The Center for Confident American English Communication

I have been looking for medical English pronunciation activities on the web. Unfortunately I have not found many sites with audio files. However, I did find a page with lots of medical English dialogs that can be used for pronunciation practice. Each dialog is followed by a list of vocabulary and a quiz. Medical English

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Everyone knows that going to the doctor can be stressful and it’s even more so when you and your doctor don’t speak the same language! Alta ESL has a nice lesson that you can use to read and listen to phrases that will help you communciate with the doctor in this lesson called American Pronunciation-A

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Project Care is a website for high-intermediate to advanced English language learners who want to learn medical English. The site provides lessons that help English learners improve their communication with medical personnel and patients. The website provides audio and video for listening practice, vocabulary development and more. I have recommended this resource to several of

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There has been a shortage of nurses across the United States, especially in states such as Nevada. To help remedy the shortage, the University of Nevada Las Vegas has developed a new program called Speak for Success to help nurses recruited from overseas to communicate more effectively and efficiently in American English. “Since nursing requires constant communication with doctors, co-workers, patients and families, communication-focused

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There are currently 9,857 international medical school graduates from 83 countries practicing in the state of Texas and the need for accent reduction is critical as these new physicians try to communicate with their patients. This article describes an accent reduction course that is customized to the needs of these doctors. But it’s not cheap.

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