Program: Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Health Communication
Department of Communication
College of Liberal Arts
Neff Hall 230 ~ 260-481-6825
Michelle Kelsey, Chair
Steven Carr, Graduate Program Director
The post-baccalaureate certificate in Health Communication is designed to educate students to become better communicators with the healthcare sector. Students will learn about epidemiology, health communication, and organizational leadership. Students will have the opportunity to focus their education in family health, public health, health policy and health organizations. This post-baccalaureate certificate prepares students to work in various sectors of health care and will enhance current health care employees’ communication skills.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Work with individuals of various cultural backgrounds to maintain a climate of mutual respect and shared values.
- Use the knowledge of one’s own role to aid medical professionals in appropriate assessing and addressing the health care needs of patients and promoting and advancing the health of populations.
- Communicate with patients, families, communities, and professionals in health and other fields in a responsive and responsible manner that supports a team approach to the promotion and maintenance of health and the prevention and treatment of disease.
- Apply relationship-building values and the principles of team dynamics to perform effectively in different team roles to plan, deliver, and evaluate patient/population-centered care, and population health programs.
- Understand, develop, and effectively communicate policies that are safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.
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