Join us in beautiful Charleston, South Carolina, USA, for the International Conference on Communication in Healthcare on October 9-12, 2007.

 

REGISTER FOR EARLY BIRD BY AUGUST 15 AND SAVE! To register online go here.

 

Please remember that all fellowship applications are due by August 1. Information is available on the website.

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.

 

AACH

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.

 

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.

 

To view an online sample copy of PEC

 

 

David Kern was unanimously approved for promotion to Professor of Medicine 6/20/07 by the Advisory Board of the Medical Faculty on recommendation of the Professorial Promotion Committee at John Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

 

On July 15^th David Steele assumed the role of Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education at the new four-year medical school that Texas Tech University is establishing in El Paso, Texas.

 

The changing relationship between communities and their healthcare organizations and professionals holds great promise for the meaningful transformation of healthcare. To develop innovative approaches to promoting health and well-being, we need new and deeper understandings of both individuals-the nature of mind, what motivates us, how our patterns of thinking and behaving form and evolve-and communities-how individuals live together in societies, and the nature of our interdependence. Complexity science, Relationship-centered Care and other theoretical frameworks offer useful new insights in these areas.

This program aims to enhance the engagement of individuals and communities as partners in creating their own health and cultivating healthy communities. Through learning sessions on mindfulness, dialogue skills, complexity science and Relationship-centered Care supplemented by firsthand experience of health systems-community dialogue, participants will develop valuable knowledge, skills and tools to help them foster change in their own communities. The program faculty will include people with expertise in community health issues, complexity science and Relationship-centered Care. Participants will include community members and health care workers, educators and researchers from many disciplines. There will be ample opportunity for participants and faculty to interact in order to:

Explore individual and collective values, beliefs, and experiences about health and healthcare.

Discover key elements and core strategies that support the emergence of health at both the individual and community level.

Learn to apply principles of mindfulness, complexity science, Relationship-centered Care and social networking in fostering community dialogues about health and care.

Create specific action plans and strategies to stimulate change at a local, community, and/or organizational level that can contribute to an epidemic of health and the transformation of healthcare.

Sponsored by Plexus Institute, the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare and the National Academies of Practice

Save the Date!(113K PDF) And stay tuned for more details

 

Dear friends and colleagues,   We are happy to inform you that the organization of the t-EACH course (Communication and Change Series) in Venice, Italy is in full swing.   We are looking forward to your participation, so please save the dates September 9-15th, 2007.   The title will be:

"Time: friend or foe in modern healthcare?"

We are planning a highly interactive and experiential course, suitable for people involved in clinical work and/or teaching. All the most innovative ideas about teaching and facilitation will be used during large and small group activities.

Take a break, come to Venice!

Either if you are an experienced clinician/teacher/facilitator or you are in the beginning of your career, you will be very welcome. You will have the opportunity for meeting your various goals, in the fields of skills training, co-facilitation opportunities, personal awareness, relationship building and self-care.   Which place is more suitable for reflection on time and change than Venice, with its timeless, fascinating atmosphere?

And we also succeeded in keeping the prices low!   We can offer you an early-bird rate of 600 euros (before June, 8th), which includes course activities, welcome cocktail and closing dinner. After June, 8th the fee will raise to 850 euros.   If you accept to share your room (2, 3 or 4 beds) we can accommodate you in the course facilities at a very convenient rate, starting from 50 euros up to 65 euros per night per person, breakfast included (limited availability). If you want to stay in a single room, we will send you hotel suggestions.

Take a look at the official website for registration and detailed course information   Course information and registration: http://training.t-each.org

See you in Venice!   The organizing committee:   Siri Steine (Norway) Hans Kallerup (Denmark) Luca Oppizzi (Switzerland) Giovanni Tagliavini (Italy) Peter Barnett (USA)

 

 

 

 

The Consciousness and Experiential Section of the British Psychological Society is hosting a conference called,

"Reflection, Self-Actualization and Awareness," 14th - 16th September, 2007.

