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May 2024 | Events
For anyone involved in designing, writing, or teaching English for healthcare courses, there is a wealth of content to be inspired by. At the end of the conference, you will have gained insights, knowledge and plenty of ideas to take home.
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April 2024 | Webinar
The session will provide valuable insights on teaching soft skills, caring and compassion, in English for healthcare. Loredana will talk about the importance of teaching soft skills and her experience of teaching academic skills.
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April 2024 | Events
Capsule works with medical schools offering a cutting-edge learning platform that brings clinical cases to life. It helps students gain confidence in their clinical reasoning skills by making diagnostic and therapeutic decisions and prepares them for the challenges of real-world clinical practice by using the quizzes based on realistic clinical scenarios.
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April 2024 | Events
The English for Healthcare conference is a fantastic opportunity to get up-to-date with the all the great things happening in the global world of healthcare English. We’re delighted to have 3 eminent keynote speakers from the world of medical language and communication: Professor John Skelton, Dr. Zsofia Demjen, and Dr. Emma Brooks.
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April 2024 | Webinar
Non-EEA doctors wanting to recertify in the UK have to pass both, OET and PLAB exam, Part 2. The session explains differences between these two exams. It gives an overview of the PLAB for OET trainers and medical English teachers involved in OSCE-style role play work.
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February 2024 | Webinar
Dr. Shelley Staples, a corpus linguist and healthcare communication researcher, discusses findings from key corpus linguistics studies in the medical context and how these findings could be applied to classroom instruction.
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January 2024 | Discussion
Virginia and Emma discussed issues and challenges when working with people with learning disabilities and Emma´s multiple roles she is currently involved in. Finally, Emma talked about the areas of Dietetics that she hopes may be focused on in the future.
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December 2023 | Webinar
The webinar will discuss the needs of people with learning difficulties which lead to poor health outcomes, including dysphagia, diabetes, obesity, and ageing-related issue. It will deal with communication challenges when working with such people.
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December 2023 | Article
The “Education First English Proficiency Index 2023” (EF EPI) report compared English language skills of adults around the world. It presents the key findings, describes the methodology used, and provides a list of ideas for teachers and schools on how they can improve the English proficiency of their learners.
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