and Injuries

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  • Discussing injuries

  • The body: bones and ligaments

  • The body: muscles and tendons

  • Managing a fractured clavicle 1

  • Managing a fractured clavicle 2

  • The body: shoulders

  • Care of a patient with a plaster cast

  • The body: feet and ankles

  • The body: hips, thighs and pelvis, discussing arthritis

Breathing difficulties

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  • Breathing equipment

  • The body: the chest

  • Talking about respiration

  • Talking about breathing difficulties

  • Upper respiratory tract infections

  • Managing asthma

  • Breathing in asthma

  • Suggesting life style changes

Oncology and End-of-Life Care

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  • Types of cancers

  • Oncology and chemotherapy

  • Radiotherapy

  • The breast and breast cancer

  • Cancer of the cervix

  • Lung cancer

  • Writing to the GP after treatment for lung cancer

  • Discussing palliative care

  • End-of-life care

Private Medical English Tutoring

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London Medical Exchange are offering an exclusive 1-2-1 online tutoring with a number of our experienced tutors.

 

Please contact us for more details.

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