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October 5 – 8, 2025

Call for Abstracts, Workshops, Symposia, and Creative Arts
Opens: February 3, 2025
Deadline: April 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm EST

Notification of Acceptance: early June 2025

The 23rd International Conference on Communication in Healthcare 2025 will feature research, teaching, and policy/practice innovations in communication in healthcare. We would like to invite you to submit scientific abstracts and proposals for workshops, symposia, and creative arts. We welcome submissions including all health disciplines and health professions (nurses, physicians, pharmacists, social workers, therapists, counselors, community health workers, patients, social scientists, etc.). Presentations will be organized around the topic areas. When submitting your abstract or proposal, you will be asked to identify a key term from the list below to facilitate organization of presentations. Please click here for detailed guidelines and selection criteria for scientific abstracts, workshops, symposia, and creative arts submissions.

 

Teaching and Assessment of Learners in Health Professions:

  • Assessing/evaluating clinical communication skills
  • Assessing/evaluating communication education methods
  • Novel approaches to teaching communication (e.g., simulations, remote learning)

 

Clinician/Healthcare Professional-Patient Interactions

  • Patient and person-centered communication
  • Sharing medical information
  • Gathering information / clinical reasoning
  • Communication about risk and uncertainty
  • Patients expressing emotions / cues and concerns
  • Responding to patient emotions / empathy
  • Triadic communication
  • Patient and caregiver evaluation of care
  • Interaction between healthcare communication and mental health
  • Communication with specific groups (e.g. age, culture, gender, race, dentistry, veterinary medicine, etc.)
  • Non-verbal communication

 

Shared Decision Making & Involvement of Patients and Caregivers

  • Concept and measurement
  • Occurrence, determinants, outcomes
  • Decision support / tools
  • Implementation of shared decision-making interventions
  • Caregiver involvement & perspective
  • Patient education/self-management
  • Patient empowerment

 

Intervention Research

  • Intervention testing
  • Implementation / de-implementation research

 

Health Policy

 

Research Methodology:

  • Development and validation of measurement instruments
  • Innovative research methodologies

 

Health Literacy:

  • Concept and measurement of health literacy
  • Occurrence, determinants, outcomes
  • Implementation of health literacy interventions

 

Health Equity & Health Disparities

  • Language discordant care & interpreters
  • Cross-cultural communication
  • Communication with underserved populations
  • Communication related to bias and discrimination

 

Health Information Technology:

  • Social media & Internet
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Telemedicine (incl. e-consultations, e-communications, patient portals, etc.)

 

Special Topics in Healthcare Communication:

  • Health promotion/prevention
  • Chronic illness and multi-morbidity
  • Palliative/end of life care
  • Ethics
  • Communication during pandemics
  • Population-level communication
  • Misinformation/Disinformation
  • Quality improvement and patient safety

 

Workforce and Work Environment:

  • Inter-/intra-disciplinary communication
  • Cultural humility and sensitivity in healthcare
  • Addressing workforce challenges