Humanism in Health and Healthcare
The course Humanism in Health and Healthcare provides foundational theoretical and practical knowledge and skills to help address the complex and multi-dimensional nature of health and illness.
This course offers you the opportunity to plan practice humanistic techniques to assist patients during times of illness or stress and provides humanistic strategies to help you work collaboratively with patients to ensure positive outcomes and health behavior changes.
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There are 13 modules to complete, which include:
- Module 1. History of Medicine, Modernism, and the Emergence of the Biomedical Model
- Module 2. The Epidemiological Transition and the Humanistic (Re)turn
- Module 3. Medicalization and social control
- Module 4. The Biopsychosocial Model
- Module 5. The Birth of Bioethics and the Evolution of Humanism
- Module 6. The Science of Empathy
- Module 7. Building Empathy: Practices of the Senses
- Module 8.. Empathy in Practice: Narrative Medicine/Narrative Communication
- Module 9. Self Care: Caring for Self to Care for Others
- Module 10. Problems of Otherness and Dilemmas of Difference
- Module 11. Marginalization*
- Module 12. From Cultural Competency to Cultural Humility: Habits of Respectful Curiosity
- Module 13. The Future of Humanism in Health and Health Care.
*For module 11, you are to choose at least five lessons to complete from those available, based on your interests as well as your educational and professional needs)
The completion time for this course is estimated to be 69 hours which includes 39 hours of didactics and curated resources and 30 hours of work participating in activities and quizzes to assist the student in the synthesis of the materials. This course is equivalent to 2 credit hours.
At the end of each module, there is a practice quiz with multiple-choice questions. At the end of the course, after you’ve completed each lesson, quiz, and learning activity, you’ll have access to a final exam with multiple-choice questions and a chance to evaluate this course. Once you’ve passed that last test, you will be able to download a certificate of completion from NextGenU.org. We keep all of your personal information confidential, never sell any of your information, and only use anonymized data for research purposes. We are also happy to report your testing information and share your work with anyone (your school, employer, etc.) at your request.