The study journal
Ideas to explore. Skills to practise. Find something useful for your next study session.
OET Dietitian Update Letters: Weight, CKD Diets and New Diabetes Referrals
Problem: update and progress letters read as diaries — “seen, advised, review” — giving the GP nothing to act on. Answer in brief: updates report change…
OET Dietitian Letters: The 4-Paragraph Band-B Skeleton for Metabolic Cases
Problem: dietitian referrals drift into diet sheets — long food lists, no clinical question — while the GP or specialist hunts for the reason. Answer in…
OET Lesion, Pain and Prosthodontic Referrals: Urgent Judgement for Dentists
Problem: the highest-stakes dental decision is triage — which lesion is urgent, which pain is joint vs tooth, which prosthodontic case needs surgery first….
OET Oral Surgery Referrals: Third Molars, Acute Presentations and Periodontal Cases
Problem: surgical referrals need different evidence than routine ones — angulation, nerve proximity, infection spread — and acute presentations need tempo…
OET Dentistry Referrals: Orthodontic, Periodontal, Implant and Prosthodontic Letters
Problem: dental referrals fail on missing specifics — “please assess” with no crowding measurements, no pocket depths, no implant site details. Answer in…
OET Guided Practice Letters: Wound Referral, Stoma Discharge, Renal Procedure
Problem: knowing the method and performing it under time are different skills — unguided practice repeats the same faults. Answer in brief: guided tasks…
OET Nursing Case Letters: Non-Healing Wounds, Renal Procedures, Stroke Transfer
Problem: generic method helps, but some cases appear again and again — the non-healing wound, the planned renal procedure, the stroke transfer — and each…
OET Editing Workshop: Tense Repairs and Paragraph Surgery for Nurses
Problem: most candidates spend 40 minutes writing and zero minutes editing — then lose marks to faults a five-minute pass would catch. Answer in brief: edit…
OET Nursing Tenses and Passive Voice: Write a Safe Discharge Letter
Problem: tense errors in nursing letters are patient-safety errors on paper — “wound infected” vs “wound was infected” changes whether the GP acts today….
OET Nursing Stroke Letters: The Stroke Engine for Rehab and Transfer Writing
Problem: stroke letters sprawl — deficits here, therapy there, discharge somewhere, and the receiving nurse cannot find what to do on Monday. Answer in…