Medical Professionals
In the medical work environment clear and precise communication is crucial for efficient and high quality care for patients.
Besides a highly proficient general language knowledge, mastering the specific medical terminology and confidence in expression and comprehension are essential for a successful career as a doctor or a nurse. If you have any questions or want to learn more about how we can support your team’s language development, please contact us. We are looking forward to working with you and your team.
Our medical language courses are the ideal way to prepare you for your professional future in the healthcare industry in Germany. Our courses are taught by specifically trained teachers with an official license provided by telc and with the use of accredited books and learning material. We focus on intensive vocabulary and grammatical work, targeted training in speaking, understanding, reading and writing and real-life communication. Topics in our classes include:
Basics of technical medical language
Inter- and transcultural communication
Anamnesis and documentation
Conversations with patients, relatives and other medical professionals
Delivering negative news
Writing letters and reports
Further skills taught in this class:
Oral and Written Skills:
Through a wide variety of exercises we focus on improving your verbal communication skills and learning to communicate clearly and concisely with patients, relatives and other medical professionals. At the same time, specialized writing exercises mimicking real life situations from the medical field will teach you to write texts needed for effectively working in today’s medical environment.
Intensive Vocabulary Work:
Our certified teachers emphasize on expanding your medical vocabulary to ensure that you will be able to understand and to use the terminology and terms of your specific medical field. That way, you will be enabled to communicate with other medical professionals effectively.
Listening and Reading Comprehension:
We use targeted listening and reading comprehensions from the medical field to prepare you for working with complex medical texts and oral instructions. You will be able to extract relevant information and respond appropriately to the needs of patients and your team members and to deal effectively with the wide range of information in the everyday situations of the medical field.
Learning exam-relevant grammatical structures:
A large part of our course is focused on teaching and consolidating exam-relevant grammar structures to ensure that you develop a solid understanding of the correct use of German grammar in the daily and medical context. You will be able to express yourself more accurately and correctly and prepare you for important language exams.
Writing Exercises:
Our practice-oriented writing exercises will encourage you to formulate complex medical concepts clearly in written language. This will enable you to write sound medical reports that are both understandable and technically precise. A strong writing ability is indispensable in todays medical working field.
Pronunciation Training:
We offer additional pronunciation training to develop a clearer and more precise articulation. You will refine your pronunciation through targeted feedback and special exercises lead by a professional speech therapist.
