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Show THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HONORS COLLEGE ACCURATE COMMUNICATION: EXPLAINING A MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY TO A MASS AUDIENCE Joselyn Turner (Jakob D. Jensen) Department of Mass Communication University of Utah The purpose of this thesis project is to describe the process I have taken, and that others could follow, to use the written communication techniques that I have learned during m y undergraduate career to accurately inform a non-medically trained mass audience of a medical technology. I provide transcriptions of interviews that I have conducted with two inventors of medical technologies. I then proceed to give examples of h o w I turned those interviews into different formats used to communicate the technologies to a mass audience. Clear communication concerning a medical technology is not only useful in our day and age, but it is necessary. Medical technologies must be explained to non-medically trained individuals for a variety of reasons, whether it be for a patient and their family that may benefit from the use of the technology, potential investors, professors that must teach their students about the new technology, or media personnel that can assist in disbursing the knowledge of this new technology. I have been working with Thad Kelling, of the University of Utah Technology Venture Department, and w e formed a list of medical inventors associated with the University of Utah that I chose to interview. M y goal as a communication major is to detail m y process of accurately describing a medical technology, while still using proper medical and engineering verbiage, to a mass audience in a way that is easily understood. |
