SCOM 674. Patient-Provider Communication and Advocacy

Credits 3.00 PeopleSoft Course ID: 013806

This course explores patient-provider communication from patient and provider perspectives. Advocacy can play a leading role for providers and patients with implications for decision making, mutual support and trust. Students will examine health patient-provider interaction, health decision-making, empowerment strategies, key impacts of managed care, salient factors that shape patient outcomes and selected theoretical frameworks for explaining health patient provider communication.