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Level

The Diploma in French for Healthcare B1 validates competence in French at CEFR level B1.

It certifies independent-level competence in French, enabling users to understand and express themselves in everyday social and professional situations. 

The holder of this diploma can carry out routine acts of professional communication in a current or generally predictable context.

Presentation of the tests

Total examination time: 1 hr 50 mins

Understanding and Processing Information

• Processing written information:
  1) Understand the characteristics of drugs in order to prescribe them to a patient,
  2) Understand and fill in a liaison form in order to transfer a patient,
  3) Understand the various components of health education in order to produce a presentation aid
• Processing oral information:
  1) Understand instructions given by a healthcare professional and complete a care protocol,
  2) Understand information given by a patient during a consultation and update a medical record
• Interacting in writing: Be able to recommend a patient to a specialist

Oral Interaction 

• Activity 1: Informing patients about their treatment, advising them and answering their questions
• Activity 2: Inform a non-specialist audience about a public health issue and related preventive measures

Skills assessed

Understanding and Processing Information

You can understand the essential elements of professional written documents such as patient files, medication sheets, infographic documents, care protocols, liaison sheets and public health data sheets.

You can understand the gist of information and requests from patients, colleagues or the nursing staff around them.

You can write prescriptions, various parts of patient files, health education materials and letters of recommendation.

Oral Interaction

You can establish social and professional contacts to inform patients about their treatment, advise them and answer their questions, or inform a non-specialist audience about a public health issue and related preventive measures.

Level

The Diploma in French for Healthcare B2/C1 is a single exam which, depending on your performance, will award a diploma at independent level B2 or advanced level C1 of the CEFR.

At level B2, the holder of this diploma can perform written and spoken professional communication tasks in all standard situations in their professional environment, including those involving a certain degree of unexpectedness.

At level C1, the learner can also identify, understand and take account of information that is relevant to the task but expressed implicitly or allusively. They can reformulate them, if necessary, maintaining a high degree of conciseness and precision in their expression and adapting their speech to the emotional state of their interlocutor (for example, by integrating formulations expressing empathy).

Presentation of the tests

Total examination time: 2 hrs 30 mins

Understanding and Processing Information 

• Processing written information: Write a memo to a health authority on a health risk to be prevented, based on a documentary file
• Processing oral information: Report on a specialist intervention on a health topic
• Interacting in writing: As a specialist, write a letter to a general practitioner with test results and recommendations

Oral Interaction  

• Activity 1: Explain the prescribed examination to a patient, then answer questions and reassure them
• Activity 2: Present a disease and health initiatives (e.g. as part of a fundraising campaign for research)

Skills assessed

Understanding and Processing Information

You can include the essential elements of documentary files on public health topics, a captioned anatomical plate, a medical act/examination/procedure description sheet.

You’ll be able to understand the gist of programs on a health topic, or questions from patients concerned about a medical procedure/examination/intervention.

You can write a note on a health risk, a report on a health topic, or a letter transmitting results and recommendations.

Oral Interaction

You can establish social and professional contacts to present and explain a medical procedure/examination/intervention to a patient and reassure them, present a disease and health actions.