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Apr 23, 2024
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Catalog 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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MEDA 119 Intercultural Awareness in Health Care3 credits
This course introduces written and oral communication techniques for patient relations, emphasizing professionalism and cultural awareness. The course is designed to help students explore, understand, and appreciate the challenges posed by cultural and ethnically diverse patient populations.
Prerequisites: MEDA 115 , MEDA 116 , and MEDA 118
Quarters Offered: Fall and Spring
Student Outcomes/Competencies:
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Communicate effectively to patients with culturally diverse backgrounds
- Discuss the intercultural implications of professional communication among team members in a medical setting
- Demonstrate empathy, active listening, and nonverbal communication
- Use feedback techniques to obtain patient information, including reflection, clarification, and restatement
- Coach patients appropriately considering cultural diversity, developmental life stage, and communicaton barriers
- Identify the beliefs and traditions of diverse patient populations in terms of health promotion and wellness, illness and disease prevention, and health restoration
Total Hours: 30 Lecture Hours: 30
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