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Monday, May 23
09:00 - 12:00 | |
14:00 - 17:00 |
Monday, May 23
09:00-12:00 - Pre-Congress Workshop | |||||||||||||||||
The Economics of Health Care Through Collaboration
Research
Integrative health cannot happen without collaboration between a number of groups including health policy makers, healthcare systems, providers of different types, third-party payers (including self-insured employers) and patients and their families. Good collaboration depends on the involved groups all seeing a net benefit - experiencing benefits that outweigh their costs and each group experiences different benefits and costs. The techniques of economic evaluation can help the various parties understand these relationships. Therefore, in addition to efforts to demonstrate the safety, efficacy and effectiveness of integrative health approaches, we must also provide information on costs and net benefits to the collaborators involved. The overall goals of this workshop are threefold: 1) to introduce participants to the basics of economic evaluation with an emphasis on identifying the appropriate perspectives of the analysis; 2) to enable participants to better interpret the economic evaluation literature; and 3) to prepare those interested in performing an economic evaluation. This workshop will use a combination of lecture and individual and whole and small group exercises to give participants a strong foundation in economic evaluation in general, and the cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, and cost-benefit analysis of collaborative health care specifically. Participants will also benefit from a list of resources offering additional information on the topics covered.
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Promoting Successful IM Careers: Aligning Values, Goals and Strategies for Self-care
Education
Developing a successful career in integrative medicine is a journey. Whether pursuing clinical practice, research, education, or policy, there are common aspects of career development that trainees can learn to navigate skillfully in order to promote success. One key aspect is self-care. Trainees encounter rigorous demands of their training program, clinical or research work, and personal life, which can contribute to elevated stress and burnout. Learning evidence-based strategies for self-care can improve coping and reduce stress for trainees. A second key aspect of career development is mentorship. Mentors are critical for helping trainees set and achieve career goals, identify training opportunities, learn necessary skills, and access resources. Being able to identify appropriate mentors and fostering healthy mentor-mentee relationships is critical for trainees' success. Lastly, the ability to set meaningful and achievable career goals is also critical. Gaining clarity about one's personal values and aligning them with professional mission and actionable goals can promote the sense of meaning and purpose needed for a successful and fulfilling career. This 3-hour workshop, led by a diverse panel of integrative medicine faculty, will incorporate didactic presentations, engaging experiential activities, and interactive discussions to help trainees develop successful integrative medicine careers by learning skills for self-care, identifying and working with mentors, and goal-setting. The intent is for trainees to leave with new knowledge, skills, and insights to promote a skillful professional development journey and fulfilling integrative medicine career.
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Effectively Translating Your Research: How to Build Your Research "Story" and Leverage Communications Channels to Reach the Public
Education
Investigators often face many challenges to simply succeed in publishing research articles. And while publication of results is an excellent goal, the opportunity to make important scientific contributions does not stop with publication. Effectively sharing relevant research findings with non-researcher audiences-the public, patients, health care providers, other stakeholders (including funders)-is an important step in equipping these audiences with the information they need for good decision-making. This workshop will focus on how an investigator can effectively share results with nonscientific audiences to garner appropriate attention for the science, help the public understand the results, and encourage informed decision-making rooted in scientific evidence. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) Office of Communications and Public Liaison team and NCCIH Division of Extramural Research Outreach Program Manager will present communications best practices to aid investigators in harnessing resources, maintaining credibility, collaborating with institutional partners, and honing skills for effectively communicating results to lay audiences, particularly in the COVID-era. Workshop goals: ⢠Develop effective messages and leverage the elements of "story" to promote understanding/recall ⢠Work with communications teams at home institutions to promote and share research results ⢠Effectively and appropriately use social media channels while avoiding common pitfalls ⢠Conduct a good media interview using proven tips and techniques ⢠Effectively engage with your NIH program director/funding institution ⢠Consider how your research story may connect to bigger issues in public health or society such as addressing health disparities or issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Each part of the workshop with offer insights, instruction, and opportunities for participants to directly work on their messages and develop skills for serving as a better spokesperson, both for their own research and their home institutions.
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Trauma-informed Care for Complementary and Integrative Health: Guidance and Tools for Practice
Clinical
Given the pervasiveness of trauma exposure, it is imperative that all health care become trauma informed. Complementary and Integrative Health (CIH), with its emphasis on the whole-person (mind-body-spirit health), has a particular opportunity to lead the way in implementing Trauma Informed Care (TIC). This workshop on integrating TIC into CIH builds on their shared values of relationship-centered care and integrative care to deeply support lasting healing from the sequela of trauma. For CIH to implement TIC, everyone involved in care ((clinicians - MD, RN, PT, OT, LMT, LAc, etc. and Administrators) ) need training, not just mental health clinicians. By incorporating TIC, we have the opportunity within the CIH health care community to disseminate and model how care can and should be delivered. This workshop will combine didactic, large group and small group discussions and experientials to equip participants with the knowledge and tools to bring TIC into their practice.
