Medicine role-plays
Cases generated against a medicine topic schema — diabetes counselling, post-op handover, discussing surgical options and consent.
For doctors
OET Speaking practice built formigrating doctors.
Live AI patient role-plays, 9-criteria Speaking scoring, and a case bank tuned to medicine scenarios — plus an AI marker that scores your OET Writing referral letters on all six official criteria.
Start free in your browser Web app · Windows, Mac, Android, Chromebook
One account on both: start on one, carry on with the other.
Want more? Try Essential monthly free for 3 days — up to 30 practice minutes (about 6 role-plays). A card is required; cancel before the trial ends and you are not charged, otherwise it renews at US$39.99/month.
Web app + iPhone app3-day free trial of Essential: up to 30 practice minutes (card required)
Medicine-specific cases
Profession-aware role-plays covering 8+ medicine scenarios.
9-criteria OET scoring
Full official rubric — automatically scored on every role-play.
5+ regulators served
UK GMC · AHPRA / Medical Board of Australia · MCNZ and more.
OET Writing, marked
Referral letters scored on all 6 official Writing criteria, with inline annotations.
What doctors get
Built around the scenarios doctors actually face.
A GP discussing the results of an ultrasound with a worried 64-year-old patient who has just been told they have a thyroid nodule.
Every OET criterion, scored
Intelligibility, fluency, appropriateness, grammar, empathy, patient perspective, structure, gathering, giving — plus a 0–500 overall and an A–E grade.
Pronunciation diagnostics
Industry-grade pronunciation analysis surfaces the specific words that hurt your score — including the clinical vocabulary doctors say every day.
Cue verification per task
Each role-card has 4–5 tasks. We verify each one against your transcript with the exact quote you used — hit, partial, or miss.
Targets doctors' weak spots
Most doctors lose marks in the same places: understanding the patient perspective, information giving (chunking + checks), empathy under bad-news conditions. The recommender targets these criteria first.
Medicine Writing letters, marked
Write a medicine referral letter against a profession-specific case, then get it scored on all six official OET Writing criteria — with inline annotations and band-5 + band-7 model answers.
Privacy by default
Your recordings, transcripts, and scores stay on infrastructure we control. Export everything, delete your account, and your data is gone.
Where doctors use it
Accepted by the regulators doctors register with.
OET is recognised by healthcare regulators in every major destination. Practice on OET Live and you're preparing for the exact same Speaking format every one of them assesses.
United Kingdom
UK GMC
Australia
AHPRA / Medical Board of Australia
New Zealand
MCNZ
Ireland
Medical Council of Ireland
Singapore
Singapore Medical Council
What each board asks for
You may not need Grade B in all four.
Every prep site repeats the same line: doctors need Grade B in all four sub-tests. Two of the largest destinations do not ask for that, and a candidate who believes they do books a re-sit they never needed. Here is what each board actually publishes.
| Regulator | Listening | Reading | Writing | Speaking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
United Kingdom General Medical Council UK (GMC) B in all four, and OET@Home is accepted alongside the paper and computer sittings. | B | B | B | B |
Australia Medical Board of Australia The strict one. B in every sub-test, and the at-home sitting is not on its accepted list - book the paper or computer test. | B | B | B | B |
New Zealand Medical Council of New Zealand Writing is C+ (300-340), not B. This is the concession most candidates never hear about. | B | B | C+ | B |
United States Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) Same Writing concession as New Zealand, on the route into the US match. | B | B | C+ | B |
Canada College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario Canadian provincial colleges cluster at B across the board. | B | B | B | B |
Singapore Singapore Medical Council | B | B | B | B |
United Arab Emirates Dubai Health Authority C across all four, well below what most candidates assume the Gulf requires. | C | C | C | C |
- Grade C is 200-290 on the 0-500 scale, Grade C+ is 300-340, and Grade B is 350-440.
- Sit the Medicine version of the test, not a general one. Every board on this table specifies the profession-specific paper.
- The Medical Council of Ireland recognises OET but does not publish a per-sub-test grade in the official list, so it is deliberately not given a row here rather than guessed at - check directly with the Council before you book.
