Bengaluru: The Occupational English Test (OET) for healthcare professionals, offered by Cambridge Assessment English (Part of the University of Cambridge) and Cambridge Boxhill Language Assessment, is now accepted by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, UK (NMC) as proof of English proficiency for overseas-trained nurses and midwives for registration purposes.
The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) has announced that it will formally recognise OET for overseas-trained nurses and midwives for registration purposes. The first healthcare regulators to recognise OET in the UK and Ireland, NMC and NMBI respectively join a wide range of healthcare boards and councils in Australia, New Zealand, Dubai and Singapore who recognise OET for registration across 12 healthcare professions - Dentistry, Dietetics, Medicine, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Optometry, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, Radiography, Speech Pathology and Veterinary Science.
OET is also used by leading healthcare educators for entry and exit testing, to ensure students have the work-ready English language skills on graduation.
