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The purpose of this study is investigating target needs of doctors to develope an ESP course for medical students in Korea. 213 medical doctors’ survey were analyzed. The anonymous survey consisted of parts pertaining to personal information, doctors’ English needs, and open comments about English education for medical students. A total of 97 functions categorized into 15 notions attained from doctor’s common tasks were used in the survey to rank them in order of importance. SPSS Ver.18.0 was used to produce descriptive statistics for the totals, means, frequencies, standard deviations as well as the percentages of the survey items. The degree of importance of 15 notions and 97 functions was ranked based on the mean values. T-tests and ANOVA were used in comparing results among different groups of doctors. The main findings of this study show that English skills are mostly needed in doing research or participating in other academic activities and in seeing patients. More specifically, notions such as ‘research,’ ‘communication with patients and their families,’ ‘managing documents,’ each ranked 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. It was found that speaking ranked first, followed by listening, writing, and reading in order of importance. These results also show differences in people’s needs depending on factors such as living experience in English speaking countries, the duration of employment, or the type of medical institute.