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2024-06-17 - 2024-06-19 | Royal Botanical Gardens, 680 Plains Road West, Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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Three Days in Palliative Care - An In Depth Learning Experience
2024-06-17 - 2024-06-19 | Royal Botanical Gardens, 680 Plains Road West, Burlington, Ontario, Canada
TARGET AUDIENCE
Health Care Professionals (Physicians, Nurses, Spiritual Care Providers, Social Workers and other disciplines) who:

Are providing a palliative approach to care within various settings: Primary Care, Long Term Care, Acute Care, Home Care and Hospice.
We suggest completing or enrolling in the Pallium LEAP (Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative and End-Life-Care) prior to registering for this course palliativecare.mcmaster.ca/education/continuing-education

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By attending this learning activity, participants will be able to:

Manage complex physical, emotional, ethical and social issues, including pediatric to geriatric populations.
Develop enhanced collaborative practice skills and forge new inter-professional relationships.
Apply a palliative care approach in life-limiting illnesses, including cancer, cardiac, renal, respiratory, dementia and other neurological disorders.

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ECHO Session: Grief follow-up; guidelines for support practices for grieving parents and sibling (in French)
2024-06-12 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Vancouver) | Virtual
Come be part of the Pediatric Palliative Care Community of Practice, in collaboration with Le Phare, Enfants et Familles! This community of practice will allow you to network and learn from experts across French-speaking Canada who share your interest in the integrated approach to pediatric palliative care.
This COP is ideal for health care professionals in pediatric palliative care working in an interdisciplinary approach: physicians, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, spiritual care providers, and other professionals with a particular interest in pediatric palliative care.
Members of this COP will have the opportunity to gather every two months with a panel of experts in the field to participate in case discussions and explore current topics in pediatric palliative care such as symptom management, pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches to pain, and psychosocial and spiritual support, among others.
Upcoming sessions include:

Grief follow-up; guidelines for support practices for grieving parents and siblings: June 12, 2024, from 12–1 p.m. ET
Pediatric end-of-life care: September 11, 2024, from 12–1 p.m. ET
Ethical decision-making in adolescence; when the wishes of the adolescent and parent diverge: November 20, 2024, from 12–1 p.m. ET
Essential conversations in pediatric palliative care: February 12, 2025, from 12–1 p.m. ET
Key nursing skills in Peadiatric Palliative Care. From novice to expert!: April 16, 2025, from 12–1 p.m. ET

Interested in becoming a part of this COP? Follow the instructions below:

Click here to visit Pallium Central and login or create an account
Select ECHO CdP soins palliatifs pédiatriques
Type in the enrollment key: Pédiatriques

REGISTER HERE

Project ECHO: Grief follow-up; guidelines for support practices for grieving parents and siblings
2024-06-12 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
Pediatric Palliative Care Community of Practice (in French)
Sessions will run from April 2024 to April 2025.

Come be part of the Pediatric Palliative Care Community of Practice, in collaboration with Le Phare! This community of practice will allow you to network and learn from experts across French-speaking Canada who share your interest in the integrated approach to pediatric palliative care.
This COP is ideal for health care professionals in pediatric palliative care working in an interdisciplinary approach: physicians, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, spiritual care providers, and other professionals with a particular interest in pediatric palliative care.
Members of this COP will have the opportunity to gather every two months with a panel of experts in the field to participate in case discussions and explore current topics in pediatric palliative care such as symptom management, pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches to pain, and psychosocial and spiritual support, among others.
Upcoming sessions include:

Grief follow-up; guidelines for support practices for grieving parents and siblings: June 12, 2024, from 12–1 p.m. ET
Pediatric end-of-life care: September 11, 2024, from 12–1 p.m. ET
Ethical decision-making in adolescence; when the wishes of the adolescent and parent diverge: November 20, 2024, from 12–1 p.m. ET
Essential conversations in pediatric palliative care: February 12, 2025, from 12–1 p.m. ET
Key nursing skills in Peadiatric Palliative Care. From novice to expert!: April 16, 2025, from 12–1 p.m. ET

