Teaching Communication Strategies with Patients Teaching communication strategies with patients to develop effective and caring interactions between healthcare providers and patients (Wazlawick, 1967, Palo Alto School).
Teaching Active Listening Techniques Teaching active listening techniques to embrace the patient's narrative about their illness, enabling the co-construction of an illness story worth living, and ensuring the story of the illness is as dignified as possible (Carl Rogers, theorist of Effective Communication).
Course Prerequisites
No prerequisites required
Teaching Methods
Classroom practices that allow students to develop empathy with patients, such as role-playing, problem-solving, text analysis, poetry and haiku analysis, analyzing paintings by various artists, and inviting students to write a text, poem, or story from brief prompts, as well as dream writing (Bolton, 1999). These practices help students look beyond the surface and understand what lies beneath (Zannini, Narrative Medicine)
Assessment Methods
role-playing, problem-solving, and text analysis with a final evaluation
Contents
A web-based community for tutors and internship assistants at the University. This community, created in 2018, fosters professional growth and engagement to implement the Core Curriculum for Physical Therapy (based on the 2011 World Congress for Physical Therapy document and the 2010 AIFI document). Each academic year, a community is established to allow students to gain experience.
