SOCIOL 140
Negotiating Medical Care: Physician-Patient Conversations
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Overview of how physician-patient interaction influences kinds of treatment patients receive. Focus on routine primary care medical visits and study of how some of our most significant health-care epidemics are affected by communication that takes place in these everyday medical visits. Topics include how communication between clinicians and patients has changed over years, normative structure of medical visit, and how communication adds to series of public health problems currently faced. Students learn how to analyze actual interactions between physicians and patients with hands-on exercises to give them tools to examine these conversations. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Most Helpful Review
Spring 2024 - I thought the overall class was straightforward, with 5 exercises relating to readings/lectures/video recordings as well as two multiple choice exams. The jeopardy reviews our TA's went over during discussions as well as the study guides provided by the Professor were more than enough to prepare yourself for the exams. There are assigned readings, but discussions serve to break these chapters down to ease the workload of the class. I would recommend attending every discussion as well as memorizing the study guides. She also gives extra credit at the beginning of every lecture if you answer one of her questions relating to previous class material. The class isn't as difficult as you would imagine and the Professor was solid in her efforts.
Spring 2024 - I thought the overall class was straightforward, with 5 exercises relating to readings/lectures/video recordings as well as two multiple choice exams. The jeopardy reviews our TA's went over during discussions as well as the study guides provided by the Professor were more than enough to prepare yourself for the exams. There are assigned readings, but discussions serve to break these chapters down to ease the workload of the class. I would recommend attending every discussion as well as memorizing the study guides. She also gives extra credit at the beginning of every lecture if you answer one of her questions relating to previous class material. The class isn't as difficult as you would imagine and the Professor was solid in her efforts.
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