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Greetings!
Would you like to post an item on the
bulletin board? Send your items to Angela Rickard, AACH
Program Coordinator, at rickard@AACHonline.org by the 15th of
each month.
Please limit your submissions to 200
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 President's
Report
AACH
The 26th Annual
Faculty Development Summer Course hosted by Mayo Clinic at
Jacksonville, FL May 31 to June 4 promises to be a
breakthrough for AACH thanks to hard and imaginative work by
Maysel White, Marla Rowe Gorosh, Bill Maples and the Course
Committee. This Course will address teamwork and safe patient
care. These are newly emphasized topics very much in line with
the direction healthcare is going and will take in the future.
The Jacksonville Course promises to attract many attendees,
far more than we have attracted to our really excellent, but
smaller courses in recent years. The increase in attendance
and new focus on issues of paramount importance to
practitioners reflect in good part building relationships
between our facilitators and educators and Mayo's
faculty.
Looking over key
features of the Course provides a flavor of both new and
traditional directions for us. For example, one of the goals,
"Recharging your personal battery and passion" has been a
hallmark for us over the years. How many folks who took the
Course said they felt renewed and recharged? Likewise,
"Becoming more skilled at managing emotions and at turning
conflict into opportunities to accept diversity and improve
safety" are closely akin to the enhanced personal awareness
that so many have attributed to their experiences at AACH.
"Enhancing the quality of care you deliver", "Increasing your
influence and effectiveness as a facilitative team member and
leader" and "Becoming a more creative and dynamic change agent
in healthcare" indicate dynamic new directions for our
teaching, perhaps striking out anew, but at the same time
undoubtedly with the same highly respectful, genuinely caring
facilitation that has always characterized AACH.
I am excited about
changes and new offering that will enhance and expand our
impact. I remember the impact AACH had on me and on many
others in the early 80s. The experience was eye-opening. Many
folks said it was finding the one place in medicine that
valued what they wanted to value. I think we must keep
changing and improving to be that place for those who come to
Jacksonville and future AACH Courses.
All best wishes,
Bill Branch,
President,
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AACH
Board Updates
AACH
AACH is pleased to
announce the election of a new Board Chair, Gregory Makoul,
PhD. He is professor and director of the Center for
Communication and Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg
School of Medicine, where he oversees communication education
and research. Greg has succeeded Tony Suchman whose term ended
December 31, 2007. At the same board meeting, William J.
Maples, MD, a Hematologist /Oncologist with Mayo Clinic in
Jacksonville, Fla., was elected to a three-year board
term.
For brief bios of
board members, please see the Leadership section of the
AACH Web site. |
 26th Annual Faculty Development
Course
AACH
Strengthening Relationships: Promoting a
Culture of Safe Patient Care
Join us in
Jacksonville, Florida, USA, for the 26th Annual Faculty
Development Course on May 31 - June 4, 2008
Early Bird Rates Expires February 1, register now to
save!
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AACH Teaching & Research Forum
AACH
Translating Communications Research:
Bench to Bedside to Community
2008 AACH Forum
October 17-19, 2008
Madison, Wisconsin
Abstract Submission Dates
March 1-31
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AACH
Offers Doctor/Patient Relationship
Courses
Looking for a way
to improve skills? Want to build your program in healthcare
communication? AACH has the ability to tailor institutional
courses for faculty or clinicians and will work
collaboratively with you to create a course that fits your
needs.
Please contact
Chris Pallozola, AACH executive director, at
chris@AACHonline.org for information about what AACH can offer
your organization.
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 Subscribe to doc.com
today!
Get Connected with
AACH's doc.com: An interactive learning resource for
healthcare communication
Go to our
demonstration Web site where you can sign up for a 15-day free
trial.
At AACH, we are
certain that your efforts to develop learners competence in
the core skills of communication and professionalism will
better succeed if you/ they subscribe to doc.com: An
interactive learning resource for healthcare communication.
doc.com module
authors, with decades of teaching experience, demonstrate
skills on video. The web resource has e-learning interactive
features such as hot links to citations, easy movement between
more or less text detail, active sidebars that name
demonstrated skills, hot links to author commentaries on their
interviews and (new feature!) patient commentaries, too.
Module assessments provide feedback to learners and their
teachers or course directors, including documentation to meet
competency requirements. Our 40 modules cover all the
communication competencies that a recent Institute of Medicine
Report considered essential for physicians.
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Subscribe to
PEC
AACH
As
the official journal of AACH, Patient Education and Counseling
(PEC) is offered to AACH members at a special discount.
