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Online Training Available on Addressing Health Literacy

• 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

   

1. Register with TRAIN, the distance-learning resource for public health professionals sponsored by the Public Health Foundation with support from HRSA. (If you have already registered with TRAIN, you can just sign on at the Member Login and proceed to Step 2).

    

• Go to TRAIN (not a U.S. Government Web site)

   

• From the left column, select your location and click "Create Account"

   

• Follow the instructions to create your TRAIN account

   

2. Select the course, Unified Health Communication: Addressing Health Literacy, Cultural Competency, and Limited English Proficiency.

    

• Select "Course Search" from the buttons at the top of the page

   

• Select "By Course ID" from the left column

   

• Enter 1010510 to take the course for credit OR enter 1010508 to take the course for no credit

   

• Select your credit type and organization (or no credit)

   

• Click "Launch" to start the course