Preconference (Monday, October 18, 2010)
Preconference Intensive Training Sessions
The Preconference intensive training sessions are very popular half- to full-day immersions on clinical, management, education and policy issues. Presentations use interactive teaching methods that offer opportunities for discussion/small group breakouts and provide substantial take-home resources.
Topics covered in the past include:
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Integrating cultural competence, language assistance, and disparity reduction into health care quality improvement programs, information systems, program evaluations and patient measurements
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Staff training on cultural and linguistic competence
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Health professions curricula development
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Organizational cultural competence, including developing business plans
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Improving the delivery of language access services
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Promoting health policies for culturally appropriate care
The sessions run for three (or six) hours, led by a 1-3 person presenter team on a single topic, with advance enrollment of up to 30 participants. For full details about this year's preconference sessions, please view the preconference agenda.
Main Conference (Tuesday, October 19 -Thursday, October 21, 2010)
Main Conference Concurrent Workshops
Concurrent workshop sessions will feature two or three separate 30-minute presentations that address specific implementation, educational, research or policy challenges. At the end of all the presentations, the session moderator will facilitate 30 minutes of discussion and problem-solving or strategy-devising with the audience, which will be encouraged to comment on their related experiences, ask questions, and dialogue with presenters. (Depending on room size, these sessions will have 30-100 participants)
Peer-to-Peer Practice Advancement Sessions
Many participants have commented on how useful it is to share experiences face-to-face with others working in their field of specialty. Introduced in 2004 and widely praised, the peer-to-peer sessions are designed to facilitate the exchange and documentation of practice challenges and solutions. A group of 4-7 panelists engage in discussion of a specific practice challenge (e.g. how to design and market cultural competence training to busy health care professionals). An expert facilitator leads participants in a 2 hour session that includes discussion and brainstorming (with the audience) on cutting-edge practices and problem resolution. Background materials on each panelist’s program are contained in the online conference resource binder, and the session proceedings may be documented and summarized for later distribution.
Roundtable Discussions
This format features 3-6 panelists who engage in a moderated discussion of a multifaceted or controversial topic. The moderator plays a very active role, asking questions of the panelists and ensuring that all panelists (three to six people) have the opportunity to speak. Panelists make brief introductory remarks before engaging in ad hoc give-and-take for which they may have prepared themselves but which cannot be predicted or entirely controlled. Panel discussions should generate spontaneous interaction among participants and between participants and the audience.
Film Festival
The Filmfest features several recently produced or in-production films and videos that use a variety of techniques and formats to convey cross-cultural health issues, including films on the immigrant experience or global migration issues. In 30-minute presentation segments, filmmakers will share their projects, show snippets or a long segment from the piece, receive feedback, and answer questions.
Poster Presentations
This format is designed to inform conference participants about best practices and research in cultural competence by highlighting clinical outcomes, effective programs and practices, relevant practitioner oriented research, and strategic policy developments. Poster presentations will be hosted in the conference Resource Center.
The conference will also feature e-posters, which are electronic powerpoint presentations that will be viewable online during and after the conference.
Exhibits
The Resource Center also features paid exhibits. Please see the Exhibitor information page for further details.
Innovative presentation formats:
Innovative presentations use creative or alternative presentation techniques, address new or emerging topics or combine these two approaches.
Dramatic issue presentations. The 2006 conference featured a highly rated “tug of war” on the subject: “Should Bilingual Staff Interpret?” Using three dramatic re-enactments of clinical encounters, key issues were raised and discussed. To conclude, a metaphorical—and literal—tug of war (with rope) involved the actors and audience in deciding the question. The 2008 conference featured an equally popular "Gladiators" performance. At least one session at the 2010 conference will also incorporate dramatic elements and audience participation.
Focus group. This format is useful for gathering information or getting feedback from a national audience that would contribute to the development of an ongoing program, research project, or policy tool. It has been used successfully in the past to discuss the development of the CLAS standards, the development of ethical standards for interpreters, and by national quality organizations to interpret the CLAS standards.