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Online Course for Doctors and Pharmacists: Communication Strategies for Patient Interactions (Nov 1 – Dec 22)
December 15, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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An event every week that begins at 6:00 pm on Tuesday and Thursday, repeating until December 22, 2022
This 8-week, online course will help you improve your communication skills for the OSCEs! You will study for 8 to 10 hours each week: up to 3 hours in online classes on Zoom and the rest through assigned coursework.
In this course, you will practice speaking and listening skills for OSCE topics, such as:
- Building rapport
- Conducting patient consultations
- Understanding patients’ concerns
- Offering advice and giving instructions
- Showing empathy
- Dealing with angry patients
- Disclosing medical errors
This course is helpful if you want to:
- Improve and practice your patient-centered communication skills for the OSCE with feedback from a language instructor
- Learn more about the relationship between patients and healthcare professionals in Canada
To attend, you must:
- Have access to the internet via mobile phone or computer
- Be able to attend the communication practice at the end of the course in person
- Have a minimum Canadian Language Benchmark of 6 (CLB 6) in all four skills
- Have had a CLB assessment within the last two years
For more information, or to register, please contact our Language Counsellor:
Andrea Taylor | 902-406-8656 | ataylor@isans.ca