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Greetings!
Would you like to post an item on the
bulletin board? Send your items, including citations in
current publications, to Chris Pallozola, at chris@AACHonline.org by the 15th of each
month.
Please limit your submissions to 200
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AACH Research & Teaching Forum
AACH
Translating Communications Research:
Bench to Bedside to Community
2008 AACH Forum
October 17-19, 2008
Madison, Wisconsin
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Engel and Payer
Awards
AACH
Don't forget nominations for the Engel and Payer awards
are due July 15.
Please send a nomination letter that outlines why you
believe the nominee should receive the award and attach a copy
of the nominee's curriculum vitae. You may send in your
nominations for either one or both awards. Please verify that
your nominee will be available to attend the awards ceremony
at the conference dinner Saturday, October
18.
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Fellowship Criteria
Reminder
AACH
Please remember that all fellowship applications
are due by August 1. Information is available on the
website.
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AACH Staff Update
AACH
Our Program Coordinator, Angela Rickard, has submitted
her letter of resignation. She has accepted the position of
Special Events and Communications Manager with the Asthma
& Allergy Foundation of America, St. Louis Chapter. Her
last day will be Friday, June
13.
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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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Special PEC Issue on Patient-Centered Communication
in Cancer Care
CALL FOR
SUBMISSIONS
Patient Education and Counseling is doing a
special issue on Patient-Centered Communication in Cancer
Care. AACH Members: Ron Epstein, Rick Street and Neeraj Aroraare
editing this issue along with another researcher from
Australia. PEC has published a call for papers
soliciting papers from July through September.
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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
Chris Pallozola, at chris@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
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
www.each-conference.com
Don't Forget to Save the Date for ICCH
2009!
October 4-8, 2009
Miami,
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Ethical Force Program
OF
INTEREST TO AACH MEMBERS
Dear friends of the Ethical Force Program,
We wanted to let you all know that the Ethical
Force Program's organizational assessment toolkit for
patient-centered communication is now available. I know
several of you have worked with us on different
parts of this communication project and will be happy to
know we are continuing to move forward.
The
direct link to the toolkit is
Thank you,
Jennifer
Are your patients
getting the right message?
New toolkit from the AMA Ethical
Force Program helps you assess how effectively your
organization communicates.
Illness, fear, low literacy,
foreign languages and cultures, and many other factors can
make it difficult for your staff to communicate with patients.
"Improving communication-improving care" is a new performance
measurement toolkit from the Ethical Force Program® at the
American Medical Association (AMA) designed to assist your
organization in meeting the needs of a diverse patient
population. This one-of-a-kind resource can help you assess
how effectively your organization communicates and target
resources for improvement exactly where they're
needed.
Toolkit includes: 1) Surveys and cover
letters to gather feedback from your health care
organization's leaders, staff and patients; 2) A handy user's
guide; 3) Templates to help you enter and analyze survey
results; 4) An analysis guide; 5) Model PowerPoint®
presentations and other promotional materials to present your
survey results to staff and
leaders.
Patient-centered communication is
critical for high-quality health care and it can lead to
higher patient satisfaction, greater loyalty and positive
health outcomes. Make sure your patients are getting the right
message-visit www.ethicalforce.org (click organizational
assessment toolkit in right sidebar) for more information and
to order your toolkit today.
Jennifer
Matiasek
Research Associate, Institute for
Ethics
American Medical Association
515 North State
Street
Chicago, IL
60610
312.464.4710
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 Patient Listening
A Doctor's Guide
OF
INTEREST TO AACH MEMBERS
In this welcome
addition to the growing field of narrative medicine; physician
Loreen Herwaldt uses the illness narratives of two dozen
writer-patients to teach listening skills to medical students,
residents, physicians, and other health care providers.
Herwaldt
skillfully pares each narrative down to its most basic
elements, rendering them into powerful found poems that she
has used successfully in her role as a teacher and in her own
practice. Drawing from narratives by writers who are both
emerging and well known, including Oliver Sacks, Richard
Selzer, and Mary Swander, each poem reveals the experience of
illness and treatment from the patient's perspective. Patient
Listening includes a detailed general introduction and a
how-to guide that will prove invaluable in the classroom and
in clinical practice.
