Medical Voices

About Medical Voices

Medical Voices is a weekly medical English podcast that teaches the language of healthcare through realistic clinical role-play — built for internationally trained nurses and doctors preparing for OET, IELTS, and professional registration in English-speaking countries. Each episode breaks down 10 essential clinical vocabulary terms, then puts them to work in a full doctor-patient or nurse-patient dialogue drawn from real UK clinical settings — GP consultations, hospital wards, pharmacy visits, specialist referrals, and more. Free PDF transcripts with the full vocabulary table and language notes are available for every episode. We call our listeners the Med Nomads — every healthcare worker who has ever crossed a border with their stethoscope and their dreams. We exist for the nurse rebuilding her life in a new country. The IMG fighting imposter syndrome in a foreign hospital. The student who mastered medicine in one language only to practise in another. We believe healthcare workers belong anywhere in the world, in any language. We make the language of medicine learnable, dignified, and free — so no Med Nomad ever feels like a stranger in the place they came to heal. New episodes every Tuesday. Hosted by Nadia and Tom. 📄 Free video episodes and PDF transcripts: https://medicalvoices.health (https://medicalvoices.health) 🇫🇷 French-language version: "Voix Médicales Podcast" on YouTube -- ⚕ This content is for language learning purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Medical content may occasionally contain inaccuracies.

Publisher

Medical Voices

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Jul 2026

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

20 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Capacity & Informed Consent — Medical English Ep. 20

   An elderly patient is due a routine MRI, and his daughter has one urgent question: on a day his capacity is fluctuating, who actually gets to decide? Dr. Rao walks the family through informed consent, capacity, and best-interests decision-making — in plain, reassuring language. This is one of the most legally sensitive conversations in medicine, and one of the most exam-relevant: capacity and consent appear in every NMC OSCE blueprint and across the doctor profession of OET Speaking. Vocabula...

2. 

   29 Sept 2026

   Falls Assessment: The Language of a Geriatric GP Follow-Up for OET Speaking & IELTS

   Mr. Fenwick had a single fall in his kitchen three weeks ago — and he's keen to downplay it so as not to worry his daughter. Dr. Chaudhry isn't about to let that happen. Nadia and Tom cover ten essential falls-assessment terms: fall, loss of balance, dizziness/lightheadedness, postural hypotension, mobility aid, home environment review, polypharmacy, bone density, activities of daily living (ADLs), and falls clinic. Each term is defined and demonstrated in a realistic GP follow-up — taking a ...

3. 

   22 Sept 2026

   Chest Pain in the ED: The Language of an Emergency Triage Assessment for OET Speaking & NMC OSCE

   Mr. Sullivan walks into the Emergency Department with chest pain that's never felt like this before — and Staff Nurse Pillai has only minutes to take a structured history, get him monitored, and start ruling out the dangerous causes. Nadia and Tom cover ten essential chest-pain triage terms: chest pain, onset, radiation, associated symptoms, shortness of breath, ECG, troponin, cardiac monitor, rule out, and pathway. Each term is defined and demonstrated in a realistic ED triage assessment — t...

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