CFP International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (Germany)

Call for abstracts
European Association for Communication in Health Care (EACH) and International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (ICCH)
September 7-10, 2016
Heidelberg, Germany

Call for Abstracts:
–        oral presentations
–        posters
–        workshops
–        symposia
–        work in progress for students and early career participants
–        “something creative – the fringe”

Opens: November 1, 2015
Deadline: January 18, 2016
Notification of Acceptance: April 1, 2016

We proudly announce the 14th International Conference on Communication in Healthcare 2015, which will highlight current innovations in research, teaching, and policy and practice in communication in healthcare from throughout the world.

We would like to invite you to submit abstracts for our wide variety of submission categories: oral presentations, posters, workshops, symposia, work in progress for students and early career participants and “something creative – the fringe”.

A hallmark of ICCH conferences is to foster interaction and exchange among participants and they have a unique, welcoming atmosphere for the whole healthcare communication community. The conferences aim to create a learning community that fosters scholarship and inter-professional collaboration to advance knowledge and innovation. We welcome submissions related to communication in health care, including all health-related disciplines and all healthcare professions (e.g. nurses, physicians, pharmacists, physiotherapists, dentists, midwives). We encourage abstracts from pre-graduate students, trainees and researchers, teachers, learners and practitioners at all levels and encourage their full participation in the meeting.

Prospective authors can submit abstracts and proposals through our electronic submission process. Please click here for detailed guidelines and selection criteria for each of the categories listed above.

Conference topics at this years’ ICCH include:
–         Basic and applied research in communication in healthcare
–         Research methodology
–         Teaching clinical communication skills
–         Assessing clinical communication skills
–         Implementation science and knowledge translation in health communication
–         Patient perspectives
–         Patient participation and empowerment
–         Patient decision aids
–         Ethical issues in communication
–         Diversity and cross-cultural communication
–         Communication and quality and safety
–         Gathering information/clinical reasoning
–         Communication and emotion
–         Empathy
–         Communication in chronic conditions
–         Information provision
–         Shared decision making
–         Health literacy
–         Health behaviour change
–         Risk communication and medical decision-making
–         Team and Inter-professional/interdisciplinary communication
–         Communication technology, e-learning, serious gaming and social media
–         Psychophysiology