Serious OET preparation, built around how the exam actually scores you.
I provide online OET preparation for doctors and nurses across Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking, with the work built around the assessment criteria, your current level and the particular mistakes that are costing you marks.
Preparation can be one-to-one, in a small cohort, or through a recruitment agency or healthcare organisation. The format changes; the standard of preparation does not.
The exam is the same. Your preparation doesn’t have to be.
Some candidates need private OET lessons around an unpredictable clinical rota. Others prefer the structure of a small cohort. Recruitment agencies and healthcare organisations need something different again. The format changes; the preparation remains focused on the same OET criteria and score requirements.
One-to-One OET Preparation
Individual online OET preparation for doctors and nurses who want the work built around their current level, exam date and clinical schedule.
- Preparation across Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking
- Flexible scheduling around shifts, on-call work and changing rotas
- Focused feedback on the mistakes currently costing you marks
OET Cohorts
Structured small-group OET preparation for candidates who want a clear timetable, a shared exam timeline and the advantages of learning alongside other medical professionals.
- Fixed programme with a clear progression towards the exam
- The same exam-specific methodology used in private preparation
- A more affordable route without becoming a large anonymous class
Agencies & Healthcare Organisations
OET preparation for recruitment agencies, hospitals and healthcare organisations supporting doctors and nurses through international recruitment or registration.
- Individual or small-group preparation depending on candidate numbers
- Programmes aligned with recruitment and registration timelines
- Structured progress reporting where appropriate
The aim is simple: identify what is costing you marks, and fix it before test day.
OET candidates rarely need more generic English. They need to understand where their performance is falling short of the assessment criteria, what that looks like in each sub-test, and what to do differently under exam conditions.
That is the focus of the preparation here: specific feedback, repeated practice, and enough structure to make progress visible before you sit the exam.
Work out whether marks are being lost through language, task understanding, timing, technique or the way the OET criteria are being applied.
Spend preparation time on the areas that actually need work rather than repeatedly completing full tests without changing the underlying performance.
Use focused feedback and repeated practice so that improvement can be seen before the exam rather than hoped for on test day.
More practice is not always better. Better-targeted practice is.
OET preparation has to compete with shifts, on-call work and everything else in a medical professional’s week. Spending that limited time repeatedly practising what you can already do well is rarely the best use of it.
A resit means another test booking and more time before you have the scores you need. The aim here is therefore not to make you study endlessly. It is to identify where marks are being lost, work deliberately on those areas, and use your preparation time intelligently.
For one candidate, that may mean Writing almost exclusively. For another, it may be Reading under time pressure or Speaking against the assessment criteria. Preparation should respond to the problem in front of us.
One exam. Four distinct disciplines.
The Clinical Ear.
Three parts: two patient consultations, six short workplace extracts, two longer presentations. Tests the precise discriminations that matter on a ward — symptom timing, dosage, instructions, family history.
- Mistaking gist comprehension for the discrete-item accuracy required
- Losing concentration during the longer Part C presentations
- Spelling errors on medical terminology that lose otherwise correct answers
The Discerning Reader.
Part A is a 15-minute information-retrieval challenge across four texts. Parts B and C demand inferential reading of authentic healthcare prose — guidelines, journal articles, hospital notices.
- Spending too long in Part A and arriving at Part C exhausted
- Selecting the answer that "sounds right" rather than the one the text supports
- Missing concession structures: "although", "despite", "while" — where meaning often pivots
Recent guidance from NICE recommends that patients presenting with stable angina symptoms should undergo CT coronary angiography as a first-line investigation, rather than the previously preferred exercise tolerance test. While this represents a significant shift in practice, uptake has been uneven, with smaller centres citing capacity constraints and concerns about radiation exposure in younger patients.
The Precise Letter.
A single profession-specific letter — referral, discharge, transfer, or advice — based on case notes. Assessed on Purpose, Content, Conciseness, Genre, Style, Organisation, Language. Most candidates lose marks not on grammar but on selection.
- Including every detail from the case notes — losing marks for Conciseness
- Writing to the wrong audience register (e.g., colloquial to a senior consultant)
- Burying the purpose in paragraph three rather than the opening sentence
Using the information in the case notes, write a letter of referral to Ms. Helen Carter, Senior Physiotherapist, requesting ongoing rehabilitation for Mr. Walker. Do not use note form. Expand the relevant case notes into complete sentences.
