Medical Humanities and Communication Skills
Empathy-driven care — core skills for healthcare professionals
Course Overview
This programme equips healthcare professionals with the core communication skills and humanistic literacy needed to deliver patient-centred care. Alongside clinical knowledge, it focuses on empathy, medical ethics, patient psychology, cross-cultural awareness and the management of the doctor-patient relationship. Through immersive practice, participants develop communication that is more empathetic, professional and adaptive — enabling effective empathy and precise decision-making within complex clinical scenarios.
Learning Objectives
Develop humanistic values and a patient-centred mindset
Build trust through effective patient-doctor communication
Apply cross-cultural skills to serve diverse patient populations
Strengthen empathy and emotional intelligence in clinical practice
Apply medical ethics for empathetic and ethical decision-making
Teaching Methods
High-fidelity case-based teaching
Role-play simulation training
Interactive in-depth dialogue
Structured practical tasks
High-fidelity case-based teaching
Role-play simulation training
Interactive in-depth dialogue
Structured practical tasks
Curriculum
| # | Module |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1. Medical humanities and professional identity 1. Medical humanities and professional identity |
| 2 | 2. Patient-doctor communication skills 2. Patient-doctor communication skills |
| 3 | 3. Patient psychology and emotional support 3. Patient psychology and emotional support |
| 4 | 4. Medical ethics and empathetic care 4. Medical ethics and empathetic care |
| 5 | 5. Cross-cultural communication 5. Cross-cultural communication |
| 6 | 6. Wellbeing for healthcare professionals 6. Wellbeing for healthcare professionals |