Streamlined Health Communication Education
The Health Communication Training Series (HCTS) is a contemporary continuing education opportunity for current and aspiring healthcare and health communication professionals. The video series program consists of engaging, online, and self-paced courses on various topics that revolve around health communication. Easy-to-navigate courses in this series include high-quality video lectures, interactive activities, and opportunities to connect with colleagues in the field. Learners will earn a completion certificate and have the option to accrue continuing medical or nursing education credits upon successful completion of the course. Ready to learn with us? Browse through our courses now!
Available HCTS Courses
Mental Health, Stigma, and Communication featuring Dr. Heather Voorhees
This course aims to highlight the importance of communicating effectively about mental health, with a particular focus on how communication contributes to stigma that can influence how providers treat people with mental illnesses.
Health Communication with the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) Community featuring Dr. Chris Moreland
This course explores current health disparities affecting this diverse community and discusses ways to bridge the gap at a practical level. It includes strategies that healthcare workforce members can utilize to enhance communication with everyone.
Equity Science, Health Equity, and Big Data featuring Dr. Ashani Johnson-Turbes
This course examines the role of equity science in health communication to advance health equity. Lessons learned from this course will help learners conduct health communication and multidisciplinary research that advances health equity for all people.
TEPHI - Pandemic Preparedness Communication featuring Dr. Mike Mackert
This course covers the fundamental aspects of pandemic preparedness at an organizational level. Learners will discuss health communication best practices to be discussed and adopted before, during and after a pandemic.
Thinking Like a Health Communication Problem Solver featuring Dr. Mike Mackert and Jessica Hughes Wagner
This course is designed to benefit people that play various roles in the field of health communication. It will help learners think through common health communication challenges and come up with unique solutions backed up by research and practice.
Visual Design in Health Communication featuring Dr. Allison Lazard
This course reviews the importance of using visuals suitable for the audience of a health campaign. Learners will learn to make appropriate design choices, select the right visuals, and evaluate choices for optimum audience engagement.
Pain, Opioids, and Hard Conversations featuring Dr. Erin Donovan and Dr. Brandon Altillo
This course focuses on helping providers better understand the complexities of the conversation, examples of language they can adopt, and reflect an understanding of how these conversations can happen quickly given the realities of clinical care.
Disparities, Health Equity, and Health Communication featuring Dr. Sean Upshaw
This course focuses on how health communication can be a tool for understanding health disparities and promoting health equity. It highlights the role and influence of culture in health message design and promotion.
Emotions in Health Communication featuring Dr. Deena Kemp
This course introduces frameworks on emotion relevant to health communication. It will present research that highlights the role emotions play in how people process health information and discuss practical implications of that research in practical work.
Health Literacy and Clear Health Communication featuring Dr. Mike Mackert
This course covers the basics of health literacy, explores assessment tools and identifies the right tools and strategies to apply to meet your clients' unique health communication needs.
Patient Provider Communication featuring Dr. Erin Donovan
This course provides an overview of communication strategies between patients and providers, with a particular focus on how better communication can improve health outcomes and avoid provider burnout.
Audience-Centered Message Design featuring Dr. Mike Mackert
This course provides an overview of audience-centered message design, grounded in an approach to advertising that puts the consumer at the center of campaign design.
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