Back to Menu ↩ Share This Post Are you preparing for the OET listening exam? Watch this video for a quick guide to Listening B and some ideas on how to approach the test. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnRy2S6B09s Get the latest tips and strategies from Specialist Language Courses by subscribing to our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW Download the […]
Back to Menu ↩ Share This Post Do you find OET listening part C difficult? Check out this video for a quick guide to Listening C and tips on how to prepare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L65V8Tfy6ps Get the latest tips and strategies from Specialist Language Courses by subscribing to our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW Download the handout from […]
The following data shows the confirmed results received from candidates who sat OET in January, February and March 2020 following a period of training given by SLC.
Back to Menu ↩ The following data shows the confirmed results received from candidates who sat OET in January, February and March 2020 following a period of training given by SLC. Download the case study Are you recruiting overseas-qualified healthcare professionals and need OET preparation for your candidates as part of the process? Then, you […]
Back to Menu ↩ Share This Post Do you have problems knowing what to write in the OET exam? Check out this video for a guide to the different types of letters in the OET exam and the different readers you might be asked to write to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dt6KBfFV2o Get the latest tips and strategies from […]
Back to Menu ↩ Share This Post Need help expressing the purpose in OET writing? Watch this video for tips on how to identify the purpose of a letter and how to express it in your letter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VNnUK15V00 Get the latest tips and strategies from Specialist Language Courses by subscribing to our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE […]
We’ve analysed the results we have received from overseas nurses and doctors sitting OET during 2020 following a period of training from SLC.
Back to Menu ↩ Share This Post Do you struggle when writing to another healthcare professional in OET writing? Check out this video where we show you what to consider when writing to another healthcare professional and why certain information is relevant or irrelevant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmgYgxgNkFE Get the latest tips and strategies from Specialist Language Courses […]
The NMBI announced that it would immediately apply amendments to its IELTS and OET English language requirements for international nurses and midwives.
We’re pleased to see the contribution of overseas healthcare professionals recognised by the UK government in its decision to extend visas for a year
Back to Menu ↩ Share This Post Need help understanding the OET writing criteria? This video explains what the criteria means and what the examiners are looking for. It also gives tips on how you can use it in your self study and mistakes to avoid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYRjpYA2OCY Get the latest tips and strategies from Specialist […]
Back to Menu ↩ Share This Post Finding the OET writing difficult? Watch this video where SLC’s senior teacher, Jo Langford shows us how to expand the case notes and write effectively in the OET writing exam. This video explains how to expand the case notes into full sentences and different structures you might use […]
SLC’s online Medical English and OET Preparation courses come with detailed Teacher Guides. You will find all the answers, audio transcripts,and more!
We’re delighted that one of SLC’s expert teachers, Sian Deeble, has been asked to give a webinar for Eaquals on how to teach young learners using Zoom.
The regulatory bodies for different healthcare professions set different scores, though all are at least an upper-intermediate or above.
With more and more people starting to teach online, here are a few handy tips to help you survive.
Thinking about using zoom for teaching online? Here are 5 key features to help you get the most out of your online classroom.
Do you work at a school or university looking to use Zoom at this time? SLC can help make sure teachers get the most out of the platform and its features!
Bethan Edwards, SLC’s Academic Director, is giving a webinar on Friday 20th March at 10am GMT to help Eaquals schools affected by Covid-19 teach online.
We teach English to healthcare professionals and students who in many cases are now on the front line of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
GPs on SLC’s Simulated Surgery preparation courses have always had strong results and we’ve had a great start to 2020. In January, 8 doctors took the test following tailored individual courses from SLC and 7 passed!
If you’re planning to teach your students online in the wake of Covid-19, get in touch. We can set you up with online classrooms and provide your students with high quality digital materials.
Huge congratulations to the top 15 contestants in the second round of the individual competition of the Third International English Language Olympiad for Medical and Pharmaceutical Students.
It’s an OET-tastic February! Check out the latest #OET results for doctors and nurses from #SLC.
