Course Overview
Develop workplace communication skills that support your success in healthcare careers. Working individually and in groups, learn to produce professional, clear, concise, and audience-appropriate messages including online and face-to-face modes of written and spoken communication. Apply strategies to develop successful job application packages, write bad-news as well as direct messages, and submit short reports. Practise communicating with videoconferencing tools to connect and collaborate with classmates and colleagues. Additionally, learn how to design effective presentations in groups and/or individually and practise public-speaking skills for various-sized groups. As a bridge to the next course in the communication series, students also begin to identify workplace-related issues that can be investigated in an applied research project during their first clinical placement. This includes problem identification, ways to research scientific literature and a plan for investigation. Evaluation includes a range of assignments that demonstrate the application of concepts covered.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
3.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful compleltion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Create effective job application packages.
- Demonstrate skills in public speaking for various-sized audiences.
- Prepare a professional presentation for in-person or online delivery.
- Effectively collaborate in teams, online and/or in person.
- Write clear, concise, and audience-centered messages.
- Write effective short reports.
- Edit documents to meet high literacy standards.
- Methodically search and appraise technical/scientific literature.
- Critically evaluate, summarize, and synthesize technical/scientific literature for a general audience.
- Write clear and concise questions and objectives for an applied research project.
Effective as of Winter 2022
Related Programs
Workplace Communication in ENPY (COMM 1181) is offered as a part of the following programs:
School of Health Sciences
- Electroneurophysiology
Diploma Full-time
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