PrintIEHP - Professional Communications for International Health Professionals
Professional Communication for Internationally Educated Health Professionals (IEHP)
This program is designed to assist you as an internationally educated health professional to- improve your communication for entry into professional practice
- improve your pronunciation
- expand your health and idiomatic vocabulary
- improve your written skills for documentation
- increase your awareness of communication styles
- increase your understanding of culturally expected behaviours of the Canadian health care system
This performance-based course includes
- communication practice (language and behaviour) of role-plays: clients, families and health teams
- coaching of role-plays
- filming of rehearsed and unrehearsed role-plays
- use of standardized patients/actors
- feedback and self-reflection
Participants must have professional
qualifications from their country of origin in at least one of the following registered health
professions:
- Nursing
- Medicine
- Midwifery
- Pharmacy
- Physical Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
Please check back throughout the summer for updates on when the next session of the IEHP course will be held.
Further information about eligibility and program requirements is located in the attached brochure. You may also contact Trina Ojo at 604.599.2026 or by email at iehp@kwantlen.ca.
To give you a glimpse at the human face of the course, please watch the following brief testimonials from graduates of the course.
Testimonial Videos