Workshops

Workshops are interactive educational sessions that actively engage participants in a topic related to communication in healthcare. To be accepted at this conference, workshops must be truly experiential. Didactic presentation during the workshop should be considerably limited compared to other conference presentations. Workshop participants should be enabled to actively and substantially contribute and have the opportunity to practice ideas or skills during the session. We aim to promote experiential learning through application, practice, feedback, and peer interaction through conference workshops.

Workshops may focus on research methods, teaching strategies, policy and practice issues, or other skill-building. Workshops must enable participants to apply the skills acquired and practised in their institutional contexts. The audience at ICCH is composed of teachers, researchers, clinicians and policy makers in healthcare communication and submitted workshops should be geared to this audience. While workshops that have been given in the facilitators’ teaching practice to learners, such as students or clinicians, can be submitted, the abstract and workshop session needs to explicitly include an exploration of how teachers, researchers and/or policy makers could use workshop content and methods in teaching/research at their institution.  The available time is 90 minutes.

The review criteria includes:

• Relevance to research and/or teaching and/or policy and practice in the area of healthcare communication:  To what extent would this workshop focus on a topic that would advance teaching and/or research /or policy practices in healthcare communication?
• Clarity of learning objectives: Are the learning objectives clearly stated and actionable?  Do the learning objectives follow directly from the purpose and proposed content of the workshop?
• Emphasis on activities to promote active participant engagement: Does the abstract present a plan for engaging workshop participants?  Does this plan go beyond saving time for large group discussion/Q and A?
• Feasibility/sequence of planned activities: Are the proposed activities feasible within the allotted timeframe?  Will they likely fill the time allotted? Are the teaching methods to be used clearly described?  Are the teaching methods appropriate to achieve the learning objectives and appropriate for interactive workshops (limited didactic presentations).
• Plan for reflection on what participants will gain?  Do the authors describe how they will encourage participant reflection on what they have gained?  Do they describe a clear evaluation plan?

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

Title: A title of 100 characters (including spaces) or less
Presenter details: Title, first and last names, email address, department and organisation.
Presentation Type:  Workshop
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 400 words (anything over this word limit will be automatically rejected) 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.