Explore every episode of the podcast OET Speaking practice

This clinical roleplay explores a scenario where a child develops severe constipation after taking oxycodone for tonsillectomy pain. The doctor explains the side effects of oxycodone, recommends stool softeners and alternative pain relief like paracetamol, and advises tapering opioid use. The benefits of ice-cream and salt water gargles are discussed. The session also highlights key communication skills, including empathy, balancing expertise with parental concerns, and clear information delivery.

This scenario showcases a GP guiding a parent through a diagnosis of bacterial tonsillitis with poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis in a child. The doctor explains test results, the link between throat infection and kidney involvement, and the urgent need for antibiotics and specialist referral. Key communication strategies include empathy, clear explanation, responding to parental concerns about antibiotics, and ensuring understanding of the treatment plan.

This scenario features a doctor-parent consultation after drug equipment is found in a teen's room. The doctor gathers details about the boy's lifestyle, offers empathy, explains marijuana's effects, suggests a psychologist referral, and encourages the parent to involve the teen in care. The interaction demonstrates clinical communication skills like empathy, effective questioning, clear information delivery, and patient-centered planning.

Dr. Sarah Jenkins hosts a roleplay simulating a clinic scenario for OET speaking practice. She guides an elderly patient, Mr. Thompson, through severe flank pain and suspected kidney stones, addressing his fear of hospitals, explaining the diagnosis and treatment, handling a penicillin allergy, and negotiating ambulance admission. The episode highlights clinical communication skills: empathy, structure, information giving, and achieving agreement.

Dr. Sarah Jenkins hosts a podcast OET speaking practice, roleplaying a GP consultation with Mr. Benson, a patient reluctant to start hypertension medication. The conversation focuses on building rapport, gathering information, addressing concerns about medication, explaining the risks of untreated high blood pressure, and negotiating a trial period for compliance.

Dr. Sarah Jenkins hosts an OET speaking practice featuring a clinic scenario where a doctor persuades a skeptical patient, Robin, to receive the Boostrix vaccine for a newborn's safety. The conversation highlights empathy, patient perspective, clear information giving, and structured communication as per OET guidelines.

This episode features a roleplay for consulting a retired academic worried about a family history of early-onset Alzheimer’s. The discussion covers exploring dementia symptoms, considering depression, recommending neuropsychological evaluation, and explaining the need for genetic counselling before testing. The episode highlights key OET communication skills such as empathy, information gathering, structuring the interview, and ensuring patient understanding.

Dr. Sarah Jenkins and guest Jordan perform an OET roleplay in the Emergency Department, simulating a consultation with a student worried about malaria after tropical travel. The episode covers clinical communication, symptom investigation, diagnostic explanation, patient reassurance, and effective persuasion for immediate blood tests. Listeners are encouraged to shadow, recap, and practice along with the conversation.

This podcast episode features a doctor-patient roleplay focused on managing tinnitus for a music journalist exposed to loud concerts. The doctor addresses symptom history, explains causes, reassures the patient, and emphasizes ear protection, offering a referral to an ENT specialist. The episode highlights key OET clinical communication skills: empathy, non-judgement, open questioning, patient involvement, and negotiating care plans.

This podcast episode features a doctor-patient roleplay set in a suburban clinic, focusing on a lawyer experiencing frequent heart palpitations. The doctor reassures the patient with normal ECG results, explains the impact of stress, caffeine, and diet, and offers practical advice for healthier eating. The episode also highlights key clinical communication skills: empathy, non-judgmental guidance, patient perspective, and clear information delivery.

This podcast episode features a doctor-patient roleplay focused on a bipolar disorder patient wishing to stop medication due to feeling better and concerns about stigma. The episode demonstrates empathetic communication, thorough safety checks, and clear explanations on the importance of continuing treatment. It also recaps key clinical communication skills such as relationship building, information gathering, and verifying patient understanding, offering a practical learning resource for OET speaking practice.

In this OET speaking practice podcast, Dr. Sarah and guest Mark enact a scenario where a patient experiences persistent stomach symptoms after a hiking trip. The doctor explores possible water contamination, explains contaminants, recommends diagnostic tests, and provides guidance on supportive treatment and hydration, while showing empathy and using effective clinical communication skills aligned with OET standards.

