International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (ICCH) 2018

16th International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (ICCH) is organized by EACH: International Association for Communication in Healthcare, Academy of Communication in Healthcare (ACH) and will be held during Sep 01 - 04, 2018 at Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.

Course Description :
This international conference brings together teachers, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from around the world working to explore and improve all aspects of communication in healthcare from a variety of perspectives. The conference itself will set a friendly and communicative atmosphere for highlighting best practices and innovations in the field, exchange of ideas and networking. In addition to traditional presentation formats such as oral and poster presentations, symposia and interactive workshops we will include sessions on works in progress, innovative and creative formats, roundtable discussions, and national, language and discipline-based networking sessions. Participants will be challenged by plenary speakers into considering new ideas in assessment, research, policy, and patient engagement. Special programming will be aimed at engaging the next generation of academics, practitioners, and policymakers in communication in healthcare, students and other trainees.

Conference Topics :
Research in communication in healthcare:
• Basic and applied
• Research methodology

Education in healthcare communication across the curriculum continuum:
• Teaching clinical communication skills
• Assessing clinical communication skills

Clinical Practice and related health policy:
• Knowledge translation (research and interventions into clinical settings)
• Consumer/advocacy group engagement
• Evidence-based policy Development
• Implementation research (healthcare communication interventions into health organizations)
• Health economics of communication interventions

Patient and caregiver perspectives and engagement:
• Patient/family perspectives
• Patient/family participation and empowerment
• Patient decision aids

Healthcare provider communication:
• Gathering information/clinical reasoning
• Information provision
• Empathy and emotions
• Shared decision making
• Risk communication and medical decision-making
• Quality and safety
• Team and Inter-professional/interdisciplinary communication

Specific topics in communication in healthcare eg:
• Ethical issues
• Professionalism
• Diversity and cross-cultural communication including use of interpreters
• Health literacy
• Health behavior change
• Psychophysiology
• Chronic illness and continuity

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.