CSPM Members

Dr. Kathryn Mannix Lecture - "Forgotten Wisdom: reclaiming public understanding of dying"
2023-09-19 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Vancouver) | Jewish General Hospital- Aberman Auditorium, A-102, 3755 Cote Ste Catherine Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1E2, Canada
Author of With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial. Dr. Kathryn Mannix is a British doctor who specialized in Palliative Medicine for 30 years before taking early retirement to campaign for better public understanding of dying.
Kathryn has worked with over ten thousand dying people over her career, in their own homes, in hospices and as lead of a large palliative care service in a major UK university hospital. Kathryn’s campaign to normalize ordinary dying has received international attention; she has been invited to speak around the world.
Tuesday,
September 19, 2023, 7:00 pm
Block Amphitheatre
Jewish General Hospital
3755 Cote Ste Catherine Street
Montreal H3T 1E2
Free parking will be available
The lecture will be given in English with a bilingual question and answer period.

Please register to attend in person. If you cannot attend and wish to have the recording once it is available through our website, please indicate this on the registration form.

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2023 Palliative Medicine Resident Award Presentation
2023-09-19 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
Join us to hear the top 3 scoring abstracts from our own palliative medicine residents and vote for the 2023 Palliative Medicine Resident Research Award Winner.
The Palliative Medicine Resident Award winner is selected through a webinar-based presentation and online vote. Join the webinar to hear presentations from three of Canada’s outstanding palliative medicine residents, then cast your ballot for the best!
Moderator: Dr. Jeff Myers, Resident Award Lead
Participants: CSPCP Members
Presenters:
Dr. Arun Agha, Queen’s University – The development of an end-of-life medication deprescribing and conversion guide for trainee use
Dr. Stephanie Cheon, Queen’s University – Improving care coordination between palliative care physicians and family physicians for patients with cancer
Dr. Alexandre Coholan, McGill University – Canadian physicians’ attitudes and experiences providing palliative care to sexual and gender minority people
Details: The Palliative Medicine Resident Award is for the best scholarly project by a resident enrolled in a Canadian palliative medicine residency program.
The webinar platform provides an opportunity for residents of the three top-scoring abstracts to share their work through a 10-minute presentation and 5-minute question and answer period provided. Members in attendance of all three presentations (to ensure fairness) are invited to vote for the winner online at the end of the presentations, using criteria shared by the moderator. The winner will be announced at the end of the webinar and will receive a cash prize of $1000.
The Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians Webinar Series is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
CFPC members may claim 1 Mainpro+ Non-certified Group Learning credit.
Register here: 2023 Palliative Medicine Resident Award Presentations
Thank you for supporting our residents!
Please note: the webinar will NOT be recorded.

Palliative Care Journal Watch - Ongoing Series
2023-09-18 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
The Palliative Care Journal Watch is an ongoing series led by subject matter experts from McMaster University and Queen’s University. Sessions explore key topics in the latest palliative care literature, with a focus on practice change and systems design.
Dr. José Pereira, Dr. Leonie Herx, and special guests provide context on the articles and key topics identified in the literature.
Each session is accredited by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 1 Mainpro+ credit.
Upcoming sessions:

September 18, 2023 from 12–1:00 p.m. ET
November 20, 2023 from 12–1:00 p.m. ET
January 15, 2024 from 12–1:00 p.m. ET

Registration instructions:
Register once for all Journal Watch sessions via Pallium Central and you’ll receive reminder emails before each one, including the links to access the session.

Click here to visit Pallium Central and login or create an account
Select Palliative Care Journal Watch
Type in the enrollment key: PCJW

Dignity in Care – Online Training 2023 - Session 1 of 3
2023-09-14 07:00 - 11:00 | Virtual

Oceanic Palliative Care Conference
2023-09-13 - 2023-09-15 | ICC Sydney, 14 Darling Dr, Sydney NSW 2000, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
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NEW ECHO SESSION - Symptômes gastro-intestinaux en soins palliatifs (French)
2023-08-28 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
Join Dr. Golda Tradounsky, MD, CCFP (PC) for an upcoming French session focused on recognizing and effectively treating gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms common in palliative care, such as nausea, constipation, and bowel obstruction. Dr. Tradounsky will guide you through the process of identifying these symptoms and provide practical strategies for their management.
For our English-only speakers, you can view the recording of the English version of this session on our website.
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2023 CMA Health Summit
2023-08-17 - 2023-08-18 | Ottawa, ON
The 2023 CMA Health Summit will be held Aug. 17–18, both in person in Ottawa and online, with the goal of outlining a vision for What Health Care Should Be. Plan to attend and lend your voice to the solutions needed to rebuild health care – including how to address workforce challenges, create safe environments for patients and providers, and expand access. CMA has waived the registration fees for non-physician CEOs – click here to register (Note registration is free for physicians).
The Health Summit will also be the kickoff for a national conversation on the role of private providers in the public health system. The CMA will host Canada-wide consultations throughout the fall and winter that include polling, and virtual and in-person events.

