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76-794 Medical Communications

Units:	9.0
Department:	English
Cross-listed:	76-494
Related URLs:	http://hss.cmu.edu/HTML/departments/engl

Medical Communications is designed for all those with an interest in how medical and health care information is constructed and transferred between experts health care providers, educators, researchers, patient support groups and patients who are often not experts but need a thorough understanding of the information to make important health care decisions. The course is appropriate for you if you are planning a career in any health-care related profession or if, as a writer, you want to guild your writing and communication skills in a specific, well-defined discourse community. We will identify how basic rhetorical strategies such as how experts view their audiences and how information is structured and delivered operate within the boundaries of a specific community, as well as how technology alters the way that information is both constructed and distributed. Early in the semester, you will choose a condition or illness that you will research via traditional sources such as journals but also extending into World Wide Web sites and chat rooms and direct contact with an appropriate clinic or patient support group in the Pittsburgh area. Your final project will be the creation of a document a Web site, a magazine article, a brochure or booklet, or a slide presentation that will fill a specific need in the patient group that you have chosen. Throughout the course, you will 1) explore the interactions of current theory and practice in medical communication, 2) study an historical overview of medical communication, and 3) explore the provider/patient relationship from rhetorical standpoint.

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