Back to Menu ↩ English for refugee healthcare professionals We work in partnership with RefuAid to support doctors and nurses. We: Give free access to all online medical English courses Give free access to all online OET and IELTS test preparation courses Give free places on our online open group OET preparation for nurses programmes […]
Back to Menu ↩ Share This Post This lesson plan analyses an article on a new cystic fibrosis drug and teaches associated vocabulary. B2-C1 level Teacher Notes Medical English Materials What do you know about CF? For more information about CF – go to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust website The term cystic fibrosis comes from: cystic: describing a […]
Back to Menu ↩ Share This Post The IELTS Writing paper is the most difficult of the four papers for the majority of candidates taking the Academic version of the test. Here are some essential tips to remember when you take the test. TASK 1 Decide what type of graph or table you have in […]
Back to Menu ↩ SLC’s unique online courses for medical students and professionals are used by educational institutions and individuals around the world. Here we share the seven principles we incorporate to ensure learners are engaged, motivated and learning! – Grab the learner’s attention – Get them doing things – Small is beautiful – Clarity […]
Back to Menu ↩ Find out how the Language and Culture Unit at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Medical University in Bahrain use SLC’s English for Care and English for Nurses courses in blended learning programmes for Year 1 and Year 2 nursing degree students. The case study includes why the LCU chose […]
Back to Menu ↩ When the Nursing and Midwifery Council recognised OET, the international English for Healthcare test, in the UK, Cambridge Boxhill Language Assessment, owners of OET, commissioned SLC to train a group of nurses to achieve the NMC grades set. 8 nurses – some in the UK, others in India and the Philippines […]
Share This Post The IELTS Academic test was originally designed for students who wish to study in English speaking universities at either degree or postgraduate level. It is now also required by the GMC and NMC to demonstrate that overseas-trained doctors and nurses have sufficient English skills to practise safely and effectively in the UK. […]
Back to Menu ↩ SLC’s materials and courses are designed to be used by teachers with their students. Digital coursebooks Like a textbook, the courses have a clear structure that can be be taught sequentially or modularly. Unlike a textbook, they are packed with video, audio, recording activities and lots of hands-on activities that enable […]
Back to Menu ↩ Based at the University of Sussex, SLC is the UK’s leading provider of English language training to the UK healthcare sector. SLC trains hundreds of nurses every year to pass the OET and IELTS tests so they can register in the UK, Ireland, Australia and elsewhere. What sets SLC apart ✓ […]
Back to Menu ↩ By focusing on Medical English only, SLC has developed unparalleled expertise in materials development, course design, and teaching medical professionals in many different countries and settings. ✓ Unique portfolio of online Medical English courses used by hospitals, medical universities, healthcare recruitment companies and individuals around the world. ✓ Unique portfolio of […]
Share This Post SLC is the UK’s leading provider of English language and communication services to the global healthcare community. We publish specialist online courses. We train around the world in award-winning online classrooms. Download the presentation to find out what we do and why we do it. Download the presentation Subscribe to our newsletter […]
Share This Post Today’s global healthcare workforce is multi-national and multi-lingual. English is the lingua franca, and non-English speaking healthcare professionals, from consultants to carers, need to get their Medical English up to speed in order to deliver the safe and effective care demanded of them. Medical conversations are varied and important – with colleagues, […]
Back to Menu ↩ Share This Post My latest reading is a chapter in ‘The Handbook of English for Specific Purposes’, titled ‘English for Nursing’ and written by Susan Bosher. The Handbook is a great resource for all things ESP. In the article, Bosher cites three studies, one Canadian (Epp and Lewis 2008), one American […]
Back to Menu ↩ English for Employability We work in partnership with Maximpact to develop the English of refugees with little or no English so they can integrate into local communities and enter the workforce. We: Give at-cost tailored online lessons to closed groups of refugees, from absolute beginner to elementary to intermediate level Develop bespoke English […]
Back to Menu ↩ We analysed the results of over 100 nurses taught on NHS-funded programmes across a variety of Trusts and Health Boards between August 2018 and July 2019. Find out how they did and what lessons were learnt. Download the case study Are you recruiting overseas-qualified healthcare professionals and need OET preparation for […]
Share This Post These tips are designed to help you understand the format of the test, the way it’s assessed and the skills you need to use to succeed. The OET Writing Sub-test In the writing sub-test, you have 45 minutes to plan and write a letter from the perspective of someone in your profession. […]
Share This Post The speaking section of OET takes around 20 minutes and consists of two role plays. These are specific to the profession of the candidate, so the situations will be similar to those you might encounter at work. The interlocutor (the person playing the role of the patient, relative or carer) doesn’t assess […]
Share This Post The OET reading sub-test has three parts, testing a range of reading skills by using texts that you might encounter in different workplace situations. Here are some quick tips to help you get to know the test and some suggestions on how to tackle each part. The OET Reading Sub-test You have […]
Share This Post This guide explains the format of the OET Listening test and suggests techniques to help you to deal with the particular challenges of each part. The OET Listening Sub-test The listening sub-test consists of 42 questions in three parts. You are tested on a range of listening and language skills, including prediction, […]
OET is still the only healthcare-specific English language test that can help you fulfil your dream of working in the UK. Here are five reasons why…
Over the Christmas period, SLC will be open as normal until 20th December 2019.
