• Medical_Professionals
• Medical_students
• Nurses

We proudly announce the 14th International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (ICCH) organized by the European Association for Communication in Healthcare (EACH), which will take place from 7th till 10th September 2016 in Heidelberg, Germany.

Following a successful 2014 meeting in Amsterdam, attended by over 600 participants from 43 countries worldwide, Heidelberg will host the next EACH conference in September 2016. The conference is hosted by the University Hospital of Heidelberg, Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics and the Medical Faculty Heidelberg.

EACH is an interdisciplinary non-profit organization which brings together researchers and trainers in the field of communication in healthcare. A hallmark of EACH conferences is to foster interaction and exchange among participants. By doing so, the conference provides an excellent opportunity to reach the objectives of EACH: to facilitate the exchange of ideas and products of teaching and research activities across a network of individuals and institutions in Europe and beyond.

EACH is associated with and supported by the scientific journal Patient Education and Counseling. In organizing the conferences, EACH works closely together with the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare (AACH), who is the main organizer for the ICCH conferences in the uneven years.

Our conferences capture the teaching as well as the research part of communication in healthcare and focus not only on doctors, but as much on nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists, dentists, etc. The conferences are therefore of interest to trainers, teachers, health care professionals and researchers.

Conference topics:

- 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

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Group registrations not allowed

Accompanying persons not allowed

We don’t accept Online Abstracts

Heidelberg University    

348, Im Neuenheimer Feld Heidelberg Germany

Submission Info

We invite you to submit your work to the 14th International Conference on Communication in Healthcare. The following guidelines will help you through the submission process for oral presentations, posters, workshops, symposia, work in progress for students and early career participants and "something creative - the fringe".

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).

Presentations will be organized around the following topic areas. When you submit your abstract, you will be asked to identify a corresponding primary theme and secondary theme, if relevant, from the list below, to facilitate organization of presentations.

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

Linguistics and sociolinguistics

EACH Contact Information

Address:

The Old George Brewery,

Rollestone Street,

Salisbury

SP1 1DX, UK

EACH Contact Information

Address:

The Old George Brewery,

Rollestone Street,

Salisbury

SP1 1DX, UK