Medical Voice Over Narration for Education

Physician education and training use medical narration to accompany their anatomy, physiology or eLearning videos. Hospital videos, sometimes animated, also use voice over talent as a crucial component for teaching physicians about new medications, alternative treatments, or more effective ways to interact with patients.

Many Health Care Professionals (HCPs) like surgeons, and oncology pharmacists, for example, want to narrate their own material, but the problem is that their narrations are often very difficult to understand, full of awkward pauses and ‘ums’, repeated information, inconsistent volume due to inexperience with microphone technique, and more, all of which is very distracting for the listener. This is why a professional medical narrator, like Debbie, fills this important role of teacher and coach to impart scientific knowledge and how it’s being used to make a difference in their lives and the lives of their patients.

This specialized genre of voiceover requires a voiceover talent who is an expert, a pro’s pro, one who understands how to deliver complex, technical information in an easy to listen to, yet professional manner, whether narrating videos about medical products or how augmented and virtual reality apps are used for research and training.

A warm female voice, that sounds like a friend you trust, can explain something vital that a person might think is beyond their understanding. Debbie is able to be compassionate when needed and authoritative at other times, in speaking to the medical professionals, scientists, and students who are watching scientific visualizations to understand the many complex and hard-to-imagine processes in the human body. Because of her varied and vast experience voicing countless health system narrations Debbie is an expert with tongue-twisting terminology and is sensitive to the accuracy of pronunciations and the understanding of subtext. Is a downward signaling cascade a good thing or not? That all depends on the context!

Patient education viewed on hospital TV depends on voiceovers to communicate topical and seasonal messages. These patient videos also help promote products, services, and procedures to patients as they’re waiting in an office. Patient videos are a valuable communication and marketing platform. They present a diverse scope of information, from offering disease management support, to surgical recovery education, lifestyle and behavior change education, and information on medications. Patient videos extend the reach and streamline the efforts of care providers both in their offices and their patient’s homes. Insurance how-to videos, for example, are extremely helpful to educate patients visiting healthcare systems and academic hospitals.

Educating family members and caregivers, as well as patients, is the benefit of using patient videos for home healthcare. The medical home is a philosophy of primary care that is patient-centered, comprehensive, team-based, coordinated, accessible, and focused on quality and safety. Narrations need to be straightforward, empathic and paced properly so viewers can absorb important information. These videos are also valuable because they can be viewed and reviewed as needed, without necessarily having to call upon medical professionals for clarification. It is a source of comfort to have vital information about their own care easily accessible. Whether the topic is what to expect in advance of an operation, medication guidelines, or postoperative care, these videos help patients and those caring for a loved one.

Debbie’s depth of experience in medical voiceover means she can impart highly technical and medically dense text in a way that is clear and informative, yet easy to comprehend. These projects require a skilled voice over artist who can walk a fine line between sounding like the subject matter expert, while still being engaging to listen to.