Serious OET preparation for
Doctors & Nurses.
HOW I WORK
Three ways into the preparation.
OET preparation isn’t one-size-fits-all. The right format depends on where you are in your career, how much time you have before your test date, and whether you’re preparing on your own or through an organisation.
Path 01
One-to-One Preparation
For doctors and senior nurses who want focused, individual preparation. Sessions are scheduled around clinical shifts, materials are calibrated to your specialty, and the plan is built backwards from your target test date.
Path 02
Cohort Preparation
Structured, expert-led preparation at an accessible price point. Most cohort students come from high-volume IMG markets — India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, the Philippines, and similar — though anyone who prefers the group format is welcome.
Path 03
Agencies & Hospitals
For international recruitment agencies and hospital partners placing IMGs abroad. I’m set up to work with organisations on bulk preparation, candidate readiness assessment, and ongoing pass-rate reporting. Pricing and structure are calibrated to volume, timeline, and the markets you recruit from.
If you place IMGs into the UK, Ireland, Australia, or the Gulf, the framework is built around exactly those registration pathways. If you recruit elsewhere, the underlying methodology still applies.
OET preparation isn't a side offer here.
It’s the work I do most of, every week, and have done for the past three years. I hold a PhD in Education Policy from the University of the Aegean, an MSc from the University of Bristol, and a BA from the University of London. I’ve taught English at school, college, and university level for over sixteen years. I hold the OET Teacher Training Badge, and I’m an ICF-trained coach with multiple certifications across life, business, and behavioural coaching.
I mention this not to impress, but because most of my students are doctors and nurses who can spot a hobbyist within ten minutes. You shouldn’t have to.
About
I'm Dr Konstantinos
I’m a tutor, coach, and academic based in Rhodes, Greece, working with medical professionals around the world. My main work is OET preparation. The majority of my students over the past three years have been doctors and nurses sitting OET as part of a move abroad — to the UK, Ireland, Australia, or the Gulf.
Before I went full-time as a freelance tutor, I taught English in Greek schools and at university level for over a decade. My academic background is in education policy and applied linguistics — which sounds dry until you realise that’s exactly what OET is testing. The exam isn’t about whether your English is good. It’s about whether your written and spoken English would actually function in a clinical setting. The research literature on how language is acquired, assessed, and applied in professional contexts is a real foundation for the work, and I draw on it directly when I design preparation plans.
Alongside the OET work, I’m an ICF-trained coach. I work with a smaller number of medical professionals on the parts of their career that sit outside the exam — burnout, transitions between countries, performance under pressure, the difficult first year after relocation. I’m honest about the limits of coaching: it isn’t therapy, and it isn’t a shortcut. But the research base is real, and for the right person at the right moment, structured coaching makes a measurable difference.
- The Foundation PhD / Education Policy
- The Yeaching 16+ Years, all levels
- The Methodology ICF-TRAINED COACH
- THE PHYSICAL BASELINE TRAINED THROUGH NASM
- THE SPECIALISATION OET & COACHING FOR MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS
What makes OET preparation different.
OET is unlike IELTS, TOEFL, or PTE in one important way: it’s a domain-specific exam. It scores you on whether your English would actually work inside a hospital — whether your referral letter is structurally sound, whether your patient explanation is clear without being condescending, whether your discharge summary contains the right information in the right order. That’s why doctors with strong general English still fail Writing on the first attempt, and why generic English preparation tends to plateau around B-grade.
My preparation is built around the exam’s actual scoring criteria — the Linguistic Features and Clinical Communication Criteria that examiners use, the structural conventions OET expects in each writing sub-task, and the listening and reading patterns that recur across test versions. We work systematically across all four sub-tests, with materials calibrated to your specialty wherever possible.
For the full breakdown — including how I structure each sub-test, what the timeline typically looks like, and what materials you’ll work with — see the OET preparation page.
From doctors and nurses I've worked with.
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Performance coaching for medical professionals.
Alongside OET preparation, I work with a small number of medical professionals on the parts of their career that aren’t about an exam — sustained performance, burnout, career transitions, the year after relocation when the language is fine but everything else isn’t. The coaching is one-to-one, structured around ICF-aligned methodology, and grounded in the research literature on coaching for physicians.
It isn’t therapy, and it isn’t generic life coaching dressed up in medical vocabulary. It’s a structured working relationship, usually over three to six months, focused on a specific goal you bring to the work. I’m primarily set up for medical professionals — doctors, nurses, and registrars — but I’m also open to working with people in pharmaceutical and clinical research roles where the underlying questions are similar.
If this sounds relevant, the best next step is a short conversation to see whether the work fits what you actually need. I’d rather tell you it isn’t a fit than take on work I can’t deliver well.
Backed by Medical Research
Coaching for physicians has been studied in randomized clinical trials and a systematic review published in journals such as JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Network Open, and PLOS One. These studies report reductions in burnout and improvements in aspects of well-being for physicians who participated in structured coaching programs compared with control groups.
Ready to start preparing?
Book a 20-minute consultation. We’ll talk about your target test date, what you’ve tried so far, and whether one-to-one preparation, a cohort, or a partnership route is the right fit. No pressure, no upsell — if I’m not the right tutor for you, I’ll say so.