Spring 2022  |  WRIT 3405W Section 001: Humanistic Healthcare and Communication (54641)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022
Wed, Fri 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Mayo Bldg/Additions C231
Enrollment Status:
Open (58 of 85 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Humanistic Healthcare and Communication focuses on critically therapeutic patient-provider communication. Topics surveyed include: health literacy, cultural and risk communication, health communication, narrative theory and digital medicine. These topics are brought to bear on three historical moments in the history of medicine when humanism entered or was displaced in medical practice. Students will be exposed to writings, visual arts and music created by physicians and nurses throughout history and write critical essays on these. These will prep students for the new MCAT exam. A variety of guest lecturers from the medical profession will discuss case histories that demonstrate the course themes in practice.
Class Description:
This course is designed for students preparing for careers in health care; it explores the interrelationships between Humanism, Communication and Empathy. A focus is on how humanism models the art of medicine and when in history, humanism recedes. Many believe that we are about to lose humanistic medicine as technology eclipses practitioner-patient relationships. This course offers interdisciplinary perspectives by having experts from a variety of disciplines approach communication and value-centered health care from their areas of expertise. Students will analyze and evaluate passages from social sciences and humanities. The course material matches the change in focus of MCAT 2015, the Medical College Admission Test.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54641/1223
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
11 November 2013

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