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Opening day
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Submission deadline
The Call for Abstracts for the March 13 Hybrid Research Symposium is now open!
We invite abstracts presenting original research, educational innovations, works in progress, program evaluation, and emerging approaches related to communication across veterinary education and practice.
Presentation Formats
Abstracts may be submitted for consideration in one of the following formats:
Short Communication: An 8-minute oral presentation, followed by 2 minutes for questions and discussion.
Poster Spotlight: A 3-minute presentation highlighting the key findings presented in a poster format, followed by 2 minutes for questions and discussion.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
• Veterinary-client-patient communication and relationship-centered care
• Communication curricula, curriculum design, and longitudinal integration
• Teaching and assessment of communication competencies
• Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), and performance-based assessment
• Simulated clients and simulation-based education
• Feedback, debriefing, and facilitation
• Shared decision-making, informed consent, and financial conversations
• Communication surrounding end-of-life care, grief, and euthanasia
• Team, interprofessional, and workplace communication
• Communication, wellbeing, resilience, and professional sustainability
• One Health and public Health communication
• Communication in large-animal, equine, food-animal, and companion-animal practice
• Technology-enhance communication education, telehealth, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies
• Faculty development and preparation of communication educators
• Translating communication research into educational and clinical practice
Important Dates:
- January 5, 2027 - Call for Abstracts closes at the end of the day
- January 15, 2027 - Abstract review process will be completed
- February 1, 2027 - Abstract decisions will be announced
