Subject: Family & Community Medicine
Course Number: 170.02
Course Title: Compassionate Care: The Art of Healing Communication
Units: 1
School: Medicine
Department: Family And Community Medicine

Course Description: Guest speakers will share lectures, stories, clinical pearls, and personal experiences to promote discussions for deeper understanding & skill-building in communication, engagement, compassion and connection with patients. Topics may include: empathic listening; tips for communicating with compassion; using the BATHE technique in challenging dialogues; patient stories as narrative experiences; medical humanities; spirituality; grief and loss; mindful presence; Impostor Syndrome; and more.
Prerequisites: None
Restrictions: First & second year students in all Schools are welcome: Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Dentistry, and Physical Therapy
Activities: Direct - Lecture, Student - Lecture

Instructor of Record: S. Khayam-Bashi
Additional Instructor(s): T. McNalley
May the student choose the instructor for this course? No
Does enrollment in this course require instructor approval? No

Quarter(s) Offered: Fall
Course Grading Convention: P/NP (Pass/Not Pass) or S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
Graduate Division course: No
Is this a web-based online course? Yes
Is this an Interprofessional Education (IPE) course? No
May students in the Graduate Division (i.e. pursuing Master or PhD) enroll in this course? Yes
Repeat course for credit? Yes