Creative Healthcare Communication

The Creative Healthcare Communication sessions at ICCH use inventive, playful, and artistic methods of healthcare communication. The Creative Healthcare Communication sessions are a particularly suitable space for exploring health communication because they provide an opportunity to see things differently – offering a new and potentially provocative approach to the intersections between healthcare and communication.

There is no prescribed format, and presenters may use their presentation time however they wish as long as the emphasis focuses on creativity, performance, and audience engagement. We particularly encourage submissions related to patient-provider communication and clinical or therapeutic relationships. The presentation duration with be either 15 or 30 minutes.  For either duration, the abstract should include justification and a clear rationale for how the time will be used.

Creative Healthcare communication submissions can be of two major types: visual or performance arts. Visual arts contributions will be displayed as posters during poster sessions. When submitting, please select the type of submission you feel best represents your work:

Visual Arts

• Photography, paintings, small 3-dimensional objects or other similar mediums
• Note that for accepted visual arts items, security of the item on-site, shipping expenses, as well as display set-up materials will be the responsibility of the presenter

Performance Arts

• Personal reflections, stories of one’s own or others’ experiences of health or illness narratives, short theatrical performances, innovative interactive exercises, poetry, puppetry, music, dance or dramatic representations of dialogues or experiences
  
  

 The review criteria includes:

Fields for completion within the electronic form:
The electronic form will contain 5 areas:

Title: A title of 100 characters (including spaces) or less
Author(s) details: For all authors-title, first and last names, email address, department and organisation.
Presentation Type:  Creative Healthcare Communication – Visual Arts or Creative Healthcare Communication – Performing Arts
Topic: You will be asked to select 1 from a list of submission topics, that best describe your work.
Body: The body of the structured abstract should be limited to 300 words (submissions exceeding this word limit will not be processed) and should follow the categories, directions, and word limits detailed in the instructions based on category of abstract. Please ensure you have read and follow these instructions as they vary based on the category type of each abstract.