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About the Course

Effective communication is a core skill that nearly every health professional will need and use during their careers. Yet, few health professionals receive even basic training in how to design communications to be clear and successful. As “foundational skills,” the content in this course can be applied to both oral and written communication, within and beyond health. Learners will develop the skills to: analyze and tailor a communication effort for different audiences, develop clear messages, create logical and compelling stories, understand and apply important considerations with language as well as nonverbal communication. This course is valuable and appropriate for both beginning and experienced health professionals who need to communicate effectively with other professionals, patients, policymakers, or the broader public.. Content is relevant to public health professionals, clinicians of all types (medical, nursing, dentists, social work, etc.), health advocates, and scientists and researchers in any health domain.....

Top reviews

VA

Apr 5, 2020

Dr Brian is an excellent teacher with precise and discrete ideas amalgamated together so well to get an overall core of the communication skills was way too easier and clear. Thank you so much.

JJ

May 17, 2023

This class gave me so many useful tips! Thank you for the excellent instruction and the thoughtful way the class was organized. I cannot say enough good things about this instructor. Well done.

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By M S

Nov 8, 2019

This was honestly the best MOOc I attended until now. I feel it will have direct implications on my career. It had clear messages and enough examples and assignments to allow you to practice what you learn.

By Alberto S I G

Apr 6, 2020

It was great, give me a lot of new and easy skills, I complete recommend this course for all kind of professionals

By Chukwudi M I

May 28, 2020

AWESOME. THANKS A LOT

By Leanne C

Jul 22, 2020

The course is good, peer reviews are not if they count toward final score. Peer reviews are too variable to mean much.

By Grigorios K

Nov 2, 2020

This course will help you build real-life communication skills. An amazing instructor will help you to communicate clear messages in a more effective way through a curriculum that is well organized, easy-to-follow and constantly interesting.

By Smita P

Jun 13, 2021

It was an amazing course to learn from the experienced faculty.I am glad that i had made the right choice.I am a Researcher in Service Marketing in Public Health domain and i am sure it will be helpful in my Phd work. Thank you

By Vinit A

Apr 6, 2020

Dr Brian is an excellent teacher with precise and discrete ideas amalgamated together so well to get an overall core of the communication skills was way too easier and clear. Thank you so much.

By MaryAnne B

Feb 6, 2023

Excellent course and excellent instructor. What I learned in this class will remain with me and will be considered every time I write anything!

By Christien Y R G

Sep 12, 2021

I have learned a lot in this course. It is not boring because they provide not only readings but also video. Thank you so much!

By Priya A

May 5, 2020

Very helpful!

By Iram S

Oct 31, 2022

The skills taught in this course are very reliable and practical. Although most of the assignments include health related subjects, but the scope of the course encompasses many different fields.

The instructor Brian has really made a difficult and vast topic understandable for many strata by breaking it into small chunks, full of practical examples.

I give it 4/5 only because the assignments sometimes felt very tedious to complete; going through lengthy research article full of jargons, to make them understand and communicate in brief simple languages. But they might be fun for a lot & a challenge for the others.

By GHADEER A A A

Oct 31, 2022

It was a very interesting and informative experience. I would love to enrol in more courses given by the same instructor. I highly recommend this course for anyone who wants to start learning about parts of the communication process that we need in the healthcare field. Thank you for all the efforts put into constructing this course, and looking for more in the future. All the best!

By DEBOTRI B

Jun 23, 2021

Interesting and insightful.

By Nicole M

Dec 16, 2019

I loved the Half Life practice - the rest was a bit redundant for me and my background - that is not to say it is irrelevant for others

By BANGURA M S

Mar 14, 2022

I have gained a lot from this course. I learnt ideas in this course that I did not learn during my four-years as a journalism student in my undergraduate. I am grateful. Thank you,Prof.

I deeply enjoyed the practical session on how to present a message with consistency from 1 minute,30 seconds and 8 seconds.

You made me actualized my dream of earning a certficate in Health Communication. Thank you.

Best wishes

Mohamed S Bangura (a Sierra Leonean)

PhD student-Clinical Medicine(Health Management)-China

Email: okentumohamed@gmail.com

By Mariana J

Feb 15, 2021

Professor Brian Zikmund-Fisher does a great justice to what we I expected from the course. Simple, yet very interesting. Practical and, honestly, useful in many other scenarios outside the Healthcare world. This is the sort of course most of us should have been exposed to, during University years. Hope an more intermediate level course comes soon.

By Jennifer

May 18, 2023

This class gave me so many useful tips! Thank you for the excellent instruction and the thoughtful way the class was organized. I cannot say enough good things about this instructor. Well done.

By K R V

Jun 19, 2021

thank you very much for this skills gain course,this course is very helpful to increase my communicating skills.a lot of thanks to instructer and team coursera.thank you very much.

By Prabhat G

Jun 27, 2021

It is a well designed course and has helped us understand the basics and structuring required for Health Communication

By Latha N

Jun 24, 2021

Very well executed... Core message, inverted triangle model, ABT. ...

Thank You very much Dr.Brian

By Juan C G C

Apr 2, 2021

Excelente curso, da herramientas muy buenas para las bases de la comunicación.

By Whitney H

May 18, 2021

A great course that helps simplify messages for complicated topics.

By Subhashini S

Jul 29, 2021

Found it valuable, explained clearly and in simple terms

By Muhammad S M A

Oct 3, 2022

excellent course on communication skills

By Marie C

Oct 23, 2021

Excelente,gracias por lo compartido!!!