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Fostering Holistic Healthy Lifestyles for Clients Through Health and Wellness Coaching Practices - A Workshop
Clinical
Health Coaching empowers individuals to gain awareness, and successfully change beliefs and behaviors to gain greater wellbeing. Current health care too often focuses on targeted disease management and minimization of morbidity, but leaves the empowerment and healing evolution of the patient out of the equation. Supporting individuals to make intentional and sustainable lifestyle changes is a critical responsibility not just for coaches, but for all health care providers. Health Coaching returns the focus to a values-driven, strengths-based, activation of patients, creating the possibility for achieving their highest wellbeing. Co-facilitators of this workshop share decades of coaching experience, and have successfully taught a range of health professionals to use these tools in a variety of clinical settings. Through the introduction of the 4 Pillars of Health Coaching model, we weave in experiential practices so that participants can leave able to immediately apply practical tools to their personal and professional lives, supporting healing and wellbeing for patients/clients and selves alike. Using authentic communication practices in an intentional container of self-awareness and mindful presence, all health care providers can change the quality and effectiveness of their patient/client interactions. Bringing such awareness into their own lives can build resilience and increase job satisfaction.
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Thriving in Work: Applying the Transformational Science of Happiness to Our Lives, Teams, and Clinical Practices.
Clinical
This workshop will explore the complexity of optimizing happiness and thriving in medicine, and the criticality of these practices to patients, clinicians, and to the transformative evolution of clinical practice. Using understandings derived from positive psychology and neurobiology, the determinants and components of experienced, eudaimonic, and evaluative happiness will be explored. Through a unique application of positive psychology techniques, the participants will engage in learning strategies for creating happiness in ourselves, our patients, and our teams, ultimately transforming our personal and professional lives. These strategies will be reinforced with hands-on learning activities including herbal medicine, nutrition, movement, and community building. Participants will engage in several reflective activities and goal planning for personal and professional transformation that will leave the learner feeling rejuvenated and equipped with a toolkit to bring back to their clinical work and teams.
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Planning Successful Funded Research Careers in Complementary and Integrative Health
Education
The workshop will provide an overview of funding options to promote early career development, including a discussion of private foundation support, NIH funding opportunities, and International funding support (Drs. Lanay Mudd and Claudia Witt). The workshop will describe NCCIH strategic priorities for early career development opportunities (Dr. Emmeline Edwards), as well as an overview of funding opportunities (K-awards and New Innovator Award; Dr. Lanay Mudd) and the NIH review process with key characteristics of strong K-award applications (Dr. Patrick Still). Grantees at different stages of their careers will lead a panel discussion of their experiences with private foundation, NCCIH and International funding sources, along with tips for successful career transitions (Drs. Tina Luberto, Jefferey Proulx, Richard Harris, Amanda Shallcross, and Claudia Witt). Breakout sessions specific to research and clinical care, clinical research, and basic and mechanistic research will be co-led by funded investigators and NCCIH staff to discuss the following topic areas: juggling demands and finding balance, finding mentors for different career stages, and planning grant submissions (Drs. Carol Greco, Wendy Weber, Lanay Mudd and Wen Chen along with panel speakers). Attendees have the option to sign up for NCCIH consultations during the conference.
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Case Reporting and Knowledge Sharing in Integrative Medicine
Research
Case reports are an achievable tool for practitioners, working at the core of medicine, to provide transparent insight into key observations, innovations, patient-centered care, models of care, but also challenges of care, risks and adverse events. They are the primary tool for communication with colleagues, to provide insight and trust in practice methods, as well as for educational purposes, to present the significance of clinical research results and also to provide patients perspective. As such they are essential for information. Besides medical literature, case reports, sharing cases and case-based reasoning are the most prevalent forms of informational presentations in virtual medical communities moving together, which is currently transforming medical knowledge. Cases of insufficient information and quality may be substantially misleading. It is of utmost importance to gain high quality, achieve accurateness, comprehensiveness and transparency to provide trustworthy information and enable the reader for an own judgement. CARE guidelines have been developed to support authors and have been specified for a variety of clinical fields. The workshop will provide guidance on how to write case reports following these guidelines, how to provide transparency, and how to assess case reports from literature or virtual communication. They will receive guidance on how decide on cases, prepare them for publication, on publication processes and case preprint repositories. They will be trained on what to look for when reading case reports or shared cases. Participants are invited to prepare own cases using an abstract and a timeline. The workshop has three parts: 1) CARE guidelines and preprints 2) How to prepare case reports for publication 3) How to critically assess case reports
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Full Circle: From Learning Objectives to Assessment--Essentials for Integrative Health Educators
Education
A healthcare provider's educational journey is maintained as a lifelong learning process. This begins through initial schooling, and continues through the professional career trajectory. Updating one's knowledge and skills is essential to improved patient care, while establishing or maintaining the ability to practice. IM/IH trainees and providers seek to expand their knowledge and skills, consistent with their learning stage. To respond to these needs, the education must be clear in how it seeks to achieve the intended educational goals--reflecting research updates, supporting informed dialogues, and enhancing service delivery. There are two important dimensions in creating any educational material. The first dimension is the creation of learning or educational objectives or outcomes. Educational objectives, which communicate what the learner should be able to do as a result of the educational activity, can be arranged in a hierarchy that moves from less to more complex levels of knowledge. Originally termed as Bloom's Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain, this was revised in 2001 to reflect more outcome-focused modern education objectives. The revised levels are: Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate and Create. The second important dimension is the assessment of the outcome. Outcomes assessment is a systematic approach for documenting what learners get out of the educational session. An outcomes-based assessment attempts to answer "What did the learners actually learn?" Furthermore, it looks to address whether the outcome was measurable, identifiable, and a result of the learning. This workshop is intended for any healthcare professional who plans to create or deliver educational material to a learner audience. There are two aims. Through an interactive, small-group learning platform, participants will practice developing clear learning objectives/outcomes. Second, they will learn to formulate assessments that capture the intention and effectiveness of the learning outcome and the delivery of the learning material.
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