- Every row reflects what OET published in its recognising-organisations list on 21 August 2026. Requirements move: confirm with your own regulator before you book, because a board that raises its threshold will not refund your sitting.
The answer for one country
A page per destination, stating what doctors need there and which board decides — built to be linked when somebody asks.
More detail: how the 0–500 score maps to a letter grade and the full list of countries and regulators that accept OET.
Inside the bank
Common medicine scenarios you'll practice.
Every case is generated against a medicine-specific topic schema and audited against the OET rubric before it enters the bank.
Breaking difficult news (cancer, terminal diagnosis)
Counselling for chronic disease management
Discussing surgical options and consent
Managing patient reluctance around medication
Family-centred conversations and clinician handover
Lifestyle counselling (smoking, alcohol, weight)
Mental health screening and referral
Pre-operative consent and risk explanation
Practice role-play cards for doctors — the candidate side of each role-play, from our own practice bank.
Sample case
What a 5-minute medicine role-play looks like.
Setting
General practice, follow-up consultation
Tasks
- 1Establish rapport and acknowledge Mr Khan's concern about his thyroid nodule.
- 2Gather his specific fears and any risk factors.
- 3Explain the common causes, blood tests, biopsy criteria, and follow-up.
- 4Address his anxiety about safety implications.
- 5Agree on a clear next step that fits his situation.
Phrase bank
Four phrases worth drilling.
Internalise these and you'll have go-to language for the moments that matter most in migrating doctors' consultations.
Warning shot
“I'm afraid the results show something we need to discuss carefully.”
Eliciting ICE
“Before I explain the results, can I ask what you've been thinking might be going on?”
Chunked explanation
“Let me explain that in two parts. The first part is what we found...”
Closing
“I know this is a lot. Is there anything you'd like me to repeat or clarify?”
Now scoring OET Writing
Not just Speaking — OET Writing for doctors, too.
Write a medicine referral letter against a profession-specific case — timed under exam conditions, or untimed with hints and model answers — and get it marked on all six official OET Writing criteria. Inline annotations show the phrases that cost you marks, and band-5 + band-7 sample answers show the next band up. There is no word-count penalty: length is judged only through relevance and summarising.
Scored 0–3
Purpose
Scored 0–7
Content
Scored 0–7
Conciseness & Clarity
Scored 0–7
Genre & Style
Scored 0–7
Organisation & Layout
Scored 0–7
Language
FAQ
What doctors ask most often.
What OET score does the UK GMC require?
The UK GMC requires Grade B (350+) in each sub-test. Aggregation is allowed across two sittings within 12 months provided each sitting on its own had no sub-test below 350, and one sitting had at least Grade B across the board.
How does AHPRA handle non-native English doctors?
AHPRA accepts OET Grade B (350+) in each sub-test, or IELTS Academic 7.0 overall with at least 7.0 in Speaking. Limited aggregation is permitted.
Is OET enough for the PLAB exam?
OET is accepted by the GMC as evidence of English proficiency for PLAB and full registration. You still need to pass PLAB 1 and PLAB 2 (or the equivalent route) separately.
Does OET cost more for doctors than for nurses?
No. There is one exam fee for every profession — AU$587 outside the United States, about US$410. OET Medicine and OET Nursing are versions of the same test at the same price. What differs by profession is the grade each regulator asks for, not what you pay.
Is OET Medicine a different test from OET Nursing?
Partly. Listening and Reading are identical for every profession — the same papers on the same day. Writing and Speaking are profession-specific: doctors write referral letters from a medical case and role-play as a doctor, so the clinical content and the register differ even though the marking criteria are the same.
Practice medicine OET on your iPhone. Download today.
AI patient role-plays, 9-criteria scoring, and Writing marked on all six official criteria — built specifically for migrating doctors. Free tier: 1 fully-scored exam role-play plus 10 Coach minutes, no card.
Start free in your browser Web app · Windows, Mac, Android, Chromebook
One account on both: start on one, carry on with the other.