NAERUM, DK October 15 – As a non-profit, education institute, the Ida Institute often ‘pushes the envelope’ to spark discussion and collaboration on issues that support patient-centered hearing care. The newest seminar series, entitled Patient-Centered Care: Fluff, Fact or Fiction?, demonstrates the Institute’s openness to exploring all aspects of patient-centered care, even if that inquiry touches on values that are at the core of the Institute’s mission. The three-part seminar series will address opinions voiced during previous Ida seminars, workshops and conversation at professional meetings by many audiologists who perceive patient-centered care as an intangible, time-consuming, ‘fluffy’ add-on to their current practice procedures and routines.
“We’ve had hearing care professionals tell us they need a better understanding of the counseling and communication skills that will enable them to adopt a patient-centered approach in their clinical practice,” explains Ida Institute Managing Director Lise Lotte Bundesen. “Still others feel that focusing on the human dynamics of hearing loss may take them into unchartered territory that may be beyond their scope of practice. There is even a fear that patient-centered care may present a challenge to their role as hearing care professionals. We are prepared to consider all of these topics and more over the course of our new seminar series.”
Seminar participants, with the support of Ida staff and a multi-disciplinary faculty of experts from hearing care and related health care professions, will consider the relationships among language, identity, and patient-centeredness and will look at what patient-centeredness means to both hearing care professionals and their patients. Practical issues will also be explored such as the challenges practitioners experience in the clinical encounter when attempting to manage patients in a holistic manner and address the human dynamics of their hearing loss.
“As always, our seminar series will consider the development of practical skills and tools needed to integrate patient-centeredness into day-to-day clinical practice,” says Bundesen. “Together, working with hearing care professionals from around the world, we aim to create a bridge between knowing about patient-centeredness and making it the core of hearing care practice.”
The first seminar in the series is slated January 21-23, 2013. Seminar participants are carefully selected and commit to fulfilling a pre-seminar assignment where they will be asked to use Ida tools in their clinical practice for a period of three months before the start of the seminar and record their experiences. The resulting collection of insightful stories that reflect real life experiences make it possible to bring rich, real-world knowledge and reflections into the seminar process.
Multi-disciplinary Faculty
Faculty members for Patient-Centered Care: Fluff, Fact or Fiction? seminar series include Sue Ann Erdman, MA, CCC-A, Consultant, Audiologic Rehabilitation Counseling and Consulting Services (ARCCS), Jensen Beach, FL; Lesley Jones, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Social Science at the Hull York Medical School, University of York; Dr. Sophia E. Kramer, associate professor / psychologist at the department of ENT/ Audiology, EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research of the VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam; and Joseph Montano, EdD, Associate Professor of Audiology and Director of Hearing and Speech at Weill Cornell Medical College
About the Ida Institute Seminar Series
Ida Seminars are a series of educational seminars for hearing care professionals focusing on key issues related to the physical, anthropological, psychological and social aspects of hearing loss.
The three-day programs engage participants in interactive workshops, group discussion, individual reflection, theater sessions and lectures by Ida faculty. Ida Institute is a pioneer in using ethnographic videos to stimulate awareness and appreciation of the challenges faced by people with hearing loss. In networking and knowledge-sharing sessions, participants explore and reflect on differences and similarities in hearing care practice around the world, sharing local experiences to develop a global perspective. The Ida Institute provides educational stipends for all accepted participants, which include economy airfare, transfer to/from the airport, meals and accommodations for the duration of the seminar. All seminars take place in Skodsborg, Denmark.
For more information and to apply to participate in the seminar series, visit www.idainstitute.com/apply.
