European doctors face GMC language check
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| | Mark
Local time: 23:00
Italian to English
| It’s rather hard to believe that this is a real issue | Nov 19, 2013 |
I mean, we’ve had foreign doctors coming to the UK for decades; how can this issue only have been addressed now? It would obviously be a serious problem if doctors’ language skills were inadequate.
I like the "moving to the UK from Europe" line…
| | | | liz askew 
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:00
Member (2007)
French to English
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| perhaps not a serious problem | Nov 24, 2013 |
However, this is an issue, and like a lot of issues it takes an age to be dealt with.
Patients need to understand what health professionals are saying to them, so any health professional coming to the UK needs to speak good, clear English. The same would be true for a health professional going to work in France from say the UK, their French would need to be of good quality and understandable to the French inhabitants.
As an interpreter, understanding what is being said by ... See more However, this is an issue, and like a lot of issues it takes an age to be dealt with.
Patients need to understand what health professionals are saying to them, so any health professional coming to the UK needs to speak good, clear English. The same would be true for a health professional going to work in France from say the UK, their French would need to be of good quality and understandable to the French inhabitants.
As an interpreter, understanding what is being said by anybody is of paramount importance. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 23:00
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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| And UK doctors? | Nov 24, 2013 |
liz askew wrote:
...so any health professional coming to the UK needs to speak good, clear English.
And health professionals who were born in the UK, don't they also need to speak good, clear English? Or would they be exempt from that requirement? Do all UK residents understand all accents from other parts of the UK?
| | | | Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:00
Member (2008)
Italian to English
Mark Dobson wrote:
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I like the "moving to the UK from Europe" line…
Since the UK is part of the European continent, and a full member of the European Union, I'm puzzled how anyone can "move to the UK from Europe".
[Edited at 2013-11-24 13:04 GMT]
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| Is it a mosquito or an insect? | Nov 24, 2013 |
Tom in London wrote: Puzzled Mark Dobson wrote:
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I like the "moving to the UK from Europe" line… Since the UK is part of the European continent, and a full member of the European Union, I'm puzzled how anyone can "move to the UK from Europe".
This reminds me of the old lady who ran the boarding house where I lived when I was a student in Mexico City. When telling the story of an old acquiantance she had in the past, she said, "I do not remember whether she lived in New York or in the United States".
| | | | liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:00
Member (2007)
French to English
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| And UK doctors | Nov 24, 2013 |
This is a red-herring as the subject of the article is health professionals coming from outside the United Kingdom.
If you want the English of people born or who are residents of the United Kingdom to be checked, you will need to mount your own campaign through the necessary channels.
| | | | | They always used to have to pass an exam | Nov 27, 2013 |
In the 1970s (before I moved abroad), I know that foreign doctors in the UK had to pass an exam that tested them not only on standard English but also on slang expressions and euphemisms for parts of the body used in different parts of the country, which were explained in a wonderful booklet. I hope this means it'll be updated and reissued.
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