This book will
inspire thoughtfulness in everyone who reads it. It is also
designed to foster discussions about all aspects of the
patient experience from ethics to stigmatization to health
insurance. Patient Listening is not just about bedside manner
but also about how health care providers can gain the most
from their interactions with patients and in turn offer more
appropriate treatments, develop more cooperative and
responsive relationships with their patients, and thus become
better doctors.
http://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/books/2008-spring/herwaldt.htm
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 New Resource
OF INTEREST TO
AACH MEMBERS
A
Practical Guide to Teaching and Assessing the ACGME Core
Competencies
by
Elizabeth A. Rider, MSW, MD, Ruth Nawotniak, MS, CTAGME and
Gary Smith, EdD (HCPro, Inc., 2007)
This
book provides research, best practices, models, and tools for
teaching and assessing core medical education competencies
required by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical
Education (ACGME) for residency programs and adopted by many
medical schools, licensing and medical specialty boards in the
US and internationally. An invaluable and practical book
that has broad applicability across all levels of medical
education, from medical students to residents to practicing
physicians. Available from
Amazon.com, other booksellers, and the publisher
at: http://www.hcmarketplace.com/prod-5156.html |
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Difficult
Conversations in Healthcare: Pedagogy and
Practice
OF
INTEREST TO AACH MEMBERS
This
1-day faculty development 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 a
Pre-Course of the Harvard Macy Institute Program for Educators
in the Health Professions and was developed by faculty leaders
at the Institute for Professionalism and Ethical Practice at
Children's Hospital, Boston.
Next
Course Date: Saturday, May 17, 2008, 1:00 - 7:30
pm
Upcoming
course dates for 2009: Saturday, January 17, 2009 and
Saturday, May 16, 2009.
Cost
and Location: Tuition is $425. Spaces are limited. The
course will be held at Children's Hospital in Boston, MA
USA.
For the full
course announcement, go to:
http://www.harvardmacy.org and click
on the course listing on the left side of your
screen.
Register
online at:
http://mycourses.med.harvard.edu/pub_forms.asp?sid=HMS_1508
(or paste it into your browser).
For
more information, please contact:
Elizabeth
Rider, MSW, MD, Course Director: elizabeth_rider@hms.harvard.edu
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 Safe Surgery
Saves Lives Launch Event
OF
INTEREST TO AACH MEMBERS
The Safe
Surgery Saves Lives project will be formally launched at a
major global event to be held at the WHO Regional Office for
the Americas (AMRO/PAHO) in Washington D.C.,
USA.
Date:
25 June 2008
Venue:
Pan-American Health Organization
Headquarters
525 23rd St.
N.W.
Washington, D.C.
20037
This
event will be hosted by Dr Mirta Roses Periago, WHO Regional
Director for the Americas and attended by Ministers of Health,
world experts in surgery, anaesthesiology and nursing and
leading representatives of health-care associations.
Keynote speakers will include Dr Atul Gawande, leader of the
Safe Surgery Saves Lives project, and Sir Liam Donaldson,
Chief Medical Officer for England and Chair of the WHO World
Alliance for Patient Safety. The event will video link with
the initiative's pilot sites around the world and will feature
endorsements received from professional associations and
societies in support of the "WHO Surgical Safety Checklist" (a
tool for surgical teams around the world, to ensure that
patients undergo the right operation at the correct body site,
with safe anaesthesia, established infection prevention
measures and effective teamwork for safer care.)
For
more information on Safe Surgery Saves Lives please visit:
http://www.who.int/patientsafety/challenge/safe.surgery/en/index.html
.
To register your interest in attending the launch
please send your details to whopatientsafety@who.int.
Please note that WHO shall not be in any position to cover for
the travel or accommodation expenses of the participants
except where previously expressly agreed.
Kind regards,
World Alliance for
Patient Safety
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Hospitals and Communities Moving Forward Intensive
Training Seminar
OF INTEREST TO AACH
MEMBERS
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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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