The Medical Chinese Test (MCT) is a professional exam designed to evaluate the Chinese language proficiency of non-native speakers in medical contexts. It primarily targets medical international students,healthcare professionals, and non-Chinese users engaged in -related work. The level classification is based on language complexity and practical application needs in medical scenarios, divided into three tiers: Level 1 (Basic), Level 2 (Intermediate), and Level 3 (Advanced). Here is the detailed classification:
1. Level 1 (Basic)
Ability Description:
Can conduct simple communication in basic medical scenarios, understand common medical vocabulary and short sentences, and complete fundamental medical procedures or daily healthcare tasks.
Applicable Scenarios:
Outpatient registration, describing common symptoms (e.g., headache, fever, cough).
Understanding basic medical instructions (e.g., medication frequency, dietary restrictions), reading simple laboratory reports.
Engaging in daily nursing communication (e.g., measuring body temperature, blood pressure).
Exam Content:
Listening: Short dialogues between doctors and patients (e.g., medical history inquiry, drug instructions).
Reading: Basic medical vocabulary, outpatient guidelines, excerpts from drug说明书 (drug labels).
Writing: Filling in basic medical record information, short symptom notes.
2. Level 2 (Intermediate)
Ability Description:
Can effectively communicate in routine medical scenarios, handle professional medical affairs, understand moderately difficult medical materials, and deliver coherent medical expressions.
Applicable Scenarios:
Specialist outpatient diagnosis communication (e.g., condition analysis in internal or surgical departments), pre-surgical informed communication.
Reading medical records, imaging descriptions, and commonly used drug manuals.
Writing病程记录 (progress notes), nursing reports, or simple medical meeting minutes.
Exam Content:
Listening: Specialist consultation dialogues, medical lecture excerpts, detailed doctor-patient communication recordings.
Reading: Medical case analyses, clinical operation specifications, common disease diagnosis and treatment guidelines.
Writing: Completing medical records, writing medication recommendations, or doctor-patient communication records based on case information.
3. Level 3 (Advanced)
Ability Description:
Can skillfully use professional Chinese in complex medical scenarios, accurately understand advanced medical content, engage in in-depth academic exchanges and cross-cultural medical collaboration, and adapt to medical research, management, or high-end diagnosis and treatment needs.
Applicable Scenarios:
Discussion of difficult and complicated cases, speeches at international medical conferences, cross-cultural medical team collaboration.
Reading professional medical literature (e.g., SCI papers, pathological reports), formulating personalized treatment plans.
Writing medical research reports, academic papers, hospital management documents, etc.
Exam Content:
Listening: Speeches at international medical conferences, multidisciplinary consultation discussions, interviews on medical frontiers.
Reading: Chapters from medical monographs, latest diagnosis and treatment standards, genetic testing reports, and other professional materials.
Writing: Drafting treatment plans, medical literature reviews, or research project proposals based on complex medical conditions.
Additional Notes:
1. Scoring Criteria:
MCT uses quantitative scoring, with each level corresponding to different score ranges (typically a full score of 100, a passing score of approximately 60, and higher requirements for the advanced level).
2. Exam Features:
Focuses on medical scenarios, covering language application in clinical practice, research, and management.
Complements the HSK (General Chinese Proficiency Test), as HSK emphasizes daily communication while MCT focuses on medical professionalism.
3. Target Audience:
Medical international students, foreign healthcare workers, employees of multinational medical enterprises, etc.