BCCFP & Pallium Canada host virtual LEAP Core
2023-08-16 09:00 - 12:00, 2023-08-09 09:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
Register for the LEAP Core virtual CPD for end-of life care in rural and remote communities

BCCFP are hosting Pallium Canada’s Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative Care (LEAP) core online course for rural and remote family physicians in BC on August 9 and 16, 2023. These sessions will be half days from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm.
LEAP was created for healthcare professionals working in the community and provides the essential skills and competencies of the palliative care approach. It is evidence-based, peer-reviewed and evaluated and updated regularly.
This online course includes 16 self-directed and interactive online modules completed at your own pace (approximately 8 hours of work); 2 three-hour online webinars led by a LEAP facilitator where you will work through cases and discuss the online modules; and an electronic copy of the Pallium palliative pocketbook.

REGISTER HERE: https://ow.ly/zUiB50OUjPA

ECHO Session: Delirium in Palliative Care
2023-08-14 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Unravelling the complexity of delirium in palliative care is an important step toward improving patient comfort and dignity at life’s end.
Led by Dr. Carmen Johnson, the session will delve into the intricacies of managing delirium, offering invaluable insights to health care professionals and family caregivers alike.
This session is an opportunity to enhance your understanding of delirium; a state of acute confusion and cognitive impairment that frequently affects individuals nearing the end of life.
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ECHO Session: Palliative Sedation
2023-08-09 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Palliative sedation, a critical intervention in end-of-life care, is a complex yet necessary aspect of palliative care. We invite you to join our upcoming session on palliative sedation led by Dr. Kevin Wade, CD, MD, CCFP (PC).
This session will equip you with the knowledge to distinguish between sedation and analgesia, identify indications for palliative sedation therapy, and understand the use of pharmacotherapy. Don’t miss the chance to expand your ability to provide effective and empathetic end-of-life care.
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ECHO Session: Beyond slogans, toward anti-racism: EDI in Palliative Care
2023-07-27 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
During this session, our speakers explore the intersections of race, culture, and diversity in end-of-life care. Engage in dynamic discussions, gain insights from experts, and learn strategies for fostering equitable and culturally sensitive practices.
This session is designed for healthcare professionals, researchers, educators, policymakers, and anyone passionate about advancing EDI within palliative care. By embracing diverse perspectives and engaging in meaningful conversations, we can collectively work towards dismantling systemic barriers, fostering inclusive care environments, and ultimately improving the quality of life for patients and their families.
Presenters:

Amit Arya, MD, CCFP (PC), FCFP
Naheed Dosani, MSC, MD, CCFP(PC), BSc

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ECHO Session: BCC4PC
2023-07-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
Next ECHO session registration is now open for Tuesday, July 25 11:00 AM with Dr. Joshua Black
Complementary registration: http://ow.ly/2gX650Oz7r9

ECHO Session: Delirium in Palliative Care
2023-07-24 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
During this session, our speaker will enhance your knowledge and understanding of the complex relationship between delirium and end-of-life care. Delirium, a state of acute confusion and cognitive impairment, frequently affects individuals nearing the end of life and those receiving palliative care. Understanding and effectively managing delirium is essential to ensuring optimal comfort and dignity for patients, as well as supporting their families during this challenging time.
Speaker: Dr. Carmen Johnson
Duration: 1 hour
About the Palliative Care ECHO Project: The Palliative Care ECHO Project is a 5-year national initiative to cultivate communities of practice and establish continuous professional development among health care providers across Canada who care for patients with life-limiting illness.
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CHPCA Webinar: Data Blind Spots: Identifying Palliative Care
2023-07-20 07:00 - 08:00 | Virtual
For a variety of reasons, it is currently not possible to identify who actually gets and who delivers specialty palliative care from billing and other data sets. CAPC’s Health Care Transformation Team will explore the way palliative care is currently researched, regulated, and reimbursed, and highlight the potential negative impacts of these approaches – including payment denials. They will also suggest some ideas that could improve palliative care identification.
Learning Objectives
Attendees will:

