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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

 

 

The ICCVM is pleased to invite abstracts in consideration for workshop, podium and poster presentations at the conference at Solage Calistoga, Napa Valley, California, Sunday October 31 to Tuesday November 2, 2010. The ICCVM focus is sharing research and innovation, building community and promoting dialogue on important communication issues.

Conference Goals:
Presentation abstracts must reflect the goals of the conference:

  • To provide knowledge and thoughtful insight into the powerful results of enhancing communication in veterinary medicine; to assist all veterinary professionals, teams in veterinary medicine, and clients.

  • To contribute to the development of educational programs that ensures veterinarians and their practice team are excellent communicators, whether working with colleagues or clients.

  • To promote the development of communication research in practice and teaching.

  • To foster connections between communication teaching, research and practice in veterinary medicine for the purpose of establishing a critical mass that will continue to collaborate toward enhancing communication in veterinary medicine, within and beyond the annual ICCVM conference.

Focused Topics:

  • Relationship centered teaching, learning, practice and leadership
  • Assessment strategies for communication competence
  • Integrative communication curricula
  • Curriculum development
  • Faculty development
  • Methodology for basic and applied research in communication
  • Interdisciplinary communication research
  • Grant writing and publication
  • Practice based communication research
  • Best communication practices
  • Coaching and feedback
  • Client participation and perspectives
  • Communication challenges - financial conversations, end-of-life discussions, ethical issues
  • Team based communication

Workshop sessions: (90 minutes long)
Facilitate a range of interactive activities to provide insight into clinical communication in practice, research and education. Workshop sessions should be 75% interactive and provide opportunity for audience participation. Submissions must specify the strategies that will be used to engage participants and involve them in the learning process.

Podium presentations: (10 minutes long plus 5 minutes for discussion)
Space is limited and submissions will be judged based upon the categories of the abstract. Each category will include 3-4 presentations followed by group discussion.

Presentations should be submitted in PowerPoint using 24pt font. To avoid technical difficulties, all presenters are required to submit their presentations to the Conference Secretariat in advance and to bring a copy of their presentation on disk or USB to the conference. 

Poster presentation: (to be displayed onsite & open for discussion)
This offers practitioners, institutions and researchers the opportunity to share best practices, organizational innovations and research projects. Displays may consist of a one-piece poster, or a two dimensional collection of smaller pieces which utilize the panel as a background.

The posters will be showcased during designated conference hours. During this period, presenters should be available at their displays to discuss them with delegates.

Space is limited and will be assigned by the advisory committee based on the abstracts using the following criteria:

All presentations will be made available post-conference on the ICCVM web site. Presentations may be modified if there is sensitive or copyright restricted data. Consent to post slides should be indicated in your abstract submission form.

Specific Guidelines for abstract submission:

 

 

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