Interested in becoming a part of this COP? Follow the instructions below:

Click here to visit Pallium Central and login or create an account
Select ECHO CdP soins palliatifs pédiatriques
Type in the enrollment key: Pédiatriques

ECHO Session: All Together ECHO: Go Grey – Why Museum Resources Are Good For The Well-Being Of Seniors
2024-06-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
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All Together, a compassionate communities initiative, is open to Health Care Providers, Volunteers, Volunteer lead organizations, Community Groups, and individuals looking to be inspired by and learn from others developing compassionate communities.
In this session, museum educator, Kim Gough will share highlights of her research into museum outreach programs and their impact on the wellbeing of seniors. We will also look closely at the Museum Mystery Suitcase outreach kit and model how it is used
Presenter: Kim Gough, Acting Director Visitor Experience, Royal BC Museum

HPCO's Annual Conference: Palliative Care Everywhere
2024-06-09 - 2024-06-11 | Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel & Suites, 9005 Leslie St, Richmond Hill, Ontario, L4B 1B2, Canada
Registration opens February 19, 2024

Canadian Critical Care Review
2024-06-07 - 2024-06-09 | Toronto Marriot Hotel, 901 Dixon Road, Toronto, Ontario, M9W 1J5, Canada
Update on Principles and Practice of Mechanical Ventilation – June 7, 2024
A half-day small group “Update on Principles and Practice of Mechanical Ventilation” workshop will be offered to trainees registered in a Canadian critical care training program as well as practicing intensivists and respiratory therapists. Participants will be able to choose from a selection of workshop topics to best suit their learning goals. Space is limited so be sure to register early.
Canadian Critical Care Review – June 8-9, 2024
The CCCS is pleased to host the Canadian Critical Care Review (CCCR) for 2024 at the Toronto Airport Marriott Hotel. This vital critical care review course will follow our traditional format of learning, and with the aid of interactive media, participants will be able to anonymously assess their knowledge and readiness for the Royal College examination to help identify areas for ongoing development.
This year’s review course will focus on adult critical care medicine. Content will be made available to all learners after the course, providing a valuable resource for exam preparation. To ensure registrants are able to review topics not covered in this year’s course, applicable session recordings from the 2023 review course will also be made available.
As always, the CCCS is committed to delivering a highly valued, engaging program to meet the educational needs of critical care trainees, practicing critical care nurses, allied health professionals, respiratory therapists and intensivists. Our goal is to address the challenges in preparing for the Royal College subspecialty examination in critical care as well as the challenges in maintaining competency in clinical professional practice.

NOSM - Education Session: Wound Management
2024-06-06 | Virtual
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This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by the Continuing Education and Professional Development Office at NOSM University for up to 2 Mainpro+ credit(s).

CAPO 2024 Conference
2024-06-06 - 2024-06-07 | The Westin Calgary, 320 4th Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2P 2S6, Canada
The mission of the Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology (CAPO) is to foster the science and practice of psychosocial oncology to improve the care for people affected by cancer through partnerships, research, public policy, advocacy and education.
Our 2024 Conference marks the 39th year that CAPO has brought together a national body of health care professionals. This forum encourages new partnerships and allows for the dissemination of ground-breaking research to professionals and the general public about psycho-oncology, that is, the psychosocial (psychiatric, psychological, social, behavioural, ethical) and psychobiological aspects of oncology. Finally, this forum allows us to recognize exceptional contributions from around the country to the field of psycho-oncology through our awards of excellence.
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Community-Based Palliative Care Community of Practice: What’s in store for palliative care in Canada: policy, advocacy, and implementation
2024-06-05 09:30 - 10:30 | Virtual
Join us for the third series of the Community-Based Primary Palliative Care Community of Practice. This Canada-wide initiative focuses on supporting primary care clinicians to integrate primary palliative care into their practices.
This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 9.0 Mainpro+® credits.
Register for the upcoming session “What’s in store for palliative care in Canada: policy, advocacy, and implementation” happening on June 5, 2024, from 12:30–1:30 p.m. ET.
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Advanced Learning in Palliative Medicine 2024
2024-05-30 - 2024-06-01 | The Westin Harbour Castle Toronto, 1 Harbour Square, Toronto, Ontario, M5J 1A6, Canada

