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Free On-Line Health Literacy Training for Providers

Unified Health Communication 101: Addressing Health Literacy, Cultural Competency, and Limited English Proficiency is a free on-line learning experience that will help you:

  • improve your patient communication skills
  • increase your awareness and knowledge of the three main factors that affect your communication with patients: health literacy, cultural competency and low English proficiency
  • implement patient-centered communication practices that demonstrate cultural competency and appropriately address patients with limited health literacy and low English proficiency

You may choose to take the course for credit (CEU/CE, CHES, CME, CNE) or not for credit.

The course has five modules and is estimated to take a total of 5 hours to complete. You may complete the course at your own pace.

More information regarding this free course can be found here