IPH 261 - Patient-Centered Healthcare

3 credit hours - 45 hours of lecture; one term.
Explore healthcare delivery from a patient-centered perspective. Learn to account for social, ethnic, and religious sensitivities in the development, evaluation, and implementation of therapeutic goals. Weigh strategies for patient education, counseling, and preventive measures in the areas of diversity and healthcare delivery to these populations. Issues include the recognition of boundaries in personal relations within the workplace and balancing role fidelity with personal integrity and cultural humility.

Prerequisite(s): MDA 100  and PSY 111 .

Corequisite(s): HUS 275  and IPH 240 .

Note: Take this course in conjunction with volunteer service/participation hours during HUS 275 - Human Services Practicum , in community service at underserved medical clinics and treatment facilities under direction of faculty clinicians and licensed human services professionals. Typically offered OL; fall and spring terms.

Course Outcomes:

1. Assess the role of a patient’s spiritual beliefs when considering therapeutic interventions.

2. Discuss the importance of a patient’s emotional response to a particular diagnosis.

3. Discuss how patients and families cope with issues such as death, dying, and loss.

4. Discuss patient and family response to illness, injury, and stress.

5. Understand the principles of violence identification and prevention.

6. Identify methods to enable patients to make substantial changes to their lifestyle to promote better health.

7. Describe ways to encourage patients across all ethnicities to be active participants in their own healthcare, aiming for the goal of a healthy outcome.

8. Develop awareness of the constantly changing healthcare system and the impact of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic health disparities on healthcare delivery.

9. Self-analyze personal values and develop skills to avoid stereotyping.

10. Articulate the healthcare needs of the socially isolated patient, while advocating for the proper healthcare services for that patient.

11. Give examples of how lower socioeconomic status is linked to various disease states, poor access to healthcare, and lack of awareness of local resources.

12. Outline the various ways in which the layperson seeks medical information.

13. Describe how internet resources can enable or disable a patient from seeking proper healthcare.

14. Understand the impact of various healthcare delivery systems on the overall practice of medicine in the US.