The intent of the Updates in Correctional Health Care conference is to share the most innovative developments, treatment practices and case studies with our attendees. Only with your participation can we make this happen.

These instructions provide guidelines and forms to ensure your presentation is in keeping with national continuing education standards.

With the exception of preconference seminars, all presentations are scheduled for Monday or Tuesday, May 19-20.  Download the schedule-at-a-glance to see the agenda for the entire conference.

Conference Educational Objectives

The goals and objectives for your presentation must be consistent with the goals and objectives of the conference:

• List major health care issues that commonly affect incarcerated individuals, including HIV, hepatitis, hypertension, diabetes, mental illness and substance abuse.

• Describe current legal, ethical and administrative issues and ways to prevent potential problems that arise in correctional settings.
• Employ new practices for the treatment of major health care issues in order to better manage common medical and nursing problems found in correctional settings.
• Express increased understanding of common correctional health care issues by exchanging ideas with colleagues about new developments in specialty areas.

NCCHC Program Policies

In addition, your presentation should conform with these policies of the NCCHC education committee:

• Content must be related to health care provided in correctional settings.
• The topic must be timely and relevant.
• Content must be accurate.
• Content must be based on scientific modalities of diagnosis or therapy (if applicable).
• The presentation must not show preference for one product or service over another unless there is a clear scientific or objective basis to do so, or unless the presentation format allows for a fair presentation of alternatives.
• Corporate support, if any, must be disclosed.
• If applicable, the presentation must be consistent with NCCHC standards and promote their use.
• Presenters' credentials should be appropriate to present the subject matter.
• The presentation should be sufficiently in-depth to require the full time allotment (usually one hour).
• Presentation goals and objectives should correspond with the conference goals and objectives (stated above).

Downloads

Speaker Registration
All presenters are required to register for the conference by March 1. A special rate of $180 is available for presenters. If you have co-presenters, please copy the Speaker Registration Form and distribute it to them.

Faculty Disclosure Form
All presenters are required to fill out a Speaker Disclosure Form. Please download this form and distribute it to your co-presenters or direct them to this Web site.

Presenter Guidelines
These presenter guidelines were developed to help make your presentation as effective as possible.

Note: For your convenience, all meeting rooms will be equipped with a LCD projector for PowerPoint, screen, podium and microphone. Speakers are responsible for bringing their own laptops. To order additional equipment (e.g., a TV/VCR), contact deborahross@ncchc.org.

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