Articulate the challenges in identifying specialty palliative care delivery using existing data sets
Recognize where these limitations appear in research and payment, and reconsider communication strategies to improve clarity
Pursue at least one opportunity to improve identification of specialty palliative care delivery within their domain

This webinar is free and open to all.
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Presented By

Allison Silvers, MBA
Chief Health Care Transformation Officer

Rachael Heitner, MPH, CHPCA
Associate Director, Research and Insights

Stacie Sinclair, MPP
Associate Director, Policy and Care Transformation

Julia Frydman, MD
Assistant Professor

ECHO Session: Talking to Children about Serious Illness, Death and Dying
2023-07-19 08:15 - 09:45 | Virtual
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Learning Objectives:
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

Explore perspectives and experiences for children, teens and families dealing with death and dying.
Learn strategies to support and guide caregivers through the process of communicating with children and teens about illness and dying.
Identify needs and opportunities to prepare and include young people

Reimagining LTC Webinar Series
2023-07-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Join the next Reimagining LTC webinar to learn about workplace mental health and psychological safety in long-term care. These one-hour webinars bring people together to share with and learn from others facing similar challenges and opportunities in long-term care.
One-hour webinars are hosted monthly and feature speakers with expertise in topics related to long-term care. You only have to register once to sign up for all upcoming events. Recordings are available online after each webinar.
REGISTER HERE
Next webinars:
September 21, 2023 – 1:00 – 2:00pm ET
October 18, 2023 – 12:00-1:00pm ET
November 21, 2023 – 11:00am – 12:00pm ET

Palliative care needs assessment using IPOS - EAPC Webinar
2023-07-18 06:00 - 07:00 | Virtual

ECHO Session: GI Symptoms in Palliative Care
2023-07-12 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
In this session, learn how to effectively recognize and address common gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms in palliative care, such as nausea, constipation, and bowel obstruction. Our speaker will guide you through the process of identifying these symptoms and provide practical strategies for their management.
Whether you are a healthcare professional or a caregiver, this event will equip you with valuable knowledge and techniques to improve the comfort and well-being of individuals in palliative care.
Presenter: Dr. Golda Tradounsky
REGISTER HERE

Informational webinar: Strengthening Primary Care in Northern, Rural and Remote Communities program
2023-07-11 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Join an informational webinar about a new HEC program aimed at strengthening team-based primary care in northern, rural and remote communities. Launching in July 2023, this program provides participants with tailored support to implement or strengthen a promising practice that improves equitable access to safe, including culturally safe, high-quality team-based primary care closer to home.
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Project ECHO by Pallium Canada - Live Simulation Workshop
2023-07-05 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual

Pre-Conference Workshop in July with Hospice and PC Association of Nigeria
2023-07-03 06:00 - 09:00 | Virtual

Reimagining LTC Webinar Series
2023-06-22 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Join the next Reimagining LTC webinar to learn about workplace mental health and psychological safety in long-term care. These one-hour webinars bring people together to share with and learn from others facing similar challenges and opportunities in long-term care.
One-hour webinars are hosted monthly and feature speakers with expertise in topics related to long-term care. You only have to register once to sign up for all upcoming events. Recordings are available online after each webinar.
REGISTER HERE
Next webinars:
July 18, 2023 – 12:00 – 1:00pm ET
September 21, 2023 – 1:00 – 2:00pm ET
October 18, 2023 – 12:00-1:00pm ET
November 21, 2023 – 11:00am – 12:00pm ET

Project ECHO: "Paediatric Palliative Care in ​Advanced Heart Disease​"
2023-06-21 08:15 - 09:45 | Virtual

18th EAPC World Congress, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2023-06-15 - 2023-06-17 | Rotterdam, Netherlands

Hot Topics Webinar: Propofol in Palliative Medicine
2023-06-14 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
Members only event

Subject: Propofol in Palliative Medicine
Conversation Starter: Dr. Vincent Fruci, MD, FRCPC Anesthesiology and FRCPC Palliative Medicine
Moderator: Dr. Charlie Chen, MD, MEd, CCFP(PC), FCFP
Participants: CSPCP members from across Canada
Description:
We will review the pharmacology and pharmacodynamics of propofol and explore a review article wherein propofol was used at a palliative care unit. I will then explore the protocols we are coming up with here in BC.
Register here: Propofol in Palliative Medicine
Hot Topics webinars are exclusive to CSPCP members. The webinars are a platform for national networking and conversation with peers from across Canada – not a typical “lecture” format. At the beginning of each webinar, a speaker will start conversation by providing a 5- or 10-minute opinion on a Hot Topic. The remaining 45 minutes is for interactive, moderated discussion amongst participants.
The Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians Webinar Series is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
CFPC members may claim 1 Mainpro+ Non-certified Group Learning credit.

