ENG 576 - Writing in the Medical and Health Professions

Course Description: This course critically examines the current state of medical writing in professional medical and health contexts and explores the multiple practical stategies healthcare professionals use to communicate in multiple settings. The course asks students to evaluate and propose best practices for texts in medical contexts such as patient-doctor interactions, insurance documentation, labeling and the like. Extra attention is paid to ethical questions about how writing and texts act rhetorically as tools of communication that confer power to their users. Students exit the course with a base of knowledge that will allow them to develop and strengthen their own professional communication practices.

Credit Hours: 3

Corequisites Courses: None
Prerequisite Courses: None
Additional Restriction/ Requirements: None
Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated

ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

Equivalent Courses: None
Undergraduate Crosslisting: None
Additional Course Fees: None
Course Attribute: None

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