Specialist Language Courses

Medical English materials and courses for universities and schools

The latest in online medical English resources and materials will transform your teaching programmes and accelerate your students’ learning

Trusted by universities, schools and healthcare training organisations around the world.

SLC’s English for healthcare courses are used by medical schools, nursing colleges, public health bodies, English language schools and exam boards to support teachers and their students.

The materials are all accredited. They can be accessed seamlessly across multiple devices – PC, tablet, phone. 

Clients are based across Europe, in China, India, the Gulf and across Asia.

Working with SLC is easy

Step 1

Fill in the form and we will contact you as soon as possible.

Step 2

We talk to you about your needs, show you the courses and teaching platform, and make an agreement.

Step 3

We create a personalised platform for your institution with everything you need to know about how it works.

Step 4

You give access to your teachers so they can familiarise themselves with the content and platform features, and then the students so they can start learning!

Our courses for your students

English for Doctors

Advanced Communication Skills

English for Nurses

Getting the Essentials Right

English for Care

Delivering Outstanding Care

English for Pharmacy

An Introduction

English for Radiography

Online English Language Course

English for Pandemics

Online English Language Course

Medical Terminology Course

Online English Language Course

English for Medical Academic Purposes

Online English Language Course

Essential Grammar for Healthcare

Online English Language Course

Advanced Grammar for Healthcare

Online English Language Course

Online General English

Online English Language Course

Online Clinical Communication

Online English Language Course

Professional development courses

FAQs

About the courses

Teachers and institutions use the courses in multiple ways – as digital coursebooks, as supplementary learning, and as part of a flipped classroom approach. We can advise you how to integrate the materials to meet your objectives.

The courses focus on both profession-specific and cross-sector content. They include courses for medicine, nursing, care, radiography and pharmacy, as well as terminology, grammar and academic writing and research design and poublication.


They include animated videos, lots of audio, interactive recording tasks, hospital charts and documents, academic articles and abstracts, a wide variety of practice tasks and quizzes, and lots of communicative work.

Yes. As courses are digital, the units can be rearranged, edited, added to or removed to match your curriculum. Talk to us about what you need.

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All SLC’s courses have been inspected, accredited and certificated by the CPD Standards Office (CPDSO) in the UK.

CPDSO quality assures Continuing Professional Development (CPD) across a very wide range of sectors. With accredited providers in over 40 countries, CPDSO works with hundreds of training providers, educational organisations and employers.

SLC is also an NOCN-approved international training centre. English for Doctors and English for Nurses are endorsed, certificated and quality assured by NOCN.

NOCN Group is a leading UK Awarding Organisation, established in 1987 and registered by Ofqual, the UK government body responsible for standards and quality in qualifications. NOCN Group operates in over 20 different countries, with over 2,000 approved training centres delivering their qualifications and certificates to over 250,000 learners a year.

You can view student work in detail, down to viewing the specific pages they have completed, the writing they submit, and the recordings they make. You can pull all kinds of reports, manage your students as individuals and groups, send them assignments, leave them feedback, and even schedule online meetings via the integrated web-conferencing facility.

Your platform is customised for your institution – logos, colours, links, text, url. It is uniquely yours. Your students study on your platform so they are in one place and easy to manage.


The platform is powered by industry leaders Avallain AG who also work with Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and National Geographic Learning among others.

The courses are written by both industry-leading authors and experienced English language professionals. They combine a strong understanding of the healthcare sector with a rigorous approach to language acquisition. They are academically strong, based on extensive research and regularly reviewed to keep up to date.

It’s up to you! Access is customisable. Some institutions give access to their students for just a month, others for a year. 

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