Health & Medical

Short, gentle warm-up dialogues to build your confidence before the full settings.

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   Warm-up: Booking a GP Appointment by Phone

   🎧 Practice dialogue · 3 min

   Your very first health rep: a short, friendly phone call to book a doctor's appointment. Easy words, big wins — you've got this.

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   Easy: Checking In at Clinic Reception

   🎧 Practice dialogue · 4 min

   Step two: you check a patient in at the clinic front desk — a friendly exchange about their booking and details. Steady and simple.

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   Building up: Describing a Sore Throat to the Nurse

   🎧 Practice dialogue · 5 min

   Building up now: you help a patient describe a mild sore throat and cold to the nurse. Near real length, still gentle — a smooth hand-off to full dialogues.

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GP visits, hospital, maternity, mental health and pharmacy scenarios.

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   Health & Medical vocabularyFree

   🗂️ Vocabulary deck · 8 min

   The high-value English ↔ Tamil terms for this domain.

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   GP Visit: Managing Type 2 DiabetesFree

   🎧 Practice dialogue · 14 min

   A middle-aged Tamil-speaking man attends his regular GP in suburban Melbourne. His recent blood test shows his diabetes is poorly controlled. The GP reviews the results, adjusts his medication, adds a weekly injection, discusses complications and arranges follow-up. The patient raises shift work, fear of injections, side effects and early nerve and eye symptoms.

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   Maternity Check-Up: Gestational Diabetes ConcernFree

   🎧 Practice dialogue · 14 min

   A pregnant woman at 28 weeks attends an antenatal clinic at a public hospital in Melbourne. The midwife discusses a glucose tolerance test result suggesting gestational diabetes, explains dietary changes, home monitoring, costs and follow-up. The Tamil-speaking woman raises concerns about her diet, the baby's health, family history and out-of-pocket costs.

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   Mental Health Consultation: Depression and StigmaFree

   🎧 Practice dialogue · 14 min

   A Tamil-speaking man sees his GP after months of low mood, poor sleep and loss of interest. The GP explains depression, addresses community stigma, discusses a Mental Health Care Plan and subsidised psychology, conducts a sensitive risk assessment, and arranges culturally appropriate follow-up. The patient voices shame, fear of family finding out and suicidal feelings.

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   At the Pharmacy: Dispensing an AntibioticFree

   🎧 Practice dialogue · 14 min

   A Tamil-speaking customer collects an antibiotic prescription at a community pharmacy. The pharmacist explains the dosage, the importance of finishing the course, a possible interaction with the customer's blood-thinning medicine, side effects, storage and cost under the PBS. The customer asks about a missed dose, taking it with dairy, and a concession card.

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   Emergency Department: A Wrist Fracture and ConsentFree

   🎧 Practice dialogue · 14 min

   A Tamil-speaking factory worker comes to a hospital emergency department after slipping and falling on his hand. The emergency doctor assesses a likely wrist fracture, gives pain relief, checks allergies and fasting status, orders an X-ray, and discusses setting the bone under sedation, a plaster cast and consent. The patient raises pain, fear of needles, costs of time off work and waiting for his wife.

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   Specialist Referral: Bowel Screening and Colonoscopy ConsentFree

   🎧 Practice dialogue · 14 min

   A Tamil-speaking man is referred to a gastroenterologist after a positive national bowel-screening (home FOBT) test. The specialist explains that a positive result does not mean cancer, describes a colonoscopy, its risks and bowel preparation, manages the patient's diabetes medication around fasting, covers polyp removal and informed consent, and addresses the patient's cancer fear and family history.

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   Dental Visit: Root Canal or Extraction and a Payment Plan

   🎧 Practice dialogue · 14 min

   A Tamil-speaking patient comes to a suburban dental clinic with a badly decayed, painful back tooth; the dentist explains the choice between a root canal to save the tooth and an extraction, the costs of each, the fact that Medicare does not cover most adult dental work, and offers an interest-free payment plan.

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   Childhood Immunisation Catch-Up: The Schedule, Consent and No Jab No Pay

   🎧 Practice dialogue · 14 min

   A recently arrived Tamil-speaking parent brings two young children to a community immunisation clinic in suburban Melbourne, where the nurse explains the National Immunisation Program catch-up schedule, consent, mild expected side effects, and how completed vaccinations link to Family Tax Benefit and childcare under the No Jab No Pay rule.

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    Recovering After a Heart Attack: Stent, Blood Thinners and Cardiac Rehab

    🎧 Practice dialogue · 14 min

    Six weeks after a heart attack and a drug-eluting stent in the LAD artery, a cardiologist explains the patient's dual antiplatelet therapy, medication changes and a cardiac rehab referral.

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    Stage 5 Kidney Failure and Dialysis Options

    🎧 Practice dialogue · 14 min

    A nephrologist tells a Tamil-speaking patient their eGFR has fallen to 14 with Stage 5 chronic kidney disease and explains dialysis choices, fistula surgery, diet limits, and the transplant waiting list.

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    Antenatal Screening: A Higher Chance Of Down Syndrome

    🎧 Practice dialogue · 14 min

    At 13 weeks an antenatal midwife explains that the NIPT and 12-week nuchal translucency ultrasound show a 1-in-80 chance of Down syndrome, reassures the couple it is a screening not a diagnosis, and offers a 16-week amniocentesis and genetic counselling.

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    Post-Surgery Physiotherapy After A Knee Replacement

    🎧 Practice dialogue · 14 min

    Two weeks after a total knee replacement, a physiotherapist checks the patient's knee bend, sets a daily home exercise and walking plan, explains swelling care and blood-clot injections, and books follow-up sessions including a hydrotherapy pool option.

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    ACAT Home Assessment for a Home Care Package

    🎧 Practice dialogue · 14 min

    An ACAT clinician visits an 82-year-old Tamil man at home, approves a Level 3 Home Care Package, and explains the government subsidy, fees, the waiting list, interim services and how it differs from a nursing home.

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    Home Medicines Review: Sorting Out Eight Medicines

    🎧 Practice dialogue · 14 min

    During a Home Medicines Review, a community pharmacist finds a Tamil-speaking patient is doubling up on two blood-pressure tablets, explains warfarin, INR testing and turmeric/cranberry interactions, and sets up a weekly Webster-pak.

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    Cervical Screening Test And HPV Result

    🎧 Practice dialogue · 14 min

    A women's health GP explains a Cervical Screening Test result showing HPV but no abnormal cells, and discusses a repeat test in 12 months and the self-collection option with a Tamil-speaking patient.

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    Completing An Advance Care Directive

    🎧 Practice dialogue · 14 min

    A palliative care nurse visits a man with advanced stomach cancer at home to complete an Advance Care Directive, appoint his daughter as substitute decision-maker, record a not-for-resuscitation order, honour his wish to die at home, and set up a morphine syringe driver with an after-hours phone line.

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    Health & Medical mock testFree

    📝 Mock test · 22 min

    A two-dialogue mock drawn from Health & Medical under exam conditions — marked out of 90.

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