Course Topics include:

The course covers a variety of relevant topics, including patient admissions, activities of daily living, vital areas of care, looking after elderly patients, and working with mental health issues. The course is designed for care professionals and students with an Upper-Intermediate and Advanced (B2-C1) level of English. It is easy to use, enjoyable and, above all, practical.

Introducing yourself	Pressure area care
Talking about the body	Falls and injuries
Patient admissions	Elderly patients
Taking observations	Infection control
Eating and drinking	Talking about pain
Toileting	Mental Health
Mobility	Hospital charts

Taking the course also improves vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation and conversational skills. Participants learn to speak confidently and accurately, and learn to understand better what others say to them.

Course Length	32 Weeks course with 3 hours per day clearly divided into sections. Each section focuses on a vital area of practice, giving learners the tools to communicate effectively at work.
Course Level	The course is set at an Upper-Intermediate and Advanced level (B2-C1 in the Common European Framework). At this level, a learner can understand and communicate in In English language in familiar situations, such as travel, work and family.
Inputs	During the course, learners listen to conversations, read medical texts and hospital charts, watch animated videos, look at work-related photographs and images, and study vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation focus points.
Exercises	Learners take a wide range of exercises to help learn the language they need. The exercises concentrate on scenarios using English at work.
Progress Assessment	At the end of every unit, there is a progress assessment so learners can see what they have learnt.
Course Content	Content comprises of all relevant and practical topics. It includes patient admission, Eating and drinking, Toileting a patient, Mobility, Falls and Injuries amongst others.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll have:

▶ Apply language skills to a range of healthcare contexts and situations. For example: using adjectives to describe symptoms, using vocabulary related to problems/solutions and causes/effectsInterpret different genres typical of healthcare, including instructions, notes, reflective journals, registration forms

▶ Explore new vocabulary and terminology relating to healthcare

▶ Identify suitable communication modes for different professional situations, for example when giving instructions to patients

▶ Reflect on your learning, and practice writing a reflective journal. Apply language skills to evaluate your experiences

▶ Collect and record medical information by reading and listening for specific information

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