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Palliative Care McGill Continuing Professional Development Day (hybrid)
2025-11-21
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Waking Experiences of the Deceased: From Bereavement to End of Life
2025-11-25 12:00 - 13:15 (America/Vancouver) | Virtual
Part of our Grief & Bereavement Literacy ECHO Series
This session explores the moments when individuals report waking experiences of the deceased, which can include seeing, hearing, smelling, and feeling the touch of the deceased. Normalizing these experiences can help reduce distress in all those who experience them in bereavement and at the end of life.
Poster you can print and share linked here. *This session is scheduled for 75min*
Presenter:

Joshua Black, Ph.D. – Bereavement Initiatives Manager, BC Centre for Palliative Care

with guests:

Marney Thompson, M.A., Director of Bereavement Services, Victoria Hospice Society
Paul Adams, co-chair of the Canadian Grief Alliance

This series is for anyone interested in increasing their knowledge around grief and bereavement to support them personally or in their professional careers.
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21st Annual Innovations in Palliative Care Virtual Conference
2025-11-26 11:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
The Division of Palliative Care in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University is pleased to present the 21st Annual Innovations in Palliative Care Virtual Conference. Pallium Canada is excited to be the delivery partner again this year, as this fantastic event continues online.
21st Innovations in Palliative Care 2025: Made in Canada!
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Methadone4Pain Webinar Series
2025-11-27 05:00 - 06:00 | Virtual
Join us for our free, semiannual Methadone4Pain webinar series—this one taking place in the fall!
We’d greatly appreciate your help in spreading the word by sharing the details below with anyone who might be interested.
🎙️ Speaker: Dr. Pippa Hawley, Palliative Medicine Specialist, BC Cancer
💰 Cost: Free
To register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3717610840222/WN_BFks6MATTguZa4vbMrLf-g
Dr. Pippa Hawley will provide a brief description of the Methadone4Pain online course and lead a discussion on participant’s questions about methadone prescribing. This webinar will be of interest to physicians, medical students, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, and nurses who are interested in taking or have completed the course. This webinar provides an opportunity to obtain more information, ask questions, and share your experience.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a specialist and connect with others prescribing methadone for pain management.
Methadone4Pain is a free online course on methadone for analgesia in palliative care that has been certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons and the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

Potentially Inappropriate Antipsychotic Use in LTC: Alternative Approaches
2025-11-27 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual

Upcoming Webinar on PH Clinical Trials with Dr. David Langleben
2025-11-27 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
Webinar: Progress (or not) in PH – Insights from Recent Clinical Trials

📅 Date: Wednesday, November 27
🕓 Time: 4:00 PM (EST)
📍 Location: Online (Zoom)
🎙️ Speaker: Dr. David Langleben

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This session will explore the latest developments in pulmonary hypertension (PH) research, including both breakthroughs and lessons from recent clinical trials. Dr. David Langleben will share insights on how the definition of “success” is evolving in the world of PH treatment—and what this means for the future of patient care.
A toolkit with promotional graphics as been created to make it easy to share this opportunity with your community.
This free educational event.

Therapeutics Initiative Annual Course 2025
2025-11-28 - 2025-11-29 | Virtual
The 2025 edition of the TI Annual Course will be held this year as a virtual (online) event on November 28-29, 2025.
In addition to presentations by our own faculty, we have lined up an impressive group of speakers who will present on the following topics:

Self-diagnosis and diagnosis of ADHD in adults (Allison Harrison)
Post-MI preventative treatments (Jamie Falk)
Treating pain is harder than it looks (David Juurlink)
Menopause (Ilana Lega)
Highlights from PAD topics (Cait O’Sullivan)