This episode features doctor-patient role play on the delayed healing of bone fractures due to the use of steroids. The patient, Lisa, her fibreglass cast was due to be removed this week, but recent X-rays reveal that the break is not yet healed. Furthermore, she has a medical history of asthma and has been taking corticosteroid-based medication for the past three months. Let's see how Sarah communicates with her on the explanation and future plan.

This episode features a doctor-patient role play on the use of aspirin in controlling blood pressure. Three months ago, the patient, David decided on his own to start taking one tablet of standard aspirin daily to keep his heart and blood healthy. While his blood pressure has been excellent, he has lately been feeling lethargic and irritable, and for the past month, he has been experiencing mild-to-moderate stomach pains. Let's see how Sarah persuaded the patient on a trial period of not using aspirin.

This episode features a doctor-patient roleplay about postherpetic neuralgia after shingles. The doctor explains the nerve pain's cause, recommends first-line treatments like paracetamol and capsaicin cream, discusses advanced options, rules out surgery, and offers non-drug approaches. The host reviews clinical communication strategies, including empathy, patient perspective, clear structure, and shared decision-making, based on the OET Speaking Guide.

This podcast episode addresses how doctors can handleanxious patients who have self-diagnosed using AI. In a simulated consultation, a doctor reassures a patient concerned about lymphoma, explains medical terms,outlines the need for blood tests, and conditions a specialist referral on results. Key communication strategies include validating fears, using evidence-based reassurance, explaining jargon with analogies, and setting clear expectations for specialist referrals.

This OET Speaking Practice podcast episode showcases adoctor-patient roleplay where the doctor addresses a resistant patient's obesity, family history of heart disease, and reluctance to change. The consultation covers strategies like validation, personalized persuasion, graded language, and negotiation to encourage lifestyle changes and referrals,illustrating effective communication for dealing with challenging patients.

This podcast episode offers a roleplay breakdown of a doctor-parent consultation about a boy growing rapidly, possibly due to precocious puberty or excess growth hormone. It covers reassuring parents, discussing genetic factors, explaining specialist referrals, and highlighting communication techniques like signposting and normalizing to build trust and clinical leadership during sensitive conversations.

This episode features a doctor-patient roleplay about a cricket player with right shoulder pain. The doctor explains bursitis, its causes (overuse, not acute injury), and the importance of rest despite the patient's reluctance. The doctor also describes bursae as fluid-filled sacs and emphasizes long-term management with physiotherapy and joint protection, persuading the patient to prioritize recovery for continued sports participation.

In this podcast episode, Sarah guides an elderly patient through recovery after uncomplicated diverticulitis. She reassures him that there was no perforation or serious complication, explains the chance of recurrence, emphasizes dietary changes over excessive laxative use, clarifies the role of antibiotics, and highlights warning signs that require urgent follow-up. The episode demonstrates compassionate communication and practical advice for patient care.

In this episode, a doctor consults a busy real estate agent who experienced two unexplained fainting spells. The discussion covers the need for urgent investigations—ECG, CT scan, blood tests—and seeing a neurologist for an EEG. Despite the patient's resistance due to work pressures, the doctor insists on no driving until a diagnosis, highlighting car insurance risks. The scenario demonstrates strategies for persuading resistant patients to prioritize health.

A doctor consults with a 76-year-old patient experiencing worsening right hip pain. Possible causes like osteoarthritis, bursitis, and tendinitis are discussed, with arthritis being most likely. Diagnosis includes a physical exam and X-ray. Treatment options range from weight loss, medication, and physiotherapy, with surgery as a last resort. The patient is reassured and a step-by-step plan is outlined, including follow-up after diagnostic tests.

A podcast roleplay simulates a doctor consulting a patient who stepped on a rusty nail while gardening. The doctor checks for tetanus symptoms, explains its seriousness, clarifies the need for booster shots every 10 years, and reassures the patient about gardening. Advice is given on proper footwear to prevent future injuries, and the patient agrees to a tetanus booster. The scenario aims to prepare medical professionals for OET speaking tests.

