Healthcare Communications-Spring 2025

April 7, 2025 to May 21, 2025
Earn a professional certificate in Healthcare Communications from a top-ranked research university. Learn from leaders in the field. Study online, full- or part-time. Join the UChicago community and experience the difference.
 
We're thrilled to introduce our latest endeavor: the certificate program in Healthcare Communications. In today's rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, effective communication is paramount. That's why we've curated a comprehensive online program to empower professionals like you with the skills and insights needed to excel in healthcare communication roles. This three-course program is now open for registration.
 
The healthcare industry is in a constant state of change. It needs skilled writers to adapt swiftly and know how to speak to a variety of audiences across verticals. Health communications professionals write for patient and public health information materials; clarify misinformation about health and disease; work toward increasing health literacy; help level out inequalities in healthcare; and provide effective, user-friendly data visualization to convey key messages. Learn the skills you need to specialize in this growing field with an online Healthcare Communications certificate from the University of Chicago Professional Education.

Learn more at our website!

Target Audience

This activity is designed for healthcare professionals, including medical writers, marketers, patient educators, and communication specialists, who create patient education materials, healthcare advertising, and continuing education content for diverse audiences.

Learning Objectives

After this activity, participants will be able to:
  • Use healthcare communication principles to design audience-specific compliant content;
  • Apply a range of concepts, including health communication principles, persuasive techniques, and the critical appraisal of scientific research to communicate with different audiences;
  • Develop persuasive communication strategies for diverse healthcare audiences;
  • Integrate industry regulations and ethical standards into the creation of patient education, marketing, and healthcare advertising materials;
  • Create effective healthcare communications through authentic, real-world samples and formats while following professional guidelines and best practices;
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of health communication strategies in improving patient understanding and engagement.
Additional information
ACGME/ABMS Core Competencies: 
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Professionalism
For more information, please contact:
CME Coordinator Contact Name: 
Karine Bravais
CME Coordinator Contact Email: 
kbravais@uchicago.edu
CME Coordinator Contact Phone: 
773.795.8273
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Available credit: 
  • 56.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 56.00 Participation
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ACCESSIBILITY The University of Chicago is committed to providing equal access appropriate to need and circumstances and complies fully with legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you are in need of special accommodation, please contact our office at 773.795.8273 or via email at kbravais@uchicago.edu.
 
 The University of Chicago reserves the right to cancel or postpone this activity due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event this activity must be cancelled or postponed, the registration fee will be refunded; however, The University of Chicago is not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline/travel/lodging agencies.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PLANNING COMMITTEE
  Karine Bravais, MA, MS
  Director of Professional Development Programs
  University of Chicago Professional Education (UCPE)
 
 

 
  Mary Morley Cohen, PhD
  Managing Director
  University of Chicago Professional Education (UCPE)
 
 


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Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships prior to the start of the activity.

Additionally, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
Physician Credit
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 56 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Other Participant Credit
Other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
 
Please Note: The credit claiming process will close three months after the activity ends. Requests to claim credit after three months will be subject to additional fees.
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