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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
Membership is the
life blood of AACH. We currently have more than 500 active
members. We could easily increase to 600 while strengthening
the organization. Recently, Dennis Cope, Professor of Medicine
at UCLA, accepted the position of Vice President for
Membership. As many of you know, Dennis truly loves AACH and
he is loved by literally hundreds of those whom he taught or
supported over the years. He has been an AACH facilitator
since the beginning. In his VP role he is dedicated to
enhancing member diversity in every way. We would like to
expand our membership to include more members in the allied
health sectors, but doesn't mean we will slack off in our
efforts to enhance AACH in the physician community. This
includes members from outside the United States. For example,
very good work on patient relationships is being done in
Canada. AACH certainly needs to maintain regional, gender and
ethnic diversity. I believe no one is more likely to
accomplish this mission than Dennis. He is currently seeking
volunteers for the Membership Committee that should correspond
in every way to the goals for membership diversity by
attracting those who teach or do research on relationship
centered care. Anyone interested in helping Dennis with
Membership should contact him at dcope@ladhs.org.
With best wishes,
Bill Branch,
President, AACH
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 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
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AACH Board Updates
AACH
Rita Charon has been elected to the Board of
Directors.
Dennis Cope has been elected to the Board of Directors
and also elected as VP of Membership.
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 Save the Date
AACH
2008 Winter Course
March 15-21, 2008
Ghost Ranch,
Santa Fe, NM
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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
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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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| Submit
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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Journal of General Internal
Medicine
AACH IN THE NEWS
AACH
is pleased that members, Beth Lown, William Clark, Calvin
Chou, Paul Haidet, Maysel Kemp White, Edward Krupat and Peter
Weissmann have an article published in the November Issue
of JGIM referencing AACH.
Read the article here.
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 Also in JGIM
MEMBER
NEWS
Members,
Anthony Suchman has an editorial
& William Branch has a reflection
also in this issue.
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| AACH
Members' Articles
MEMBER NEWS
If you would like your article mentioned in the AACH
bulletin board please send Angela Rickard ( Rickard@AACHonline.org) the
article.
When notifying the
AACH headquarters, it will be most beneficial to provide
the
following
information:
1. Name of
member
2. Complete name
of publication including volume and number if
applicable
3. Name of
publisher if applicable
4. Date of
publication
5. Hyperlink if
possible (please no attachments)
AACH Member, Greg Makoul, has some articles published. To
see a list of the articles click
here. |
AACH
Member Newsflash
MEMBER NEWS
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 AACH is interested in sending suggestions for
measurable health communication objectives to the Department
of Health and Human Services
OF
INTEREST TO AACH MEMBERS
If you would like
to be involved:
(1) Send specific suggestions to chris@aachonline.org.
(2) Indicate in
your email if you are interested in volunteering to
participate on a time-limited task force to refine these
suggestions. We hope to send our suggestions by the end of
November.
Background: The Department of
Health and Human Services is in the initial stages of planning
for the next set of comprehensive objectives to serve as a
framework for disease prevention and health promotion efforts
throughout the nation. Healthy People 2020 will build on
the efforts of Healthy People 2010 by leveraging the
scientific insight and lessons learned during the past decade
along with emerging data, trends, and innovations to identify
and address the most significant preventable threats to
health.
Focus area 11 of Healthy People
2010 was, "Use communication strategically to improve
health," and included 6 measurable objectives ranging from
increasing internet access in U.S. households, to incresing
the proportion of persons who report that their health care
providers have satisfactory communication skills. The latter
moved away from the targeted goal.
For more information about Health People 2010, please
click on this link: http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/projects/HealthComm/To
date there are no agreed upon health communication objectives
in Healthy People 2020. Thank you. Beth Lown,
MD Past President,
AACH |
 Patient-Centered Communication in Cancer Care:
Promoting Healing and Reducing Suffering
OF INTEREST TO AACH
MEMBERS
Effective
patient-clinician communication is central to the delivery of
high-quality care. It becomes even more crucial in the cancer
setting where patients have to deal with stress, uncertainty,
complex information, and life-altering medical decisions. To
encourage and inform future research that would help
facilitate the delivery of patient-centered communication
between cancer patients/family and the health care delivery
team(s) across the cancer care continuum,
the Division of Cancer Control
and Population Sciences of the National Cancer Institute
(NCI) has produced a new monograph, Patient-Centered
Communication in Cancer Care: Promoting Healing and Reducing
Suffering.
The
monograph lays the foundation for future innovative research
in the area of patient-centered communication in oncology as
well as other illness settings. Highlights of the
monograph include conceptualization of patient-centered
communication into six key functions; emphasis on research
that examines the relationship between patient-centered
communication and patient health outcomes; detailed discussion
of potential mediating and moderating mechanisms of the
association between communication and patient outcomes; and
identification of specific research priorities that would
guide NCI in planning future research initiatives in this
important area.
http://outcomes.cancer.gov/areas/pcc/communication/
This was authored
by AACH members Ronald Epstein and Richard Street.
For additional
information about NCI's projects related to patient-centered
communication in cancer care, contact Neeraj K. Arora, Ph.D.
at aroran@mail.nih.gov. |
Advanced Methods for Organizational Culture
Change
OF INTEREST TO AACH
MEMBERS
For 10 years, we
have been working as organizational change consultants,
helping healthcare organizations create relationship-centered
work and care environments in which people bring their "whole
selves" to work, teamwork flourishes and quality is
outstanding.
We've evolved a methodology that's proven successful in
large scale projects such as changing the informal curriculum
of a medical school; establishing a relationship-centered
culture at a new hospital (with measurable clinical and
financial improvement); and increasing the productivity and
creativity of a large credentialing organization.
To expand the
community of change agents who are using and further
developing these methods, we have created a 10-month
leadership institute called Leading Organizations to
Health that that offers leading-edge theories, advanced
facilitation skills and in-depth personal reflection. LOH
combines rigorous formal sessions - 4 weekends of seminars,
workshops and personal retreats in a rustic Rocky Mountain
conference center - with the longitudinal learning of monthly
coaching calls as you apply your learning in ongoing work
at home.
Previous participants have made profound changes
in how they go about their work, achieved results they
hadn't thought possible, and experienced a resurgence of hope
and joy. For more information, please visit www.RCHCweb.com.
We hope you'll join
us! |
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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 Dates: Saturday, January 19, 2008,
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 |
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
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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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