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Patient Education and Counseling

Patient Education and Counseling is the official journal of the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare.

Patient Education and Counseling is an interdisciplinary, international journal for patient education and health promotion researchers, managers, physicians, nurses and other health care providers.

The journal seeks to explore and elucidate educational, counseling and communication models in health care. Its aim is to provide a forum for fundamental as well as applied research, and to promote the study of the delivery of patient education, counseling, and health promotion services, including training models and organizational issues in improving communication between providers and patients. More

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Subscribe to PEC

As the official journal of AACH, Patient Education and Counseling (PEC) is offered to AACH members at a special discount.

Subscribe and receive 12 issues (print and online) for $108.

Please e-mail Sherry Erker, member services manager, for more information (erker@drakeco.com).

To view an online sample copy of PEC, visit http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pec

AACH members subscribing to Patient Education and Counseling can now access the journal through ScienceDirect - a resource for research journals, abstract databases and reference works. More

Reflective Practice

Patient Education and Counseling, presents a new section of narratives on reflective practice.

Reflective Practice will provide a voice for physicians and other healthcare providers, patients and their family members, trainees and medical educators.

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.