The Center for Confident American English Communication

If you are a nurse or a medical professional who is working on improving your English pronunciation, you’ll be interested in this article from the University of Nevada. As I’m sure you know, there has been a shortage of nurses (and other medical personnel) across the United States, especially in more remote places such as

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Cincinnati Children’s Hospital has developed an on site accent reduction program for medical staff born outside the US. The most common issue for participants is that they’re imposing the characteristics of their native language – such as the sound system and stress patterns – onto English. Since the classes are held at the hospital, employees don’t have

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Here is a fascinating statistic! There are currently 9,857 international medical school graduates from 83 countries practicing in the state of Texas. The need for accent reduction is critical as these eager new physicians try to communicate with their patients. The article that I’ve linked to below describes an accent reduction course that is customized

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