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Foundational Skills for Communicating About Health
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14 hours 
english
Online - Self Paced
course
University of Michigan
About Foundational Skills for Communicating About Health
Effective communication is a core skill that nearly every health professional will need and use during their careers. Yet, few health professionals receive even basic training in how to design communications to be clear and successful. As “foundational skills,” the content in this course can be applied to both oral and written communication, within and beyond health.
Learners will develop the skills to: analyze and tailor a communication effort for different audiences, develop clear messages, create logical and compelling stories, understand and apply important considerations with language as well as nonverbal communication. This course is valuable and appropriate for both beginning and experienced health professionals who need to communicate effectively with other professionals, patients, policymakers, or the broader public.. Content is relevant to public health professionals, clinicians of all types (medical, nursing, dentists, social work, etc.), health advocates, and scientists and researchers in any health domain..
What You Will Learn?
- Define and collect important information about a target audience in order to make appropriate decisions about the communication effortSelect an audience-appropriate communications goalCraft a clear, concise core message for a communication effortDeploy at least two different types of narrative structures to support communications about health topics.