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News and Events
News
Hora de Hablar CARDIO Launches Across U.S.
Hora de Hablar CARDIO’s Spanish-speaking spokesperson, Astrid Almodóvar, M.D., M.P.A., kicked off the national launch with a satellite media tour comprised of 21 television and radio stations to announce the program to key Hispanic markets. Dr. Almodóvar discussed the need for better dialogue between patients and health care professionals, the benefit of this communication skill-building program to the Hispanic community, and included examples from her clinical experience piloting the Time to Talk CARDIO program in her practice, earlier this year. Dr. Almodóvar further emphasized that Hora de Hablar CARDIO is a free, educational program made possible by Merck, the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, Canyon Ranch Institute and RIASWorks.
For more information, see the press release.
Also, visit the Spanish-language website.
National Award for Innovative Program
RIASWorks is proud to be part of the award-winning Time to Talk CARDIO (Creating A Real Dialogue In the Office) program. The program, an unbranded, educational initiative underwritten by Merck/Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals, was developed by RIASWorks in partnership with the American Academy of Family Physicians and Canyon Research Institute. The program was nationally recognized in May by the Institute for Health Advancement as the recipient of the 2010 Health Literacy Award for Innovation in Research. The program includes two separate online, communication skill-building tools, one directed to health care providers and the second to patients, that feature more than 550 brief video clips demonstrating best practices to optimize communication during primary care visits. In addition, the program provides a variety of print educational resources and a strong dissemination network comprised of health professional and patient advocacy groups. The skill building tool and related video demonstrations, designed by RIASWorks was based on its LEAPS© framework, reflecting the key communication areas of Listen, Educate, Assess, Partner and Support. RIASWorks is currently working on the development of Spanish language version of the tool.
Upcoming Events
RIAS Training
RIAS Training will be held January 11 and 12, 2012, at Northwestern University in Chicago. Contact RIASWorks
at riasworks@comcast.net for further information.
2011 Research in Medical Education Conference
The 50th Annual Conference on Research in Medical Education (RIME) will be held in conjunction with the 122nd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) scheduled for November 4–9, 2011 in Denver, Colorado. The Conference is planned and organized by the RIME Program Planning Committee, a committee of the AAMC Group on Educational Affairs. The purpose of the Conference is to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of research concerning all aspects of medical education.
Dr. Debra Roter will be a presenting speaker at the conference. She will give a presentation on Time to Talk Cardio: Impact of a Novel Communication Tool on Patient and Clinician-Reported Satisfaction and Medical Visit Behavior. Click here to view an abstract.
Archives
OCTOBER 2011 –
Debra Roter was be a presenting speaker at the International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (ICCH) in Chicago October 16–19, 2011. ICCH is the largest gathering of researchers, educators and administrators from around the world focusing on improving communication in healthcare.
Dr. Roter gave the following two presentations:
• Behavioral impact of a genetics focused, web CME for physician assistants: a randomized trial. Click here to view the abstract.
• Time to Talk Cardio: web-tool impact on patient/physician reported visit satisfaction and behavior. Click here to view the abstract.
The 2011 conference was hosted by Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare (AACH), n partnership with the European Association for Communication in Healthcare (EACH).
After attending the conference, participants are now able to:
• Convene an interdisciplinary meeting that will build the body of knowledge around best practices for educating patients and families on health and healthcare.
• Share lessons learned on various strategies that aim to improve health communication, in the broadest sense.
• Describe the successes and challenges of implementing various communication strategies in certain healthcare settings or amidst working with particular patient populations.
• Identify the most important directions for health communication research, through discourse.
SEPTEMBER 2010 - The 2010 International Conference on Communication in Healthcare was organised by EACH (the European Association for Communication in Healthcare) in association with Patient Education and Counseling, and was hosted by the University of Verona 5–8 September. Dr. Debra Roter spoke on Communicating with Patients About Mental Health Disorders in Community-Based Primary Care and Psychiatry at the conference. EACH is an interdisciplinary non-profit organisation which brings together researchers and trainers in the field of communication in healthcare. Its objectives are to facilitate the exchange of ideas and products of teaching and research activities across a network of individuals and institutions in Europe and beyond.
SEPTEMBER 2010 - The 13th annual meeting of the National Coalition for Health Professional Education in Genetics (NCHPEG) was held September 23 and 24 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Bethesda, Maryland. The meeting focused on Genetics and Public Health. Dr. Debra Roter spoke on A Novel Evaluation of Genetics Education for Health Professionals.
AUGUST 2010 - Dr. Debra Roter was the Keynote Speaker at 16th International Social Pharmacy Workshop. Dr. Roter spoke on Interpersonal Communication Research and Practice at the 16th annual International Social Pharmacy Workshop at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, in August 2010. The 16th ISPW brought together scholars around the world that share a common passion of improving pharmacy practice and related health outcomes. The workshop set a special emphasis on the role of communication and information, as ubiquitous and directly engaged with health care practitioners and quality of health care. (Watch the video of Dr. Roter's presentation at the top of this page.)
JULY 2010 - In partnership with the American Academy of Physicians Assistants (AAPA) and the National Coalition for Health Professional Education in Genetics (NCHPEG), RIASWorks is conducting an educational assessment of clinical care, particularly in regard to the integration of genetics-related family history assessment into routine Physician Assistant (PA) practice. Fifty PAs who attended the annual conference participated in the study by being videotaped while interviewing a RIASWorks standardized patient. Over the next year, RIASWorks will analyze the sessions and work with our partners to provide a detailed description of PA practice patterns to identify practice strengths and opportunities for future genetics-related continuing medical education programs.
DECEMBER 2009 - Dr. Debra Roter Dr. Roter presented at the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians (NCAFP) 2009 Winter Family Physicians Weekend in Asheville, NC, on December 5, 2009. This is in conjunction with The Time to Talk CARDIO program—Creating A Real Dialogue In the Office—a new program to help patients and health care professionals make the most of their conversations by building communication skills to help manage heart health.
The Time to Talk CARDIO tool was modeled after LEAPS©, a framework developed by Debra Roter, DrPH, MPH, of RIASWorks, to assist health care professionals and patients in improving their in-clinic conversations. LEAPS addresses five key areas: Listen, Educate, Assess, Partner and Support. Both health care professionals and patients can benefit from improved in-office dialogue.
“Research shows that good physician communication is related to greater satisfaction with their patient visits,” said Dr. Roter of RIASWorks. “Studies have found that patient recall of instructions, satisfaction with care, adherence to medical recommendations, appointment-keeping and clinical outcomes are consistently related to communication skills.”
NOVEMBER 2009 - Dr. Roter spoke at the Society for Women’s Health Research Corporate Advisory Council Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, in November 2009, on solutions to improve medical adherence.
Dr. Roter lectured at Sungkyunkan University (Samsung), School of Medicine, at Korea University, Department of Medicine, and spoke at the Global Breast Cancer Conference in Seoul, South Korea, in October 2009.
Dr. Debra Roter presented a series of lectures in Seoul, South Korea, in October:
• Tuesday, Oct 6, 2009: Lecture at the Sungkyunkwan University (Samsung), School of Medicine.
• Wednesday, Oct 7, 2009: Lecture and Workshop at Korea University, Department of Medicine.
• Saturday, October 10, 2009: Lecture at the Global Breast Cancer Conference entitled “Communication Roles of Family across the Cancer Care Continuum.”