Rural Reach Webinars - Anxiety, Behaviours in Dementia and Social Isolation and Loneliness among Older Adults
2024-05-29 17:00 - 18:30 | Virtual
Highlights from Three New Canadian Clinical Guidelines
Location: Zoom – The link will be in the confirmation email
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EVENT DETAILS:

Free for SRPC Members / $50 for General Admission

Event Description:
Over the last two years, the Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health (CCSMH) focused its attention on developing three new national clinical guidelines: 1) the assessment and treatment of anxiety in older adults; 2) the assessment and management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia, and; 3) social isolation and loneliness in older adults. This webinar, featuring the guidelines’ clinical leads, will provide an overview of the processes for developing the guidelines as well as highlights of some of the key recommendations.
CCSMH is a national non-profit organization affiliated with the Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry. Funding for the development of these guidelines was provided by the Public Health Agency of Canada (anxiety and BPSD) and an anonymous foundation (social isolation and loneliness).

Learning Objectives:

Understand the processes used for developing the three clinical guidelines.
Become familiar with the key topics and recommendations for each of the three guidelines.
Consider how to move these recommendations into clinical practice.

Webinar: Working Together for Better Care: Benefits of Health and Social Care Partnerships
2024-05-29 09:00 - 10:30 | Virtual
Health and social care partnerships provide a unique opportunity to address complex health and social needs. With social determinants of health, such as employment and housing, accounting for 30-55 percent of health outcomes (World Health Organization), there’s been a call in this country to engage with sectors beyond health to improve equitable access to care.
Join us on May 29 as our panel of health and social care experts—from leaders to providers to people with lived experiences—shares the impact of these partnerships and how their experiences of working together makes a difference.
All registrants will have access to a recording and a list of resources on health and social care partnerships after the event, which will be posted on the HEC website.
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Panelists

Jill Gerke, Director, Regional Community Programs, Island Health
Nikki Page, Manager, Housing and Shelters, Victoria Cool Aid Society
Nikki George, Director of Indigenous Health Policy, Health Equity and System Transformation, Ontario Health West Region
Louise Bird, Patient Partner/Caregiver

ECHO Session: Identifying People Who Would Benefit from a Palliative Approach
2024-05-28 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
Join the Canadian Home Care Association to discover how the early identification of individuals and implementing a palliative approach to care can change how people live and die.
You’ll learn to initiate crucial conversations on symptom management, advance care planning, and understanding a person’s values and culture. A team-based approach enhances care by addressing current needs and recognizing future ones.
Identifying individuals who would benefit from a palliative approach is essential because it ensures comprehensive, holistic care for people living with life-limiting conditions. Early identification supports home care providers in having conversations with patients and their families that anticipate concerns about symptom management, prompt discussions about advance care planning and create more opportunities to better understand a person’s values, wishes and culture. It improves the effectiveness of interdisciplinary teams in planning care that considers not only a person’s present physical, psychological, social and emotional needs, but also future needs which arise with advanced illness.
In our ECHO session, you’ll discover how early identification for palliative care changes lives and deaths by ensuring comprehensive care for those with life-limiting conditions. You’ll learn to initiate crucial conversations on symptom management, advance care planning, and understanding patient values and culture. This approach enhanced team-based care by addressing current and future needs. A wrap-up quiz will engage participants in self-assessing on key elements of the Canadian Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Competency Framework necessary for early identification and integration of a palliative approach.
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Methadone4Pain Free Webinar
2024-05-24 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual
We are hosting a free webinar on methadone for pain in palliative care in May. It would be greatly appreciated if you could share the details below within your network. The webinar will be of interest to physicians, medical students, nurse practitioners, and other clinicians working in palliative care who may be caring for people who are taking methadone, and of specific interest to those who may be prescribing.
Canadian Virtual Hospice is hosting a free webinar with Dr. Pippa Hawley, Medical Director, Provincial Pain & Symptom Management/Palliative Care Program at BC Cancer on May 24, 2024 from 5:00-6:00pm Pacific Time. Dr. Pippa Hawley will provide a brief description of the Methadone4Pain course and lead a discussion on participants’ questions about methadone prescribing. This webinar is of relevance to those who are interested in taking the course or who have completed the course and would like further information, to ask a question, or to share their experience.
Methadone4Pain is a free online course on Methadone for Analgesia in Palliative Care housed on Canadian Virtual Hospice’s Learning Hub at www.CVHLearningHub.ca that has been certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons and the College of Family Physicians of Canada for continuing professional development credits.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WR-fhqDYQgWteR9g3KS1wQ#/registration