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the OET Speaking Practice Podcast. This podcast is designed to help healthcare professionals prepare for the OET Speaking sub-test, particularly the Medicine role play. Our goal is to help you understand what the task is asking, how to structure your response, and how a high-scoring conversation sounds in real time. In each episode, we’ll first set the scene by introducing a role-play scenario commonly seen in OET-style speaking practice. After that, you’ll hear a model conversation between a healthcare professional and a patient or carer.

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the OET Speaking Practice Podcast. This podcast is designed to help healthcare professionals prepare for the OET Speaking sub-test, particularly the Medicine role play. Our goal is to help you understand what the task is asking, how to structure your response, and how a high-scoring conversation sounds in real time. In each episode, we’ll first set the scene by introducing a role-play scenario commonly seen in OET-style speaking practice. After that, you’ll hear a model conversation between a healthcare professional and a patient or carer.

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the OET Speaking Practice Podcast. This podcast is designed to help healthcare professionals prepare for the OET Speaking sub-test, particularly the Medicine role play. Our goal is to help you understand what the task is asking, how to structure your response, and how a high-scoring conversation sounds in real time. In each episode, we’ll first set the scene by introducing a role-play scenario commonly seen in OET-style speaking practice. After that, you’ll hear a model conversation between a healthcare professional and a patient or carer.

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the OET Speaking Practice Podcast. This podcast is designed to help healthcare professionals prepare for the OET Speaking sub-test, particularly the Medicine role play. Our goal is to help you understand what the task is asking, how to structure your response, and how a high-scoring conversation sounds in real time. In each episode, we’ll first set the scene by introducing a role-play scenario commonly seen in OET-style speaking practice. After that, you’ll hear a model conversation between a healthcare professional and a patient or carer.

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the OET Speaking Practice Podcast. This podcast is designed to help healthcare professionals prepare for the OET Speaking sub-test, particularly the Medicine role play. Our goal is to help you understand what the task is asking, how to structure your response, and how a high-scoring conversation sounds in real time. In each episode, we’ll first set the scene by introducing a role-play scenario commonly seen in OET-style speaking practice. After that, you’ll hear a model conversation between a healthcare professional and a patient or carer.

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the OET Speaking Practice Podcast. This podcast is designed to help healthcare professionals prepare for the OET Speaking sub-test, particularly the Medicine role play. Our goal is to help you understand what the task is asking, how to structure your response, and how a high-scoring conversation sounds in real time. In each episode, we’ll first set the scene by introducing a role-play scenario commonly seen in OET-style speaking practice. After that, you’ll hear a model conversation between a healthcare professional and a patient or carer.

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the OET Speaking Practice Podcast. This podcast is designed to help healthcare professionals prepare for the OET Speaking sub-test, particularly the Medicine role play. Our goal is to help you understand what the task is asking, how to structure your response, and how a high-scoring conversation sounds in real time. In each episode, we’ll first set the scene by introducing a role-play scenario commonly seen in OET-style speaking practice. After that, you’ll hear a model conversation between a healthcare professional and a patient or carer.

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the OET Speaking Practice Podcast. This podcast is designed to help healthcare professionals prepare for the OET Speaking sub-test, particularly the Medicine role play. Our goal is to help you understand what the task is asking, how to structure your response, and how a high-scoring conversation sounds in real time. In each episode, we’ll first set the scene by introducing a role-play scenario commonly seen in OET-style speaking practice. After that, you’ll hear a model conversation between a healthcare professional and a patient or carer.

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the OET Speaking Practice Podcast. This podcast is designed to help healthcare professionals prepare for the OET Speaking sub-test, particularly the Medicine role play. Our goal is to help you understand what the task is asking, how to structure your response, and how a high-scoring conversation sounds in real time. In each episode, we’ll first set the scene by introducing a role-play scenario commonly seen in OET-style speaking practice. After that, you’ll hear a model conversation between a healthcare professional and a patient or carer.

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the OET Speaking Practice Podcast. This podcast is designed to help healthcare professionals prepare for the OET Speaking sub-test, particularly the Medicine role play. Our goal is to help you understand what the task is asking, how to structure your response, and how a high-scoring conversation sounds in real time. In each episode, we’ll first set the scene by introducing a role-play scenario commonly seen in OET-style speaking practice. After that, you’ll hear a model conversation between a healthcare professional and a patient or carer.