Multicultural Healthcare

Catalog description

This course discusses the variety of cultural factors that can affect patient-practitioner interaction and offers tools on improving communication with patients. Students learn about the definition of culture and how we can use this knowledge to communicate more effectively with patients. The course explores and discusses examples of social determinants of health and health disparities as well as healthcare concerns of the aging population. The importance of cultural humility and the effects of stigma on patients' health outcomes are also discussed. Instruction occurs in didactic lectures, online discussion posts and a reflective assignment, completion of an online course from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and patient case related activities.