Webinar Part 2: Understanding systems of inequity that impact access to safe and high-quality healthcare for Black people
2024-05-22 09:00 - 10:30 | Virtual
In the upcoming two-part webinar series of HEC’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Virtual Learning Exchange, we’ll explore critical race theory, intersectionality, and anti-oppressive practices focusing on Black peoples’ health and anti-Black racism.
Dates: May 22, 2024 (Part 1) and June 19, 2024 (Part 2)
Time: 12:00-1:30 p.m. ET
Register for the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion webinar series

Webinar Part 1: Understanding systems of inequity that impact access to safe and high-quality healthcare for Black people
2024-05-22 09:00 - 10:30 | Virtual

European Association for Palliative Care World Research Congress
2024-05-16 - 2024-05-18 | Barcelona, Spain

ECHO Session: Culturally Sensitive Care For The Chinese Community
2024-05-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
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Talking about serious illness in a culturally sensitive way can be challenging. In this talk, we will talk about ways to adapt our communication tools to improve communication and to promote culturally sensitive care.
Presenter: Dr. Kelvin Lou
Part of our Updates & Innovations in Essential Conversations for the Health Care Team ECHO Series.

ECHO Session: An Approach to Assessing Existential Distress
2024-05-15 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
Hosts: Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians (CSPCP)
Presenters:
Dr. Anne Marie Krueger-Naug, MD, PhD, FRCPC, YAC (Palliative Care)
Program Director, Adult Palliative Medicine, Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University
David Maginley, M.Div, CSCP
Spiritual Care Practitioner
Moderator:
Dr. Romayne Gallagher MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP
Clinical Professor, Division of Palliative Care, UBC
Board Member, CSPCP
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Target Audience: Physicians from across Canada
Description: Existential distress is a term used when patients who are coming towards the end of their lives exhibit profound suffering, related particularly to their thoughts on life and existence. Specifically, it describes the reaction to that which threatens the integrity of a person’s identity. Little research has been done on the clinical expression of this phenomenon, even though, from diagnosis to eventual death, existential issues quietly, and sometimes overtly, dominant a palliative patient’s experience.
This session aims to introduce physicians to the concept of existential distress and provide an approach to identify and clarify the different aspects of this distress experienced by the dying person.
Early identification can enable timely intervention, such as counselling, spiritual guidance, and dignity therapy. Such supports have been found to increase quality of life in the terminal phase of a person’s illness.
In this session, we will:

identify the indicators and nuances of existential distress through case examples.
appreciate the functional role existential distress plays at the end of life, when to refer to psychosocial/spiritual care, and how to support the dying person if these specialist resources are in short supply.