the NMC governing council has responded positively to the request made by the NMC to amend the required score for the Writing paper of the OET to a C+.
The change will come into effect from 28 January 2020. OET results achieved during the previous 2 years that meet the new requirements will be accepted.
See the dates to take the English test specific for your profession.
SLC is delighted to report that the NMC governing council has responded positively to the request to amend the required score for the OET Writing paper.
Bethan Edwards and Jo Langford gave an intensive 3-day training programme to over thirty lecturers at Sechenov Medical University.
Form for the 3rd International English Language Olympiad for Medical and Pharmaceutical Students
Men’s health is in crisis. Men are dying on average 6 years earlier than women, and for largely preventable reasons.
Practice your reading skills in a clinical context with this free lesson from Virginia Allum, world-leading expert and Head of Medical English at SLC.
We’re delighted that ‘OET Preparation Nursing’, co-written by Virginia Allum, SLC’s Head of Medical English, has just won the prestigious ‘Content of the Year in Higher and Further Education’ award at the India Didactics Association.
The conference was well-attended and we met a truly global cross-section of Medical English teachers from across from across the world.
SLC was delighted to have been invited to present at the national OSCE Facilitator conference held in Newport on Sept 10th 2019.
On September 9th, the UK government announced that the English language requirements stipulated for overseas healthcare professionals by their respective regulatory bodies would be accepted for visa purposes.
We’re hugely looking forward to attending the 4th international English for Healthcare Conference on October 3rd and 4th.
We’re delighted to announce that Diana Izu is SLC’s new Programme Manager. Diana has a long and successful career in the language teaching industry.
Communication is key, and languages are important precisely for this reason, to share our thoughts and feelings with others. To know a second language is to know more about yourself and others.
SLC achieves overall 77% pass rate for OET Nursing after 2 attempts
Get this right, and your rapport with your patient will be a powerful factor in building a successful therapeutic partnership.
It’s true, learning English can be easy even if you speak a Romance Language. Here are some essential tips to help you learn English quickly & effectively.
While all the other parts of OET are changing at least a little in the last September update, the writing sub-test is staying the same.
We’re delighted to announce that SLC’s new online course, Medical Terminology, has been accredited by the CPD Standards Office.
Find here all the tips and techniques you need to achieve a high score in IELTS writing tasks 1 and 2.
Virginia Allum, SLC’s Head of Medical English, co-authored the ‘OET Preparation, Nursing’ coursebook, just published by Cambridge University Press (CUP).
Did you know that from August 31st the OET Writing Criteria are changing? Don’t worry, the test itself is not changing but the way that it is graded is.
We’re delighted to be working with a number of NHS Trusts and healthcare recruitment specialists to provide OET and IELTS preparation services for their nurses and doctors.
This 30-hour course teaches learners how to understand hundreds of medical terms covering parts of the body, symptoms, conditions, treatments & procedures.
This week is Diabetes Week and Specialist Language Courses is helping to raise awareness. What do you know about diabetes?
In the US, the first Tuesday of every June has been designated as National Healthcare Recruiter Recognition Day. A massive high five to all our partners.
This will be of great interest to any healthcare employer & recruitment company whose nurses & doctors haven’t achieved the required score in their writing
The Dept for Health and Social Care says it’s increasing training places. Is this enough? What do you think?
