Professional Communication (IEHPs)

Internationally Educated Health Professionals (IEHPs)

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For entry into bridging/refresher programs and professional practice do you need 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 behaviors of the Canadian health care system?

What’s the Approach?

This is a performance-based course. The performance based approach 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.

The content is organized in a hierarchy of increasing communicative complexity.

Who is elligible?

Internationally Educated Health Professionals who:

• have been assessed using the Canadian Language Benchmark Placement Test at the CLB 6 – 9 levels with a minimum score of 6 in Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening
• can make a commitment to attend the program and are able to attend class Monday – Friday for 15 weeks.
• Are Canadian citizens or landed immigrants.

Course Location

The course will be held at:

Kwantlen Polytechnic University
12666 - 72nd Avenue
Surrey, BC

Course Length

The course is 15 weeks long and will run for:
5 days a week for 4 hours per day
Time: 8am – 12 noon

Course Start and End Dates
Course 1: January 5th - April 16th, 2009

Course 2: May 4th - August 14th, 2009

Course 3: September 7th - December 18th, 2009

Course Fees
There are no tuition fees for these courses.

Kwantlen Polytechnic University Application and Other Student Fees: $105

How to Apply

Step 1
Take the Canadian Language Benchmark Placement Test (CLBPT) at any one of the following locations. The test takes 2 hours:

Surrey Language Assessment Centre
202-7337 137 Street
Surrey, BC
V3W 1A4
(604) 507-4150
Fee: $100

Immigrant Services Society of BC, Language College
# 501 - 333 Terminal Ave.
Vancouver, BC V6A 2L7
(604) 684-2561 ext. 1182
Contact: Lois Armerding This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Website: http://www.issbc.org
Fee: $100

MOSAIC Language Centre
CLBPT
301-2730 Commercial Dr.
Vancouver, BC V5N 5P4
Tel.: 604-684-8825
Website: http://www.mosaicbc.com/
Fee: $100

Vancouver Community College
Assessment Centre
Broadway Campus
Room 4027 4th Floor 1155 East Broadway
Vancouver, BC V5T 4V5
Open Mon, Tue + Thu 9-4 Wed 1-7pm Closed Friday.
Appointments must be made in person and student must present photo ID (permanent resident card). Cost is $30 for admissions and $50 for assessment.
Tel.: 604-871-7093
Email Address: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Website: www.vcc.ca/assessments/
Total Fee: $90

Step 2
Fill in the Application Form and return by email to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or by fax to: 604-875-5737

You will need to fax a copy of your CLBPT results with your application clearly identifying your name on the top.

Deadline for Applications for Course 1: November 21st, 2008

Step 3
If you are accepted into the Workplace Communication Skills Course, you will be required to complete an application to Kwantlen Polytechnic University

For more information call Sandy Berman at 604-873-8545