Palliative Care ECHO Lunch & Learn Series: Supporting Vulnerable Patients Who Could Benefit from an Equity-Informed Palliative Approach to Care
2024-05-15 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
Interested in learning more about adopting equity-based palliative care for vulnerable patients?
Join the North West Regional Palliative Care Program for their upcoming session where members of the Palliative Advocacy Care Team (PACT) & Palliative Carelink will discuss how health and social care workers can adopt approaches to care that recognize and adapt to the social and structural determinants of health.
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LTC-NB Annual Conference
2024-05-15 - 2024-05-16 | Delta Fredericton, 225 Woodstock Cr, New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada

Palliative Care Journal Watch
2024-05-13 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
The Palliative Care Journal Watch is an ongoing series led by subject matter experts from McMaster University, Queen’s University, McGill University, University of Toronto, University of Manitoba, University of Calgary, University of Alberta and Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Israel. 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 1.0 Mainpro+ credit.
Upcoming sessions:

22 July 2024, from 12–1:00 p.m. ET
16 September 2024, from 12–1:00 p.m. ET
13 November 2024, from 12–1:00 p.m. ET
13 January 2025, 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

Responding to Structural Inequities in Palliative Care: Promising Practices
2024-05-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Thanks so much for registering for the Hospice Palliative Care Week webinar Responding to Structural Inequities in Palliative Care: Promising Practices, hosted by the Palliative Care team at SPH! This event is in-person or virtual.
Registration is optional, but will allow you to get an Outlook calendar invite and link to the recording.
By adding your name to this list, you’re agreeing to receive three emails about this event:

The initial email with Zoom and in-person details
A reminder in the days before the event
A thank you message with a link to the event recording

This event is hosted by Palliative Care team, and all email messages will come through PHC’s Communications and Public Affairs team. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Jenika Hamilton, Communications Officer, at jhamilton1@providencehealth.bc.ca.
Don’t want to register? No problem! Here are the event details:
Date: May 10, 2024, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
In person:
St. Paul’s Hospital, Cullen Theatre
You’ll find the theatre on the first floor of the hospital, down the hallway where the conference rooms are located.
Virtual:
This event is hosted on Zoom.
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81837881902
Webinar ID: 818 3788 1902
Or Telephone: 1 778 907 2071

2024 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE ON PALLIATIVE CARE - 'Equity in Palliative Care'
2024-05-10 04:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
CONFERENCE TOPICS

Spiritual care panel with panelists from different faith communities
Indigenous Health and Palliative Care
Palliative Care for Patients Experiencing Homelessness
Palliative Care: An Experience in Nepal
Ethical Challenges in Providing Palliative Care to Patients and Families
Providing Palliative Care to Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals
Pain Management in Palliative Patients with Opioid Use Disorder
Management of Malignant Wounds

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Palliative Care for Advanced Non-Malignant Diseases (PCAND) CoP Meeting
2024-05-09 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual

UHN Supportive Care Update Conference
2024-05-09 05:00 - 13:30 | Virtual
The Department of Supportive Care at the University Health Network is delighted to invite you to our inaugural Supportive Care Update Conference on May 9, 2024. This virtual event will include 10 new studies/topics from the last 12 months and will be shared through 40-minute virtual lectures. All updates will be education-focused, evidence-based, clinically applied, and relevant to those working and learning within supportive care.
All attendees will receive:
A digital book providing a high-level update summary that focuses on how evidence can be clinically applied. Access to all recorded lectures.
Learning Objectives:

Summarize the current evidence supporting high quality serious illness clinical care.
Synthesize the clinical application of evidence supporting high quality serious illness clinical care.

Target Audience

Individuals/professionals with a higher education degree, certification or other accreditation in a recognized profession with involvement in or interest in supportive care (palliative care, psychosocial oncology, cancer rehabilitation & survivorship).
Students studying in a discipline related to supportive care (palliative care, psychosocial oncology, cancer rehabilitation & survivorship).

PROGRAM
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Palliative Care in the Community: Caregiving, Vision & Advocacy
2024-05-06 15:00 - 18:00 | Ottawa Conference & Event Centre, 200 Coventry Rd, Ottawa, Ontario, K1K 4S3, Canada

National Palliative Care Week
2024-05-05 - 2024-05-11

Pediatric Project ECHO: Acute Pain Management
2024-05-03 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
