About

 Director of Studies RN, BSc, Dip,CELTA

My name is Deborah, the owner and director of studies at Nightingales Medical English ®, created in 2012 to support overseas colleagues with English in practice.  A friendly, empathetic, dynamic and motivational teacher, dedicated to helping students increase their confidence and language skills for practice, and to pass the Occupational English Test, (OET).

I am a native English speaker with a clear standard accent, and a British medical professional with 24 years clinical experience and 10 years as a professional language teacher. I hold the internationally recognized Cambridge Celta certification.

My clinical experience has been predominantly frontline, A&E, acute medicine, surgery, and across all medical and surgical disciplines, as well as non acute settings, chronic disease treatment, management, prevention.

Lessons focus on developing language and critical thinking skills that are essential for working in a healthcare environment.  Therefore, all lessons, courses aid preparation and simulate the situations and scenarios you will encounter in the clinical environment. Whilst learning essential OET test preparation strategies and the communication skills needed to successfully pass the OET.  Therefore, you will hopefully feel more confident and knowledgeable on exam day and better prepared for practice.

If you have an intermediate level of English, and scoring a min of 30/40 in Reading and Listening in the OET mock test, and highly motivated. I am very experienced at preparing students within a few weeks and in a few lessons to develop clinical communication skills and confidence, to pass the OET at first attempt.

Nightingales Medical English is also a registered TOLES provider. Where you can learn Legal English in context in areas in areas such as Civil Law, Human Rights, Personal Injury Litigation, GDPR, Medical Negligence, Trademark and Intellectual Property Law; For Medical professionals, international law professionals, law students, legal translators who wish to expand their legal English or prepare for the TOLES, SQE exams.

BA(Hons), Dip, TEFL

My name is Harley, I also assist with teaching and wellbeing.

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss
it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
Michelangelo