Catalog 2024-2025 
    
    Sep 16, 2024  
Catalog 2024-2025

MEDA 119 Intercultural Communication in Health Care

5 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 116  and MEDA 121   

Course Outcomes
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 non-verbal communication
  •  Use feedback techniques to obtain patient information, including reflection, clarification, and restatement
  • Coach patients appropriately considering cultural diversity, developmental life stage, and communication barriers
  • Identify the beliefs and traditions of diverse patient populations in terms of health promotion and wellness, illness and disease prevention, and health restoration

Program Outcomes
This course teaches to the following program outcome:

  • be prepared to obtain an entry-level position in their field

Total Hours: 50 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 50