If there’s a Hot Topic you’d like to see in the future, please contact
Kimberly Pinnick Broderick, CSPCP – kimberly@cspcp.ca

BC Provincial Deprescribing Webinar
2023-06-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual

Webinar: Promising Practices That Support Retention of the Health Care Workforce in Northern, Rural and Remote Communities (part two)
2023-06-14 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
There is a pressing need to support the health care workforce in order to strengthen and restore high-quality, safe health care for everyone in Canada. Providers who work in northern, rural and remote communities have unique challenges and associated support needs, related to factors such as fewer onsite team members; geographic remoteness and associated weather and travel challenges; access to fewer providers, specialists and facilities, and to less equipment; a broader scope of practice compared with their urban counterparts; and a patient population that is — on average — more complex compared with patient populations in urban centres.
This webinar is part two of a two-part series, presented by Healthcare Excellence Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information. It discusses:

Promising practices that other communities have implemented to increase the retention of their health care workforce.
Key success factors to embed community, staff and Indigenous partnerships into retention approaches.
Practices that promote improved work–life balance and wellness, which contribute to retention of the health care workforce.
Strategies that health care leaders are using to engage staff to develop solutions geared at retaining people in the health care workforce.

Register for part two
Watch the recording of part one

HPCO Annual Conference - Richmond Hill, ON
2023-06-11 - 2023-06-13 | Sheraton Parkway Toronto Hotel & Suites, 9005 Leslie St, Richmond Hill, Ontario, L4B 1B2, Canada
Now Is The Time. The pandemic related challenges of the last three years shone a light on myriad issues that have existed for many years. Inequitable access to care, underfunded models of care, systemic racism, structural barriers to care, and a lack of person-centred hospice palliative care in all settings are but a few of the challenges. Now Is The Time for action.
Now Is The Time to implement the goals articulated in the Provincial Framework for Palliative Care to act on Leadership and Accountability, Funding, Provider Education and Mentorship, Integrated Care, Person and Family-Centred Care, Evidence and Data, and Public Awareness. Now Is The Time to implement recommendations and solutions that will ensure patients and families have equitable access to high-quality hospice palliative care called in call care settings.
Join your colleagues at HPCO2023 for 3 days of learning, networking, reconnecting, and recharging.
REGISTER HERE

Upcoming webinar: Stories from the field: Inclusive Care
2023-06-06 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
Join us to explore practical approaches to fostering more equitable engagement with a broad diversity of people in the health system. This session features two examples of initiatives designed to address inequity and offer more inclusive care: Doctors of the World and Caring Community.
Supporting people in vulnerable situations: Doctors of the World
Learn about the work Doctors of the World is doing to ensure and defend access to healthcare for people who are excluded and/or structurally marginalized, both in Canada and abroad. This includes clinical and mental health support as well as peer harm reduction.
Integrating peer support in homelessness during the pandemic: The Caring Community Model
Learn more about the Caring Community Model, an internationally recognized model for integrated care that was adapted to respond to the unique challenges faced by people experiencing homelessness in Montreal during the pandemic. Pairing primary care providers with a peer support worker generated a sense of social support and hope for both patients and providers and proved to be an effective strategy to mitigate harmful impacts of the pandemic.
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This session is 2 of 2 in HEC’s latest Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Virtual Learning Exchange series. By registering for this event, you will be signed up to attend both sessions.
This session will be delivered in French with simultaneous interpretation in English. Visual interpretation in ASL and LSQ will be provided. A recording will be shared after the event.
Speakers

Pénélope Boudreault, Infirmière Directrice des opérations nationales Médecins du Monde Canada
Farin Shore, Patient Partner
Antoine Boivin, Chairholder of the Canada Research Chair in Partnership with Patients and Communities
Ghislaine Rouly, Patient Partner, Caring Community

Host

Audrey L’Espérance, Assistant Professor, Health and Social Services Management, École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP)
