Psychosocial Medicine

Catalog description

This course is designed to develop skills in the area of patient and family communication, patient counseling and education. Students will study cultural diversity and how it influences all aspects of medical practice and patient care. It educates students as to how both patients /providers' culturally informed beliefs/values can impact communication, decision making, compliance, and health outcomes. The course also instructs students to provide medical care to patients with consideration of ethnicity/race, gender identity, religion, human sexuality, substance abuse, disability, violence prevention, reaction to illness and end of life issues. Communication and counseling skills will be developed in laboratory sessions.