Talk to a patient who answers back.
Pick a role-play card, prepare for three minutes, then speak out loud for five. The patient has a personality and worries they won’t share until you ask the right way.
60 OET Speaking role-play cards for 7 professions
20 medicine, 20 nursing, 5 dentistry, 5 dietetics, 5 occupational therapy, 4 optometry and 1 pharmacy. Each card has a setting, your role and four tasks, like the real test; the AI patient has a personality and worries of their own.
Post-operative pain management
Surgical ward
Community visit: patient removing compression bandages
Patient's home (community nursing visit)
Bronchiolitis: father wants antibiotics and to take his baby home
Paediatric ward
Discharge after a heart attack: medicines and recovery
Cardiology ward
Postnatal home visit: a mother who is not coping
Patient's home (child and family health nursing visit)
Aged care: son unhappy about his father's modified diet after a stroke
Residential aged care facility
Day surgery: angry patient whose operation is delayed after eating
Day surgery unit
Practice nurse: quitting smoking after a high blood pressure diagnosis
General practice (practice nurse clinic)
Emergency: mother frightened after her toddler's first febrile seizure
Emergency department
Ward: patient refusing anticoagulant injections after abdominal surgery
Hospital ward (surgical)
Home visit: husband caring for his wife with Parkinson's disease
Home visit (community nursing)
Community clinic: young man relying only on his asthma reliever
Community clinic (general practice)
Aged care: son angry his mother was given a sedative without his knowledge
Aged care facility
Emergency: man who wants to drive home alone after a head injury
Emergency department
Ward: anxious woman going home with a wound drain after mastectomy
Hospital ward (surgical)
Community clinic: father hesitant about his baby's MMR vaccine
Community clinic (child health / immunisation)
Home visit: older man embarrassed by his new urinary catheter
Home visit (community nursing)
Ward: husband alarmed by his wife's sudden confusion
Hospital ward (medical)
Emergency: young woman who does not plan to carry her adrenaline autoinjector
Emergency department
Aged care: resident refusing to use his walking frame
Aged care facility
New type 2 diabetes: reluctant to start medication
General practice
First febrile convulsion: frightened parent
Emergency department, paediatric area
Acute low back pain: patient demanding a scan and strong painkillers
General practice
Breaking bad news: bowel cancer biopsy result
General practice
Low mood after redundancy: assessing risk and discussing treatment
General practice
Pre-admission clinic: stopping a blood thinner before knee replacement
Hospital pre-admission clinic
Aged care: daughter requests sedation for her mother with dementia
Residential aged care facility
Poorly controlled asthma: reluctance to use a preventer inhaler
General practice
Viral sore throat: patient requesting antibiotics
Community clinic
Toddler with gastroenteritis: parent wants an IV drip
Emergency department
New diagnosis of heart failure: misunderstanding the term
Hospital ward
Concussion in a young footballer
Emergency department
GP: daily headaches from painkiller overuse in a nurse requesting stronger pain relief
Community clinic
Abnormal liver tests and alcohol intake
Community clinic
Resident with a skin tear after a fall: angry son
Aged care facility
GP: a mother's worries about her baby's 6-month immunisations
Community clinic
Chest pain: patient wishes to self-discharge
Hospital ward
Transient ischaemic attack: advice not to drive
Community clinic
Palliative care: daughter's fear of morphine
Hospital ward
Carer strain: reluctance to accept respite
Home visit
Bleeding gums in pregnancy
Dental clinic
Painful wisdom tooth before an overseas flight
Dental clinic
Dentist: early childhood tooth decay and a defensive parent
Dental clinic
Neglected oral care in a parent with dementia
Dental clinic
Dentist: root canal treatment or extraction for an anxious patient
Dental clinic
Codeine cough syrup request for a toddler
Community pharmacy
Handwriting difficulties: is my son just lazy?
Paediatric occupational therapy clinic
Refusing a shower chair before discharge after hip replacement
Orthopaedic hospital ward
Child will not wear her hand splint after a burn
Hand therapy outpatient clinic
Making the kitchen safe for a mother with dementia
Home visit
Wanting to drive home after a stroke
Inpatient rehabilitation ward
Toddler with iron deficiency and high milk intake
Paediatric outpatient clinic
Dietitian: first dietary advice after a type 2 diabetes diagnosis
Community health centre (dietetics clinic)
Weight loss in an aged care resident
Aged care facility
Husband caring for wife with Parkinson's disease
Home visit
Renal dietitian: managing fluid and potassium between haemodialysis sessions
Hospital renal dialysis unit
Child's progressing myopia: glasses and myopia control
Optometry practice
Contact lens overwear and papillary conjunctivitis
Optometry practice
Raised eye pressure: reluctance to see an ophthalmologist
Optometry practice
Retinal tear: same-day referral before a flight
Optometry practice