Doctors
GPs, basic doctors and specialists preparing for BIG registration. The track is built around the Dutch GP consultation: the patient's question, safety-netting, telephone triage, chronic care, mental health, referrals and end-of-life care.
Medical Dutch
Module · after B1 → B2
Medical Dutch B2 → B2+ for doctors and dentists
The BIG-register asks doctors and dentists for Dutch above B2: the language of explaining a diagnosis, discussing risk in numbers, handling a complaint and writing a referral. This module trains exactly that, in a track for your own profession, and prepares you for the B2+ language test.
- Level
- B2 → B2+
- Start from
- B2
- Tracks
- doctor · dentist
- Content
- 20–22 units + 4 exam trainings
- Study load
- 5–6 hours a week
- Format
- online, at your own pace
- Price
- €299 per profession · 12 months
Who it is for
Dentists
Dentists preparing for BIG registration. The track follows the dental practice: explaining treatment, medical history and anticoagulants, dental anxiety, costs and insurance, children, aesthetics, and working with the team.
What you will be able to do
- Explain a diagnosis and treatment options in plain Dutch, check understanding, and leave the choice with the patient.
- Talk about risk in natural frequencies — «12 out of 100 people like you» — instead of percentages.
- Stay calm and precise in difficult conversations: a demanding patient, anxiety, bad news, a complaint, a mistake.
- Use the right register: with a child, with a parent, with a colleague, in a guideline or a legal text.
- Write clear record notes (SOEP), referral letters, incident reports and replies to complaints.
The tracks
Doctor · 10 chapters, 20 units
| # | Chapter | In the consultation room |
|---|---|---|
| H1 | Het consult | the real question behind the visit; ideas, concerns, expectations |
| H2 | Uitleg en beleid | no antibiotics, but a clear safety net; watchful waiting |
| H3 | Samen beslissen met cijfers | absolute and relative risk; statins and blood pressure |
| H4 | Telefoon en spoed | telephone triage; chest pain; the out-of-hours GP service |
| H5 | Kind en ouders | talking to a child and a parent at once; a child with fever |
| H6 | Chronische zorg | motivational interviewing; polypharmacy; informal carers |
| H7 | Psyche en onverklaarde klachten | unexplained symptoms without dismissing; asking about suicidal thoughts |
| H8 | Uitslagen en verwijzen | lab results the patient already saw in an app; referral letters |
| H9 | Gevoelige gesprekken | sexual health; suspected domestic violence and the reporting code |
| H10 | Het levenseinde | palliative care; a request for euthanasia; a family that disagrees |
Dentist · 11 chapters, 22 units
| # | Chapter | In the dental chair |
|---|---|---|
| H1 | Uitleg aan de patiënt | technical term to plain language; pulpitis |
| H2 | De periodieke controle | news without alarm; hygiene instructions that get followed |
| H3 | Anamnese en medicatie | anticoagulants and bisphosphonates; calling the GP |
| H4 | Angst en pijn | dental anxiety; the stop signal; tell–show–do |
| H5 | Behandelingen | filling, crown, bridge or implant |
| H6 | De verstandskies en chirurgie | informed consent; nerve risk; aftercare |
| H7 | Kosten, begroting en verzekering | a cost estimate; who pays what |
| H8 | Kind en ouders | caries at four; changing teeth; signs of neglect |
| H9 | Esthetiek en orthodontie | saying no to veneers on healthy teeth; online aligners |
| H10 | Slijtage en mondslijmvlies | grinding and erosion; a white patch on the tongue |
| H11 | Dossier, verwijzen en samenwerken | a wrong tooth number; incident reporting; feedback in the team |
What is in every unit
- A story or article from your own profession, with vocabulary and grammar patterns explained in English.
- A patient conversation to practise out loud: listen to the patient, record your answer, compare it with a model answer and a checklist.
- A realistic document — a leaflet, a cost estimate, a lab result, a triage scale — and a writing task such as a record note or referral letter.
- Interactive diagrams, switchable between professional terms and patient language.
- Links to the matching theory cards on BigMentor, for those also preparing for the BI-toets.
Exam training, certificate and exam
This module does not give a language certificate. The BIG-register accepts B2+ only from the institutions on its own list, and the certificate may be at most two years old. You take that test separately, at an institution of your choice. Check the current list on bigregister.nl.
The institutions on the list use two kinds of test. The module trains both, for each profession:
- General B2+ test — reading with multiple choice, listening fragments played once, a summary of a recording, a presentation, describing a photo and an argumentative essay.
- Medical-communicative test — summarising a medical text, a consultation with a simulated patient after preparing a case, and a written patient report.
You can take each exam training as often as you like.
What you need
- Dutch at B2, for example after our module Medical Dutch B1 → B2 or the Staatsexamen NT2 programme II.
- A computer or phone with headphones and a microphone for the speaking tasks.
- Nothing to buy: all texts, audio and exercises are online.
Price
€299 for twelve months of access, 21% Dutch VAT included. One payment, no subscription.
- You pay for your own profession: the dentist track or the doctor track. A dentist has no use for twenty units of general practice, and should not pay for them.
- The exam trainings come with your track — two with the dentist track, two with the doctor track.
- Starting from B1? The module before this one is B1 → B2 (€199), sold separately.
- Both modules are included at no extra charge in the full MentoraMedic programmes, and an employer or municipality can be invoiced directly: [email protected].
Open the module
sign in, then choose your track — a module attaches to your account