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COMET Conference 2023 to be hosted by UCC!
UCC is delighted to host the COMET Conference which aims to bring together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, involving various healthcare specialities and the human and social sciences.
A special emphasis will be on the dissemination of ongoing research in language / discourse / communication studies in relation to healthcare education, patient participation and professional ethics.
The 2023 conference will be hosted by University College Cork (Ireland), and will take place in the Western Gateway Building.
- Dates: 20-22 June, 2023
- Venue: Western Gateway Building, University College Cork, Ireland
- Contact: comet2023@ucc.ie
To find out more, visit https://www.ucc.ie/en/comet2023/
Plenary Speakers
- Professor Mary Catherine Beach, Johns Hopkins University, USA
- Professor Chris Code, Exeter University, UK
- Professor Hossam Hamdy, Gulf Medical University, United Arab Emirates
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Deadline - 9 January 2023.
We are happy to announce the call for proposals for the 21st International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine, and Ethics (COMET), which will be hosted by University College Cork, Ireland, 20-22 June, 2023. The Pre-COMET Masterclass is scheduled for 19 June, 2023.
The COMET conference aims to bring together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds involving various healthcare specialties and the human and social sciences. A special emphasis is on the dissemination of ongoing research in language/discourse/communication studies in relation to healthcare education, patient participation and professional ethics.
Conference themes
We are looking for proposals on the following themes:
- Client-Professional Encounters (involving doctors, counsellors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, speech and language therapists, psychotherapists, etc.)
- Communication Impairment and Disability
- Communicating Risk and Uncertainty
- Communication Skills Training
- Distributed Expertise among Professionals and Clients
- Ethics and Communication
- Evidence in Diagnosis and Non-Diagnosis
- Health and Disability
- Healthcare in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts
- Healthcare Education
- Health, Wellbeing and the Lifespan
- Health Literacy
- Health Technologies and Medical Informatics
- Interpreter Mediated Healthcare Delivery
- Intercultural Communication in Health
- Interprofessional Communication and Hospital Management Systems
- Media and Health Communication
- Narratives of Illness Experience
- Public Understanding of Health and Illness
- Quality of Life and Quality of Care
- Representation of the Body
- Research Ethics
- (Shared) Decision Making
- Tailoring Health Messages
- Telehealth
- Values and Responsibilities in Professional Practice