Health & Medical
GP visits, hospital, maternity, mental health and pharmacy scenarios.
Health & Medical
GP visits, hospital, maternity, mental health and pharmacy scenarios.
- Try free →Health & Medical vocabularyFreeVocabulary deck · 8 min
The high-value English ↔ Punjabi terms for this domain.
- Try free →GP Visit: Managing Type 2 DiabetesFreePractice dialogue · 14 min
A middle-aged Punjabi-speaking man attends his regular GP in suburban Melbourne. His recent blood test shows his diabetes is poorly controlled. The GP reviews the results, adjusts his medication, adds a weekly injection, discusses complications and arranges follow-up. The patient raises shift work, fear of injections, side effects and early nerve and eye symptoms.
- Try free →Maternity Check-Up: Gestational Diabetes ConcernFreePractice dialogue · 14 min
A pregnant woman at 28 weeks attends an antenatal clinic at a public hospital in Melbourne. The midwife discusses a glucose tolerance test result suggesting gestational diabetes, explains dietary changes, home monitoring, costs and follow-up. The Punjabi-speaking woman raises concerns about her diet, the baby's health, family history and out-of-pocket costs.
- Try free →Mental Health Consultation: Depression and StigmaFreePractice dialogue · 14 min
A Punjabi-speaking man sees his GP after months of low mood, poor sleep and loss of interest. The GP explains depression, addresses community stigma, discusses a Mental Health Care Plan and subsidised psychology, conducts a sensitive risk assessment, and arranges culturally appropriate follow-up. The patient voices shame, fear of family finding out and suicidal feelings.
- Try free →At the Pharmacy: Dispensing an AntibioticFreePractice dialogue · 14 min
A Punjabi-speaking customer collects an antibiotic prescription at a community pharmacy. The pharmacist explains the dosage, the importance of finishing the course, a possible interaction with the customer's blood-thinning medicine, side effects, storage and cost under the PBS. The customer asks about a missed dose, taking it with dairy, and a concession card.
- Try free →Emergency Department: A Wrist Fracture and ConsentFreePractice dialogue · 14 min
A Punjabi-speaking factory worker comes to a hospital emergency department after slipping and falling on his hand. The emergency doctor assesses a likely wrist fracture, gives pain relief, checks allergies and fasting status, orders an X-ray, and discusses setting the bone under sedation, a plaster cast and consent. The patient raises pain, fear of needles, costs of time off work and waiting for his wife.
- Try free →Specialist Referral: Bowel Screening and Colonoscopy ConsentFreePractice dialogue · 14 min
A Punjabi-speaking man is referred to a gastroenterologist after a positive national bowel-screening (home FOBT) test. The specialist explains that a positive result does not mean cancer, describes a colonoscopy, its risks and bowel preparation, manages the patient's diabetes medication around fasting, covers polyp removal and informed consent, and addresses the patient's cancer fear and family history.
- Unlock →Dental Visit: Root Canal or Extraction and a Payment PlanPractice dialogue · 14 min
A Punjabi-speaking patient comes to a suburban dental clinic with a badly decayed, painful back tooth; the dentist explains the choice between a root canal to save the tooth and an extraction, the costs of each, the fact that Medicare does not cover most adult dental work, and offers an interest-free payment plan.
- Unlock →Childhood Immunisation Catch-Up: The Schedule, Consent and No Jab No PayPractice dialogue · 14 min
A recently arrived Punjabi-speaking parent brings two young children to a community immunisation clinic in suburban Melbourne, where the nurse explains the National Immunisation Program catch-up schedule, consent, mild expected side effects, and how completed vaccinations link to Family Tax Benefit and childcare under the No Jab No Pay rule.
- Unlock →Recovering After a Heart Attack: Stent, Blood Thinners and Cardiac RehabPractice dialogue · 14 min
Six weeks after a heart attack and a drug-eluting stent in the LAD artery, a cardiologist explains the patient's dual antiplatelet therapy, medication changes and a cardiac rehab referral.
- Unlock →Stage 5 Kidney Failure and Dialysis OptionsPractice dialogue · 14 min
A nephrologist tells a Punjabi-speaking patient their eGFR has fallen to 14 with Stage 5 chronic kidney disease and explains dialysis choices, fistula surgery, diet limits, and the transplant waiting list.
- Unlock →Antenatal Screening: A Higher Chance Of Down SyndromePractice dialogue · 14 min
At 13 weeks an antenatal midwife explains that the NIPT and 12-week nuchal translucency ultrasound show a 1-in-80 chance of Down syndrome, reassures the couple it is a screening not a diagnosis, and offers a 16-week amniocentesis and genetic counselling.
- Unlock →Post-Surgery Physiotherapy After A Knee ReplacementPractice dialogue · 14 min
Two weeks after a total knee replacement, a physiotherapist checks the patient's knee bend, sets a daily home exercise and walking plan, explains swelling care and blood-clot injections, and books follow-up sessions including a hydrotherapy pool option.
- Unlock →ACAT Home Assessment for a Home Care PackagePractice dialogue · 14 min
An ACAT clinician visits an 82-year-old Punjabi man at home, approves a Level 3 Home Care Package, and explains the government subsidy, fees, the waiting list, interim services and how it differs from a nursing home.
- Unlock →Home Medicines Review: Sorting Out Eight MedicinesPractice dialogue · 14 min
During a Home Medicines Review, a community pharmacist finds a Punjabi-speaking patient is doubling up on two blood-pressure tablets, explains warfarin, INR testing and turmeric/cranberry interactions, and sets up a weekly Webster-pak.
- Unlock →Cervical Screening Test And HPV ResultPractice dialogue · 14 min
A women's health GP explains a Cervical Screening Test result showing HPV but no abnormal cells, and discusses a repeat test in 12 months and the self-collection option with a Punjabi-speaking patient.
- Unlock →Completing An Advance Care DirectivePractice dialogue · 14 min
A palliative care nurse visits a man with advanced stomach cancer at home to complete an Advance Care Directive, appoint his daughter as substitute decision-maker, record a not-for-resuscitation order, honour his wish to die at home, and set up a morphine syringe driver with an after-hours phone line.
- Try free →Health & Medical mock testFreeMock test · 22 min
A two-dialogue mock drawn from Health & Medical under exam conditions — marked out of 90.
Learn the words first — the Health & Medical vocabulary list has every term in this module with Gurmukhi, transliteration and an example sentence.