The TI Annual Course 2025 will have 2 live sessions, one in the afternoon of Friday, November 28 and one in the morning of Saturday, November 29.
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CME Day 2025
2025-11-28 08:00 - 17:00 | Virtual
UBC Division of Palliative Care CME Day is dedicated to deepening our understanding and skills in providing care for patients with non-cancer diagnoses. Designed for both generalists and specialist palliative care practitioners, this year’s theme “When Organs and Spirits Falter: Palliative Care Beyond Cancer” focuses on the unique challenges of conditions that often receive less attention in research and practice.
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UBC Division of Palliative Care CME Day 2025
2025-11-28 08:15 - 15:30 | Virtual
Registration now open
Virtual Conference
Audience: family physicians, palliative care physicians, hospitalists, nurse practitioners practicing palliative care, nurses, pharmacists, residents and students.
Overview: Registration is now open for this year’s UBC Division of Palliative Care CME Day! This year’s theme is “When Organs and Spirits Falter: Palliative Care beyond Cancer”, focusing on practical approaches to non-cancer diagnoses, which are especially challenging to manage in a world where data and practice patterns remain focused on cancer patients. This includes not only cardiac and neurological disease, but also existential and spiritual distress. You will also come away with tips for prescribing methadone and approaching palliative emergencies. Register by October 13 and take advantage of early bird rates!
Up to 6.25 Mainpro+/MOC Section 1 credits
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CME Day 2025: When Organs and Spirits Falter — Palliative Care beyond Cancer
2025-11-28 08:15 - 15:30 | Virtual
Time to get excited about this year’s Division of Palliative Care CME Day—When Organs and Spirits Falter: Palliative Care beyond Cancer! As we strive to every year, we have taken an approach that will appeal to generalists and specialist palliative practitioners alike. This year’s focus will be on non-cancer diagnoses, which are especially challenging to manage in a world where data and practice patterns remain focused on cancer patients. This includes not only cardiac and neurological disease, but also existential and spiritual distress. You will also come away with tips for prescribing methadone and approaching palliative emergencies. We look forward to your joining us this autumn.
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NOSM University Palliative Care Education Session
2025-12-04 05:00 - 18:30 | Virtual

Achieving the Promise: Universal Access to Palliative Care
2025-12-09 08:00 - 09:00 | Virtual
This PAHO–IAHPC webinar will address essential and expanded palliative care service packages for children and adults. It will present the evidence, conceptual framework, and proposal for these packages; analyze opportunities, gaps, and challenges for their adoption and integration into health systems; and highlight resources, tools, and technical support from PAHO and IAHPC to strengthen national capacities and promote equitable and sustainable access to palliative care in the Region of the Americas.
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Achieving the Promise: Universal Access to Palliative Care (IAHPC)
2025-12-09 08:00 - 09:00 | Virtual

McGill National Grand Rounds
2025-12-10 09:00 - 10:00 | Jewish General Hospital- Aberman Auditorium, A-102, 3755 Cote Ste Catherine Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1E2, Canada
We’re closing out the 2025 National Grand Rounds strong with an unforgettable lecture from Dr. Megan Doherty, WHO consultant for palliative care. She will deliver the Bernard Lapointe Lecture.

Review innovative approaches for the implementation of palliative care in different settings.

Assess strategies to address the most important challenges in palliative care today.
Appraise the latest research in the field of palliative care.

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Location (in-person): Aberman Auditorium, A-102. Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal, QC H3T 1E2
This lecture will be given in English. Closed captioning is available in French for online participants.
25% of all National Grand Rounds lectures are interactive.

From Vision to Reality: Understanding the Development and Delivery of the PGHPCS Home Hospice Program
2025-12-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Part of our All Together ECHO Series This in-service session offers an insightful, step-by-step journey through the development of the Prince George Hospice Palliative Care Society’s (PGHPCS) Home Hospice Program—a compassionate model of care that brings hospice support directly into the homes of those nearing the end of life. Attendees will gain a deep understanding of how the program was conceived, thoughtfully planned, effectively implemented, and is continuously evaluated to ensure high-quality care and responsiveness to community needs.
Presenter: Donna Flood, Executive Director, Prince George Hospice Palliative Care Society Erin Connelly, Director of Operations, Prince George Hospice Palliative Care Society
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Palliative Care Education Session - NOSM
2026-01-08 05:00 - 06:30 | Virtual

Understanding the Connection Between Pulmonary Hypertension & Scleroderma
2026-01-13 10:30 - 11:30 | Virtual

Adapting the Serious Illness Conversation Guide for South Asian Communities
2026-01-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual

McGill National Grand Rounds
2026-01-21 09:00 - 10:00 | Research Institute (MUHC), 1001 Decarie Blvd, Montreal, Quebec, H4A 3J1, Canada
“Harnessing the power of routinely collected patient reported outcomes (PROs) to improve early access to palliative care: One provincial cancer jurisdiction’s experience”
Linda Watson, BScN, MN, PhD
Cancer Care Alberta
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Learning Objectives

Understand how one provincial cancer jurisdiction in Canada integrated patient reported outcomes into routine care to improve capacity for targeted symptom management.
Explore trends, patterns, and predictive capacity of routinely collected PRO data in relation to the cancer patients being treated for Advanced Cancer (8,500 patients in 2023).
Discuss efforts underway to harness this data and our provincial EMR to develop decision support tools to flag patients who benefit from palliative care.

Please note that this lecture will be given in English. Closed captions will be available in French (and other languages) for those attending online.

Indigenous Voices: Supporting Healthy Ways of Living through Grief & Loss
2026-01-21 15:00 - 16:30 | Virtual

Antipsychotic Use in Long-Term Care
2026-01-22 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual

Finding the Sweet Spot: Choosing Glycemic Control Wisely for Older Adults with Diabetes
2026-01-23 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual

International Lessons on Safe Benzodiazepine Deprescribing
2026-01-28 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual

Pain in Children with Medical Complexity
2026-01-29 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual

Managing Sleep Disturbances - Pediatric ECHO Project
2026-01-30 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual

12th Geriatric Psychiatry Online Course
2026-02-02 | Virtual
The Geriatric Psychiatry Online Course (GPOC) is an international geriatric psychiatry online course tailored to residents, family physicians, psychiatrists and diverse allied health professionals. Our course consists of standalone modules, each one covering a different topic related to the mental health of older adults. For more than a decade, allied health professionals, physicians and trainees alike have found our course a valuable learning experience. Select one or several modules to “choose your own adventure”.
Course Highlights:

Multidisciplinary case-based learning and discussions
Meet faculty experts
Practical tools and resources
Concise overviews for each topic
Clinically relevant
Facilitators and Faculty
Embedded medication talks
Sharing of tools and resources
Choose your own module experience
Discount for groups and international participants – more information below

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6th International Francophone Scientific Day (JSFI)
2026-02-05 05:00 - 09:00 | Virtual
The Quebec Network for Research in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (RQSPAL), in conjunction with the French organization the National Platform for End-of-Life Research, will hold its 6th International Francophone Scientific Day (JSFI) online on February 5, 2026 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (Quebec time). This edition is entitled: The complexity of suffering in palliative and end-of-life care.
We believe that this Scientific Day would benefit from being promoted to the staff of your organization. If you deem it appropriate, we invite you to distribute the invitation to our event to them in your preferred ways (email, newsletter, social media, etc.). You will find attached an official invitation, which can be copied and pasted, as well as a visual aid.
The event is intended for health and social services professionals and stakeholders, as well as administrators, decision-makers, researchers, students and others who are committed to palliative and end-of-life care
Learn more about the program on the event’s website.
To participate, reserve your spot via this Zoom registration form!
The event is free, but registration is required.

Compassion in Action - Two-Part Online Workshop
2026-02-07 | Virtual
Practice leading difficult conversations commonly encountered in palliative and end-of-life care through 3 standardized patient scenarios. Take away key communication strategies you can apply in all areas of your practice. Develop essential communication skills that can contribute to better health outcomes, team collaboration, and patient and practitioner satisfaction. Register early to secure your spot in this limited enrolment program.

Bearing the Pain of the Other: A Call to Compassion in Care
2026-02-11 07:00 - 08:00 | Virtual

End of Life Care (including Pain) - Palliative Care ECHO Core Competency
2026-02-11 08:00 - 09:00 | Virtual
Core Competency Webinars will focus on fundamentals rather than specific cases explored in ECHO Sessions. To explore these topics effectively we will be limiting the number of attendees. Access will be granted on a first-come, first-serve basis and as such we encourage you register as soon as you can.
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