Designing effective online courses is clearly not easy. It requires a very different approach to designing courses that are designed to be printed.
RefuAid approached SLC to see if we could help and we jumped at the opportunity. We already work with groups of Syrian refugees with lower language levels and we clearly see how lives can be transformed once learners have the language skills and the confidence to enter the UK workforce.
LC is delighted to announce that Online English for Medical Academic Purposes has been accredited by the CPD Standards Office.
Back to Menu ↩ In May 2018, Specialist Language Courses (SLC) was commissioned by Stoke Mandeville Hospital, part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, to prepare a group of overseas-trained nurses to take the Occupational English Test (OET). This was so they could achieve the score stipulated by the NMC to demonstrate they had the appropriate […]
SLC attend Doctors as Humanist symposium Are doctors humanists? Should the humanities be integrated into medical education?
RefuAid and SLC partner to teach refugee doctors to pass OET and IELTS so they can work in the UK. Lessons take place in SLC’s online classrooms.
Coming soon, SLC’s new online Medical Terminology course. Perfect complement to SLC’s Medical English courses for doctors, nurses and care.
SLC welcomes new NHS and international medical recruitment clients. giving OET and IELTS preparation courses to nurses and doctors to work in the UK
Chris Moore, SLC Managing Director, elected to Board of Trustees at Eaquals, the world’s leading association for quality assurance in language education
Specialist Language Courses (SLC) judge at Medical English Olympiad. Chris Moore, Bethan Edwards and Jo Langford join international panel to assess the presentations given by students from medical schools across Russia and Egypt at Sechenov Medical University in Moscow.
SLC is delighted to welcome Sara Harden to the team. Sara is a highly experienced editor of online English (ELT) language courses and learning materials. Sara will be working on SLC’s online Medical English, OET and IELTS preparation courses.
SLC’s Academic team gave a hugely successful teacher training programme to thirty lecturers at Sechenov Medical University, Russia’s leading medical school. They taught the English language and teaching techniques needed for the lecturers to work effectively with international students.
SLC’s Managing Director, Chris Moore, was delighted to be invited to speak at the AISLi 40th Anniversary AGM and conference in Arezzo, Italy. He presented a session on strategy for language teaching (ELT) organisations and a workshop on how schools can use the Business Canvas Model.
Back to Menu ↩ What’s the difference between IELTS writing 6.5 and 7.0? At the beginning of 2016, the NMC introduced a new regulation which required all nurses from outside the UK to achieve a score of 7.0 or above (out of 9.0) in all four areas of the Academic IELTS exam – reading, listening, […]
SLC speaking at AISLi 40th anniversary AGM and conference. Chris Moore, SLC’s Managing Director is giving a talk on strategy and a workshop on the Business Canvas Model, drawing on SLC’s experience of becoming the UK’s leading provider of English language training to the global healthcare sector.
English for medical academic purposes, incorporating academic writing, reading and listening for healthcare students and lecturers in medicine, nursing, pharmacy and medical English, as well as doctors, nurses and researchers. Includes new modules on writing abstracts and research in English.
Blog post from Specialist Language Courses Titled ‘What’s the difference between IELTS writing for grade 6.5 and 7.0?’. This explores the IELTS exams grading of reading, listening, writing and speaking for international nurses who want to work in healthcare.
NMC, NMC Changes, IELTS Writing Score, IELTS Band 6.5
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Specialist Language Courses (SLC) train Medical, Pharmacy and Linguistics teachers at Sechenov Medical University in Moscow, Russia’s leading medical school, to give effective lectures, seminars and tutorials in English.
SLC, Specialist Language Courses, build partnership with Sechenov, Russia’s leading Medical University, to include Anglo-Russian Medical English courses – English for Doctors and Medicine, English for Pharmacy – and teacher training in English for lecturers English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI).
SLC talking on using online Medical English courses, creating OET course materials, and developing and teaching online OET courses at the 2018 international Medical English conference.
OET Speaking Test, OET Speaking Course, SLC and NHS collaboration, Cambridge Addenbrookes
OET for Doctors, OET Medicine, IELTS for Doctors – SLC working with significantly more international doctors.
OET Forum, OET Trial Results, OET for Nurses
