HSC 6520 - Interprofessional Education I: Collaboration, Communication and Cultural Competency

Course Description: (no change)

This course will introduce students to interprofessional practice (IPP), IPP core competencies, scope of practice, and integrative primary health in the areas of client-focused disease prevention, health promotion, and health literacy. Interprofessional practice skills in teamwork and collaboration will be developed in areas of mutual trust and respect, conflict resolution, and giving/accepting feedback.

Interprofessional practice skills in communication will be developed in areas of verbal, nonverbal, and digital communication; client/family/stakeholder communication; and mindfulness, self-awareness, and empathetic listening and responsiveness. This course will also develop cultural competency through the exploration of student values, experiences, perceptions, stereotypes, and biases and an understanding of models to elicit a patient’s perspective on health and illness. Students will be able to identify social determinants of health and explain their connection to health inequities.

Lecture
S/U Graded

Prerequisite(s):

Prerequisites:

PA Program: Admittance to the Carroll University MSPAS program.

MOT Program: Admittance to the Carroll University MOT program.

DPT Program: Entry-level Graduate Program in Physical Therapy standing and satisfactory completion of previous semesters of the professional program.

MAT Program: Good standing in the Athletic Training Program.