PT-D 734
Professional Practice V
Kyle Kyle Covington
Description from DukeHub
The Professional Practice series threads throughout the curriculum. In this course, learners engage with job roles and clinicians that impact practice broadly, including data management, legislative and regulatory advocacy, and population health. Furthermore they engage in substantive debate about issues facing the profession through a mock debate process. In this course, learners will develop the professional behaviors, knowledge, and values crucial to be leaders in a dynamic health care environment. Through an understanding of the profession's history and governance, students will have experiences in professional and patient advocacy initiatives. Students will master the crucial skills of patient and professional communication in order to operate effectively in practice. Students will also be grounded in ethical frameworks that can be easily applied to practical situations encountered in clinical practice. This course series seeks to develop leadership skills necessary to be change agents in healthcare practice, management, education, research, and advocacy.
Skills
- public speakingdescription: "advocacy" and 4 more
- policy and lawdescription: "legislative" and 2 more
- clinicaldescription: "patient" and 2 more
- leadershipdescription: "leaders" and 1 more
AI-resilient: 2 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- Yes: Live work with people · "patient"
- Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "governance"
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- No: Small, in-person format
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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