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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
Thoughts on the
Upcoming ICCH:
Mounting
excitement greets the upcoming Charleston International
Conference on Communication in Healthcare (ICCH) Forum. Over
400 abstracts, workshops and interest groups were
submitted. We
will hear internationally prominent speakers, Carolyn Clancy,
Richard Seltzer and Theo Schofield. This is the second ICCH
Forum, combining the resources of AACH and The European
Association for Communication in Healthcare (EACH), to be held
in the US. The first was hosted at Northwestern in Chicago by
Greg Makoul, who invited AACH to cosponsor. As I reminisce, I
look back on the old Forums held on Saturday mornings
following SGIM national meetings at Georgetown in Washington,
DC. After the rush of the national SGIM, we anticipated with
pleasure gathering with 40 or 50 old friends for less formal
discussions of projects and proposals and generally a great
social occasion. I can taste the coffee and muffins, served in
the back of the auditorium, and feel the excitement. So, when
we moved to the AACH Forum independent of the SGIM meeting's
time and place, I was initially saddened to lose our old
Saturday Forums. But, clearly, it was the right move. Today,
we can see hundreds of new and old friends, and leading edge
research presented at a Forum that combines the warmth of the
old "Task Force" with feelings of renewal, participation by a
younger generation of multidisciplinary leaders, and the sense
of solid accomplishment as we prepare for myriads of
presentations related to all aspects of research and teaching
in relationship-centered care.
With
all best wishes,
Bill
Branch, President,
AACH | |
Create Your
Personalized ICCH Schedule
AACH
Review and select the abstracts you want to see before
you even arrive. The schedule is available here. |
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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Go to our
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At AACH, we are
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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
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communication competencies that a recent Institute of Medicine
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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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liability insurers adding personality tests to application
process
AACH
MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
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 AACH Member
Newsflash
MEMBER NEWS
Lisa
Cooper won a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" for
her work on health disparities. She's our first member to win
this prestigious award. For more
information...
Ron
Saizow was awarded the
Professional Health
Care Champion - for improving the well-being of Tulsa's
indigent patients, effecting change, and improving outcomes in
Tulsa, Oklahoma through an innovative teaching
model. |
Communications
and Healthcare: Opening the Dialogue
OF
INTEREST TO AACH MEMBERS
Harnessing Complexity and Relationship-centered
Care to Improve Health
November 1-2, 2007
Pier 5 at Harbor
Club
Baltimore, MD
Dear
Friends,
We hope you
are still remembering the many stimulating conversations we
had during the Plexus - AACH - National Academies workshop
last fall on healthcare teams, complexity and relationship
centered care. You may recall that at this gathering we
decided to expand our reach and bring in a
strong community orientation into the next round of
conversations. Plans are now set to accomplish
this.
A hearty task
force of those attending the Indianapolis conference was
formed earlier in the year. This group has planned a
two-day event to be held in Baltimore on November 1 & 2,
2007. The title of the conference is "Communities and
Healthcare: Opening the Dialogue". The subtitle is "Harnessing
Complexity and Relationship-Centered Care to Improve
Health".
You will find a
short description of the event and a link to the full
brochure at http://www.plexusinstitute.org/NewsEvents/Conferences/show.cfm?id=348.
We
think
you'll be pleased with what has been planned by your
colleagues.
You can help us
take this next step by:
- Making plans to
attend
- Sharing an
invitation broadly - please circulate to friends,
colleagues, lists, etc
- Working to bring
some community partners with you. These may be leaders or
members of community organizations you are working with or
are seeking to work with in your efforts to improve
collaboration and community health. Please note that we have
some limited funds for scholarships and help with travel
expenses. You will find details about the scholarships in
the brochure. You may also know of local resources that can
be tapped to support attendance by community partners.
- Letting us know
if you have ideas about how we can get the word out......and
attract great participation
Our hope it to
take a next step that opens up new possibilities for improving
health through partnerships.
Hope to see you in
Baltimore!
Curt Lindberg
and Tony
Suchman |
Study: Improving Doctor-Patient Communication
Yields Significant Health
Benefits
OF INTEREST TO AACH
MEMBERS
A UCSF research
team has developed a simple tool that can improve the
effectiveness of communication between doctors and patients
about prescribed medications and result in dramatic
improvements in health and safety.
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A
Tool Kit of Resources for Relationship-Centered
Care
OF INTEREST TO AACH MEMBERS
Please
contribute to our tool kit of resources for
Relationship-Centered Care!
Do
you have program, website, teaching tools, references or other
resources you would like to include in our resource guide?
Disseminate your work and that of your colleagues in:
"Humanistic Medical Education and Practice: A Tool Kit of
Resources for Relationship-Centered Care"
Let
us know for which chapter we should consider your
resource:
*
programs for teaching/disseminating relationship- centered
care
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teaching materials
*
assessment tools
*
websites
*
film, video, TV selections
*
definitions of humanism in healthcare
*
bibliography (annotated) - which section? (communication
skills; professionalism; feedback and reflection;
narrative medicine; working together in teams; observation
skills; organizational change; art, film, literature; or
miscellaneous)
Please
email your resources to:
Elizabeth
Rider, MSW, MD:
elizabeth_rider@hms.harvard.edu
or
Lyuba
Konopasek,
MD:
lyk2003@med.cornell.edu |
Interprofessional Education
Conference
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
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Learning Communities in Medicine
Meeting
OF INTEREST TO AACH
MEMBERS
The annual meeting of the learning communities in
medicine.
November 1,
2007
Baltimore,
MD
Topics
Include:
Relationship-Centered
Practice
Community
Building
Student Peer
Advising
Advising and
Mentoring
And much
more!
View the
brochure. |
The Art of Medicine at the End of
Life
OF INTEREST TO AACH MEMBERS
The Art of
Medicine at the End of Life
A
CME Symposium offering 8 AMA PRA Category 1
Credits™
November
2, 2007
The University
Club of New York
New
York,
NY
For more
information and to register: www.cme.hsc.usf.edu/artofmedicine
Contact: Maria
Uravich (muravich@health.usf.edu;
813-974-6682)
The Art of
Medicine at the End of Life, a CME course,
will be held on November 2, 2007 at the University Club of New
York. This course is designed for physicians and brings
together a nationally recognized faculty to discuss topics
vital to assist physicians in becoming more sensitive and
responsive to the cultural, spiritual, and practical aspects
of the physician-patient relationship at the end of
life. |
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 Dates:
Saturday,
January 19, 2008
(please note date change)
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.
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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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@med.fsu.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, Assistant Dean for Curriculum and
Evaluation; Director, Office of Medical Education
Florida State University
College of Medicine
Tallahassee Florida,
32306-4300
850-644-649 or
email to
david.steele@med.fsu.edu |
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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