Layer Up for Success! A Tale of Weaving a Multi-modal Health Literacy Curriculum Into a Clinical Education Program

Description: At Vanderbilt Health, the patient-education department and dietetic internship program have developed a novel multimodal and interdisciplinary health literacy curriculum that’s been integrated into the internship’s competency-based coursework. Designed to facilitate skill acquisition as interns progress from didactic classes to supervised practice, this highly successful curriculum can be adapted for a variety of settings and groups. In this session, presenters will share their curriculum, which includes health literacy, teach-back, experiential learning lab simulations, narrative medicine, motivational interviewing, and radical listening. They’ll also explore how the curriculum is adaptable to other settings, and discuss its relevance to learners, educators, and organizational leaders.

Objectives:

1. List the three main health literacy questions that are essential to clear communication and patient understanding (What does the patient need to do? Why do they need to do it? And how do they do it?) 

2. Describe the benefits of a multi-modal, interdisciplinary approach to health literacy training. 

3. List three things they can do to advance health literacy in their own organizations.

CE credits: Earn 1 credit in (CHES/MCHES), (CNE), (CPH)