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The medical and nursing international settings use English as the shared medium of course delivery at present time. M.o.H.P. teaching staff are not supposed to have no problems in their EFL oral production when doing their jobs. Nevertheless, it was observed that pertaining oral production was not up to overall acceptable levels. Thus, the study used a mixed method approach in order to attain the aim of investigating this observation and relating aspects, if any. A four-scale Likert-type questionnaire and a semi-structured interview as tools were used to collect data from seven practiced teaching staff (ages 37-59) delivering courses at the M.o.H.P. Technical Health Institute, Egypt. Findings revealed that the participants’ vast majority (n. 6) had good oral production levels, except in the area of word number production. The findings also revealed they (n.6) lacked knowledge and use of the prosodic features of pronunciation, such as word stress, intonation, rhythm, timing, and pause. Recommendations comprised presenting general language courses in order to increase word production and do speaking activities and attending conversation classes regulated by the M.o.H.P. Besides, recommendations incorporated attending phenology classes and practicing the language more with native speakers. (Published abstract)