CALL FOR PAPERS
Creating Space VIII: April 27-28, 2018, Halifax, NS
Theme: Fostering Critical Thinking through the Arts and Humanities
Sub-themes:
- Teaching and Education
- Interprofessional Collaboration
- Engaging Community
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Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Alan Bleakley:
Title: Critical thinking in a ‘post-truth’ era: medicine’s dilemma
Dr. Pat Croskerry:
Title: Teaching the scarecrow: Critical thinking to improve clinical decision making
Dr. Jock Murray:
Title: Integrating the Humanities at Dalhousie University: A longstanding Debate
Rationale/Background
Creating Space (CS) is an annual meeting exploring the evolving use of arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS) in healthcare education and clinical care. Over the last seven years, CS has become an annual summit where scholars, artists and practitioners gather to discuss how to cultivate the best and most humanistic characteristics of health care professionals. There has been increasing emphasis on the importance of critical thinking in patient care and the significant number of medical errors that occur through errors in health professionals thinking. This meeting will focus on how the the Arts and Humanities can be used to foster critical thinking and provide opportunities for reflection and a willingness to challenge one anothers thinking.
Instructional Methods
The conference includes individuals from a variety of disciplines. This two day conference will include three keynote addresses, short papers, panel discussions, poster sessions, pecha kucha, workshops and performances. There will be opportunities to network with likeminded colleagues.
Target Audience
CSVIII seeks to include scholars, educators, artists and practitioners from multiple disciplines whose work involves in the intersection of the AHSS disciplines and health professions.
Learning Objectives
- Define what critical thinking in the health professions and humanities means.
- Describe the impact of cognitive bias on patient care.
- Provide examples of how the arts and humanities can foster critical thinking and positively impact patient care.
Types of proposals: Recognizing the emerging role of AHSS approaches and interdisciplinary scholarship,Creating Space VIII offers authors the opportunity to display creatively their research and educational achievements, experiences and thoughts. Abstracts may be presented in the form of:
- Research presentation: 15 minutes (10 mins plus 5 mins for questions)
- Novel humanities educational experiences: 15 minutes (10 mins plus 5 mins for questions)
- Panel presentation: 60 minutes
- Limited Group Workshop: 90 minutes (maximum of 25% didactic teaching).
- Pecha Kucha: 20 slides with 20 seconds each slide
- Performance: 30 minutes
- Poster presentation
Proposal Guidelines: Please use the Creating Spaces VIII Abstract Submission Form to submit your abstract.
Deadline for submission : Proposals are due no later than midnight Atlantic Time January 15th, 2018.
To Submit a Proposal : All proposals must be submitted to the following address: cpd@dal.ca
*Acceptance of proposals will be confirmed in late February, 2018.
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