Conference themes include the practical, therapeutic, developmental and philosophical aspects as well as biological bases of self-awareness and reflection.

Their call for proposals is on the CEP website at: http://www.bps.org.uk/conex/consciousness-experiential_home.cfm.

Submission deadlines: Papers and symposia 30th June 2007; posters 14th July 2007.

 

OF INTEREST TO AACH MEMBERS

An American-Canadian conference to be held October 24-26, 2007 at the University of Minnesota.  Called Collaborating Across Borders: An American-Canadian Dialogue on Interprofessional Health Education.

 

The conference will bring together leaders in the field to share best practices and chart a course to improve collaboration in health care.

 

Conference organizers have distributed a call for sessions to seek proposals for four conference tracks.  Those interested in the interprofessional education and collaboration are encouraged to participate in this effort.  Information can be found on the website at www.ipe.umn.edu

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Physician Competence:

 

From Deconstruction to Reconstruction

 

A conference on the Physician Competence: From Deconstruction to Reconstruction, co-sponsored by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), will be held on September 15-16, 2007 at The Sofitel Chicago O'Hare Hotel in Rosemont, Illinois, with a reception and poster session September 15, 2007 from 6:00 -

9:00 pm.

 

SUBMISSION PROCESS

 

Abstracts must be received by the ACGME no later than midnight July 30, 2007. Submissions must be sent electronically using the Abstract Submission Form to abstracts@acgme.org and must be sent by the lead author. No substitutions will be accepted. Notification of acceptance for poster presentation will be sent by return email to the "sent" address of the lead author by July 31, 2007. The lead author is responsible for notifying co-authors of the acceptance decision and all subsequent instructions. Display/presentation specifications will be provided at the time of acceptance. Accepted abstracts will be reproduced as part of the conference syllabus.

 

ALL PRESENTERS ARE REQUIRED TO REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE.

 

The url for the conf is

http://www.acgme.org/acWebsite/meetings/me_ABMS_ACGMEConference07.pdf

 

Editors: Christina Higgins (University of Hawaii at Manoa) and Bonny Norton (University of British Columbia)

 

Publisher: Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, UK

 

Proposed book description:

This edited volume examines the role of language and discourse in contexts in which competing forms of knowledge about HIV/ AIDS are constructed, transmitted, and transformed.  The volume offers a qualitative perspective on understandings of HIV/ AIDS that complements current biomedical perspectives. Taking the view that discourse largely constitutes the sociocultural context of knowledge about HIV/AIDS, the chapters collectively investigate how discourses that surround and comprise prevention are produced and interpreted.   Using a range of discourse-analytic

and semiotic approaches, the scholarship in this volume seeks to shed light on both the forms of knowledge conveyed among communities affected by HIV/AIDS and on the educational practices that are meant to help prevent the spread of HIV.

Defining education broadly, the book will examine both the construction of HIV/AIDS education as a discourse and the emergence of competing and cross-cultural ideologies that are co-constructed in interactions.  The analyses offered seek to make sense of the challenges that educators, health practitioners, and target populations face, and to make recommendations for change. 

The book focuses on the production of local knowledge through analyzing the gaps that emerge in discourses which point to 'lay' or 'local' forms of knowledge vis-à-vis the 'professional' or 'global' discourses that are transmitted through official channels such as NGOs, the World Health Organization, and medical and health professionals.  The contributions demonstrate a high degree of salience for local knowledge among the participants, and the volume offers recommendations for how to integrate such local knowledge into the professional discourses surrounding HIV/AIDS education.

The general purpose of the proposed volume is to demonstrate how the tools of linguistics can be applied to inform and improve practices in health and education around the world. The volume will have great appeal not only to applied linguists, but also to health educators, medical anthropologists, and policymakers working in the public health arena.

 

If you are interested in becoming a contributor to this collection, please contact Christina Higgins at cmhiggin@hawaii.edu