This course introduces health belief models and theories, including the patient's perspective of health, illness, and patient‐provider interactions, educational assessment, and consultation related to medication use. The main goal of this course is to help students understand and empathize with patients. The course emphasizes the patient instead of focusing upon the disease. Sociological and psychological implications of living with chronic medical conditions are discussed. Students learn to consider how the patient feels and how they can impact patient outcomes as health care professionals.#Syllabus#SocialandAdministrativeSciences#PatientBehavior#patientcenteredcare