Subscribe now for 2007 and receive
12 issues (print
and online) for $106
This represents a
discount off the regular rate of $168 Please e-mail Sherry
Erker, Member Services Manager, for more information at
erker@drakeco.com.
Note: AACH members subscribing to PEC can
access their journal through ScienceDirect. Information that
explains how to complete the registration process and who you
should contact if you have problems or questions is posted on
AACH's Web site, www.AACHonline.org.
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Items to the AACH Community Bulletin
Board
The monthly online
AACH Community Bulletin Board is a place for members to share
information and ask questions. Please use this membership
benefit to facilitate communication, networking and
collaboration.
Members are
welcome to post the following items:
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Meeting,
workshop and course announcements
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Job postings
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Requests for
proposals, grant information, informational
queries;
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Practice,
teaching and research questions.
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Requests and/or
suggestions for collaboration
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Helpful
resources for practitioners, teachers and patients (print,
video, electronic)
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Personal
announcements and news
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Your new
publications (citations)
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Other listings
will be considered
Send your items to
AACH Program Coordinator, Angela Rickard, at
rickard@AACHonline.org by the 15th of each month. Watch for
new items to be posted on the Bulletin Board at the end of
each month.
Listings are free
for AACH members. Listings are $50 per 200-word listing for
non-members or for members who have not renewed.
Please limit your
submissions to 200 words.
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(EACH) European Association for Communication in
Healthcare
International Conference on Communication in Healthcare
2008
OF INTEREST TO AACH MEMBERS
2-5 September
2008, Oslo, Norway
CALL FOR PAPERS
AND WORKSHOPS
Deadline for
submission of abstracts: 1 February 2008
www.each-conference.com
CALL FOR PAPERS
AND WORKSHOPS
Abstracts for oral
/ poster presentations and workshops on the following topics
should be submitted by 1 February 2008 via the online
submission form at www.each-conference.com.
The program will
address the following topics:
·
Basic and applied research in clinical
communication
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Teaching clinical communication skills
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Communication and the brain
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Shared decision making in general and hospital practice
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Communication and emotion
For further
information and to submit abstracts, please visit
www.each-conference.com or contact Gill Heaton at the
Conference Secretariat at:
each-conference@elsevier.com
The 2008
International Conference on Communication in Healthcare is
organized by the European Association for Communication in
Healthcare in association with: Patient Education and
Counseling/Elsevier
Don't Forget to Save the Date for ICCH
2009!
October 4-8, 2009
Miami,
Florida |
Free Book for Teachers of Communication in Medical
School and Residency Programs
OF
INTEREST TO AACH MEMBERS
Motivational
Interviewing in Health Care
This is to tell
you about an important new book by Stephen Rollnick, William
R. Miller, and Christopher C. Butler, called "Motivational
Interviewing in Health Care." This book explains the core
skills of MI and demonstrates how you can use it in health
care settings to guide patients in making choices that will
improve their health, from weight loss, exercise, and smoking
cessation, to medication adherence and safer sex practices. I
highly recommend this book for use in your practice, and also
as a teaching tool for communication courses in medical
schools and residency programs. Visit the Guilford Press site
for more information or to order: www.guilford.com/pr/rollnick.htm.
Also, be sure to use promotional code 4M at checkout and
Guilford will give you a 15% discount. Desk copies are
available for professors as well. To learn more about
Guilford's 60-day exam policy, visit: www.guilford.com/instructors.
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 Healthy People 2020
OF
INTEREST TO AACH MEMBERS
Please save the
date: Monday, February 11, 2008,
9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Meeting Purpose:
To continue the Health Communication/IT Healthy People 2020
objective development process. (Agenda to
follow)
Location:
Washington, DC (place to be determined) or Conference call
(call in information to follow)
We hope you can
join us.
Cynthia Baur,
Division of Health Communication and Marketing/CDC
Charles Friedman,
ONC/OS/HHS
Linda Harris,
ODPHP/OS/HHS |
Position- Postdoctoral Training in Health
Communication
OF INTEREST TO AACH
MEMBERS
We have a position
available for a Post-Doc in Health Communication. The post-doc
will receive mentorship from faculty in the Vanderbilt Schools
of Nursing and Medicine. The Postdoctoral Program provides
fellows with a unique opportunity to advance their education
and research career in health communication. Research areas of
interest may include: Health Literacy and Numeracy, Patient
Centered Health Communication, Cultural Competency, Medical
Decision Making, and Health Communication
Measurement.
