Online Course for Doctors and Pharmacists: Communication Strategies for OSCEs

This 8-week, online course will help you improve your communication skills for the OSCEs! You will study for 8 to 10 hours each week: up to 3 hours in online classes on Zoom and the rest through assigned coursework.

In this course, you will practice speaking and listening skills for OSCE topics, such as:

• Building rapport
• Conducting patient consultations
• Understanding patients’ concerns
• Offering advice and giving instructions
• Showing empathy
• Dealing with angry patients
• Disclosing medical errors

This course is helpful if you want to:

• Improve and practice your patient-centered communication skills for the OSCE with feedback from a language instructor
• Learn more about the relationship between patients and healthcare professionals in Canada

To attend, you must:

• Have access to the internet via mobile phone or computer
• Be able to attend the communication practice at the end of the course in person
• Have a minimum Canadian Language Benchmark of 6 (CLB 6) in all four skills
• Have had a CLB assessment within the last two years

For more information, or to register, please contact our Language Counsellor:

Andrea Taylor  |  902-406-8656  |  ataylor@old.isans.ca