The Composed Clinician.
Two profession-specific role-plays of approximately five minutes each. Assessed on Indicators (intelligibility, fluency, language) and Clinical Communication (relationship, gathering information, providing information).
- Treating the role-play as a language test rather than a clinical interaction
- Forgetting to acknowledge concerns before delivering information
- Over-using rehearsed phrases that sound mechanical to an examiner
Your target is not simply “pass OET.” It is the score your regulator requires.
OET reports each sub-test separately on a 0–500 scale, alongside a letter grade. There is no single overall score that compensates for a weak sub-test: what matters is meeting the requirements set by the organisation you are applying to. You can also review the official OET results and scoring guide for the full scoring framework.
Requirements differ by profession, country and regulator. A doctor applying to the GMC, for example, is working towards a different scoring requirement from a nurse applying to the NMC. Your preparation should begin with the threshold that actually applies to you.
From diagnosis to exam day. Preparation with a reason behind every step.
There is no fixed syllabus that every candidate has to complete in exactly the same way. We start by establishing where you are now, then concentrate the work where it is most likely to improve your OET performance.
Diagnostic Assessment
We establish your current performance using OET-style tasks and the relevant assessment criteria. The aim is not simply to produce a score, but to identify where marks are being lost and why.
Language gaps, task interpretation, timing, technique and criterion-specific weaknesses across the sub-tests that matter to you.
Targeted Practice
Preparation then concentrates on the areas that actually need work. For one candidate that may mean repeated Writing correction; for another, timed Reading, Listening technique, Speaking role-plays or a combination of all four.
We do not spend equal amounts of time on everything simply because the exam has four sub-tests.
Clinical Communication
In Speaking, fluent English is only part of the task. We work through realistic role-plays and examine how effectively you gather information, structure the interaction, respond to the patient and communicate in a clinically appropriate way.
The goal is not to memorise stock phrases. It is to make effective clinical communication reproducible under test conditions.
Exam-Ready Performance
As your test approaches, individual skills are brought back together under realistic time pressure. Timed tasks and mock work show whether the improvements made in practice are holding when exam conditions are introduced.
The aim is to reach a level of performance that is consistent enough for you to approach the exam with evidence, rather than hope.
Candidates do not all begin at the same point, and they do not all need the same number of lessons. The process adapts to your starting level, target score, exam date and clinical schedule.
OET preparation shaped by education, assessment and years of teaching.
MedPerformatics brings together more than 16 years of English-language teaching, doctoral research in education, OET-specific preparation and professional coaching training. The point is not to collect credentials. It is to make the preparation more analytical, more individual and more useful to medical professionals with limited time.
PhD in Education Policy
A research background that informs how learning, assessment and evidence are approached.
Exam-specific preparation
Teaching built around OET tasks, assessment criteria and the communication demands of healthcare settings.
16+ years in English-language education
Experience across advanced English, exam preparation and professional communication.
Professionally trained coach
Coaching skills support goal-setting, feedback and behaviour change without turning OET lessons into generic life coaching.
Preparation should be precise enough to respect the exam and human enough to respect the person taking it.
What doctors say about the preparation.
My acquaintance with Dr. Samartzis began shortly after I moved to Boston from Greece while searching for a tutor to help me prepare for the OET, a test I needed to pass to become ECFMG certified. He guided me on where to focus my efforts and provided tailored learning materials.
In the following sessions, he identified my weaknesses and offered clear and effective strategies to improve them. His engaging teaching style and expertise made the preparation process both efficient and enjoyable. Overall, I give Dr. Samartzis my highest recommendation as a tutor for the OET exam.
I took OET Medicine lessons with Constantine for about two months to obtain the certification. Although my level wasn't C2, thanks to his excellent organisation, ability to convey knowledge and pleasant personality, I managed to achieve my goal on the first attempt. I highly recommend him!
Start with 20 minutes. Leave with a clearer plan.
Tell me where you are now, which scores you need and when you hope to take the OET. We can then work out whether one-to-one preparation, a small cohort or organisational support is the right route.