Government, Healthcare
Select healthcare professionals with the right level of English to deliver high-quality care and ensure patient safety
Grant visas and healthcare registration with confidence
Language proficiency plays a crucial role in effective communication and quality care
Governments, healthcare boards and councils have a crucial role to play in safe-guarding public safety. When you need to select healthcare professionals for English-speaking environments, OET gives confidence for safe and effective practice.
Patient safety and
quality care
Limited language proficiency is an obstacle to effective communication affecting quality of care. OET is designed to replicate the critical tasks of workplace settings and measure candidates’ abilities across the skills of listening, reading, writing and speaking (Elder et al, 2013).
Ability to communicate in an English-speaking
healthcare workplace
“OET test takers are perceived as effective communicators able to communicate on matters that are both technical and emotional and who can use lay language so that patients can easily understand what they are saying.” Vidakovic & Khalifa (2013)
Test material developed
by experts
Listening and reading materials developed by the Research and Validation team at Cambridge English Language Assessment. Test materials are piloted and trial results subjected to statistical analysis to confirm validity and reliability. Speaking and writing materials developed by experienced test writers in consultation with subject-matter experts.
Highly secure test
you can trust
Delivered in 30 countries through secure facilities with highly-trained staff. Robust identity checks, extensive malpractice checks and test material assessed centrally.
Valid and reliable; underpinned by
leading institutions and research
Majority owned by Cambridge English, and partnering with the Australian Research Council and University of Melbourne, OET has featured prominently in research literature relating to language testing in specific-purpose contexts. OET Research >>
Secure, Online
Results verification
The OET Results Verification Service allows OET recognising organisations to check the authenticity of OET ‘Statement of Results’ (SOR) certificates online in a quick, secure and reliable way. OET Results Verification information >>