The Postdoctoral
Program at Vanderbilt is a two-year program that offers an
annual stipend of $48,500 plus fringe benefits and $16,500 to
support research-related activities. The Program is open to
those who have completed a doctoral program within the past
five years. A nursing background is preferred, but is not a
requirement. The post-doc would need to consider a potential
faculty position through the School of Nursing once the
post-doc is complete. For more information please contact,
Matthew Kennon, (615) 936-7280, Matthew.kennon@vanderbilt.edu. |
 Hospitals Moving Forward Intensive with Patient- and
Family-Centered Care
Training Seminar
OF INTEREST TO
AACH MEMBERS
March 3-6
Atlanta, GA
This intensive
seminar has been a significant force for change in improving
the way health care is delivered. The seminar offers
programming for all of adult health care, maternity care,
pediatrics, and newborn intensive care. A major goal of this
seminar is to encourage the development of partnerships with
patients and families to improve systems of care, quality and
safety, facility design, the use of information technology,
and the education of health care professional.
Emory Healthcare
and Emory University School of Medicine are partnering with
the Institute to bring the seminar to Atlanta.
For more
information, please visit our site at www.familycenteredcare.org. |
19th Annual Workshop on Medical Communications:
Medical Information, Medical Liaisons, Contact
Centers
OF INTEREST TO AACH
MEMBERS
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Enhancing the Professional Culture of Schools of
Medicine
OF INTEREST TO AACH
MEMBERS
Enhancing
the Professional Culture of Schools of Medicine:
Indiana
University School of Medicine's Relationship-Centered Care
Initiative
Immersion
Conference III
Request
for Applications
April 29 - May 1,
2008
Indiana University School
of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
View the
Brochure |
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Difficult
Conversations in Healthcare: Pedagogy and
Practice
OF
INTEREST TO AACH MEMBERS
This
1-day course offers the opportunity to learn about an
innovative pedagogy for teaching and enhancing relational
capacities and communication skills in physicians, social
workers, nurses, and other health care professionals at all
levels of professional development. We use the PERCS (Program
to Enhance Relational and Communication Skills) model of
realistic enactments (with professional actors), collaborative
learning, and reflection and feedback. We also discuss and
consider how participants might usefully integrate the
pedagogy into educational endeavors in their home
institutions. The course provides teaching and learning
strategies for the interpersonal and communication skills and
professionalism competencies required by many regulatory
organizations including the ACGME and LCME. The course is
co-sponsored by the Harvard Macy Institute Program for
Educators in the Health Professions and The Institute for
Professionalism and Ethical Practice (IPEP), an initiative of
the Division of Critical Care Medicine at Children's Hospital
Boston, MA
USA.
2008
Course Date: Saturday, May 17,
2008
Cost
and Location:
Tuition is $425. The course will be held in Boston, MA USA
from 1:00 pm to 7:15 pm on the dates
listed.
Register online
at: http://mycourses.med.harvard.edu/pub_forms.asp?sid=HMS_1508 (or
paste the URL into your browser). For the
full course announcement, go to: http://www.harvardmacy.org and click on
the course listing on the left side of your screen.
For
more information, please contact:
Elizabeth
Rider, MSW, MD, Course Director: elizabeth_rider@hms.harvard.edu |
Call for Applications
OF INTEREST TO AACH MEMBERS
2008 Summer
Institute in Informed Patient Choice:
"Interprofessional
Education in Decision Support"
Dartmouth College, Hanover,
NH, USA
June 25 - July 2,
2008
The Background
Motivation for SIIPC 2008:
Patient-centered
care could be improved if the different members of
multidisciplinary
health care teams can work together in providing
high-quality
Decision Support/Patients' Decision Aids
(DS/PtDAs).
Therefore, we need
to develop, test, and implement effective,
sustainable
interprofessional
training programs to teach DS/PtDAs as a clinical
skill.
To do this well,
we need to build collaborative links between experts in
DS
/ PtDAs and
experts in inter-professional education.
Applying for a
Summer Institute Fellowship:
For application
forms and information about the submission process,
visit:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~cecs/cic/2008/index.html
and click on
"Applications"
The application
deadline is January 15, 2008.
Applicants'
submissions will be reviewed by the Planning
Committee.
Selected Fellows
will be notified in April, 2008.
Fellows will be
provided with housing on the Dartmouth campus, some
meals,
and course
materials.
Supported
By:
The Center for
Informed Choice at The Dartmouth Institute for Health
Policy
& Clinical
Practice
The Agency for
Health Care Research and Quality.*
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A Great Publishing
Opportunity
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Do you do work
that focuses on communication or relationships in healthcare?
Do you have really great ideas, preliminary data, stories,
poetry or artwork that you would like to share with
like-minded individuals (and some of the leaders in the field
of medical communication)? Send your stuff to Medical
Encounter!
Medical Encounter
is an academic
journal of the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare
that publishes scholarly and artistic works relating to
relationships in healthcare. Medical Encounter reaches
patients, practitioners, teachers, researchers, policymakers
and leaders in the healthcare environment. Publishing in
Medical Encounter is a great way to get early exposure
for your work and ideas, and can lend credibility to
subsequent efforts at funding and publication.
Check out past
issues of Medical Encounter and information for authors
on our website at www.aachonline.org/publications/medicalencounter |
Behavioral
Scientists: Submit to Medical Encounter
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Behavioral
Science Column of Medical Encounter is devoted to
applying behavioral and social science theories, clinical
interventions and research findings to medical
practice. Familiarity with the range of psychological
treatments enhances the physician's ability to provide
optimal care, to address psychophysiological
symptoms and to refer the patient for
specialized mental health care when necessary. The
behavioral science literature on transference,
personality styles, trauma, and attachment theory
can help inform physician-patient interactions,
influence patients' ability to cope with illness, influence
adherence, and even affect medical outcomes. If you
would like to write an article utilizing the behavioral and
social sciences to enhance medical practice
or education, I welcome your ideas and submissions.
Please submit to the Behavioral Science Editor
alyce_getler@hms.harvard.edu. Thank you! |
Call for Narratives
on Reflective Practice
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Patient Education and
Counseling, presents a section comprised of selected
narratives on reflective practice
Reflective
Practice provides a voice for physicians and other healthcare
providers, patients and their family members, trainees and
medical educators. The title emphasizes the importance of
reflection in our learning and how our patient care and own
self- care can be improved through reflective practice,
similar to other health care provider skills. We welcome
personal narratives on caring, patient- provider
relationships, humanism in healthcare, professionalism and its
challenges, patients' perspectives, and collaboration in
patient care and counseling. Most narratives will describe
personal or professional experiences that provide a lesson
applicable to caring, humanism, and relationship in health
care. Submit manuscripts through the Patient Education and
Counseling on-line, electronic submission system
at http://ees.elsevier.com/pec.
Patient Education and Counseling is an international journal
indexed in Medline and 13 other related indexes. All
manuscripts, including narratives, are
peer-reviewed.
If
you would like an electronic copy of the editorial describing
the Reflective Practice section, "Sharing Stories: Narrative
Medicine in an Evidence-Based World", please e-mail David
Hatem, MD
<HatemD@ummhc.org> or
Elizabeth Rider, MSW, MD
<elizabeth_rider@hms.harvard.edu>
Editors:
US:
David Hatem, MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School,
Worcester, MA USA
Elizabeth
A. Rider, MSW, MD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
USA
Europe: Shmuel Reis MD,
MHPE, Technion [Israel Institute of Technology], Haifa,
Israel
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Call for
Manuscripts and Reviewers for PEC
David
Steele writes:
Please
consider submitting manuscripts dealing with topics related to
medical education and the training of health care
professionals for their roles as patient educators and
counselors. I am also seeking colleagues who will be willing
to serve as peer reviewers of manuscripts. Please contact me
at david.steele@ttuhsc.edu if you have
questions about potential submissions. Patient Education and
Counseling seeks to explore and elucidate educational,
counseling and communication models in health care. Articles
on medical education focus on educational efforts that target
experiences, programs and educational research on the
teaching/training and evaluation of
interpersonal/communication skills of health care providers
and the attitudes and skills needed for optimal communication.
Submissions are sought for original research and systematic
reviews of the literature. Studies employing quantitative,
qualitative, and mixed methods designs are welcome, as are
rigorous systematic reviews of the research
literature.
For
more information, contact:
David
J. Steele, PhD, Senior Associate Dean for Medical
Education
Texas
Tech University Health Sciences Center, Paul L. Foster School
of Medicine
4800
Alberta Avenue, El
Paso, TX 79905
David.steele@ttuhsc.edu
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PEC Peer
Reviewers Needed
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Patient Education
and Counseling seeks reviewers of papers submitted
to the journal for potential publication. If
you are interested in becoming a reviewer for this
journal on topics related to the study of healthcare
communications, please log on to the Elsevier Web site,
http://ees.elsevier.com/pec to sign up
and
e-mail the subjects you'd like to review to Dr. Larry
Wissow, Editor,
Patient Education and Counseling, at Lwissow@jhsph.edu
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