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Community-Based Palliative Care Community of Practice
2025-06-25 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Vancouver) | Virtual
Take part in the next session in the Community-Based Primary Palliative Care Community of Practice, “Palliative Care for Adolescents and Young Adults.”
This session will focus on the unique needs of adolescents and young adults (AYA) with serious illness, exploring physical and psychosocial challenges, and developing age-appropriate care strategies to address their developmental, emotional, and existential concerns.
This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 10.0 Mainpro+® credits.
Presenters:

Pamela Mosher, MD, MDiv, Staff Psychiatrist, Psychosocial Oncology, Supportive Care, and the Adolescent/Young Adult (AYA) Program at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Alexandra Saltman, MD
Sofia Canales Albarran, MD

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Heart Disease Community of Practice
2025-06-25 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
Join the Heart Disease Community of Practice of their upcoming session, “Non-ischemic causes of heart failure.”
This session will provide strategies for identifying non-ischemic causes of heart failure, such as congenital heart disease and amyloidosis, and different management techniques for non-ischemic heart failure.
This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 6.0 Mainpro+® credits.
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IAHPC Workshop: Speak with Impact - Palliative Care Elevator Pitch
2025-06-26 - 2025-06-27 | Virtual
An elevator pitch is a clear, brief message, typically about 30 seconds: the time of a typical elevator ride. An elevator pitch is approximately 80 to 90 words, or 8 to 10 short sentences.
Why is an elevator pitch important?
First impressions matter and research show that these are formed within seconds of the first encounter.
The goal of this two-module workshop is to provide IAHPC members a tool to make the most of anticipated and unexpected opportunities to relay a compelling message about palliative care. This elevator pitch workshop prepares you to effectively share information with others, no matter how brief the opportunity.
Learning objectives: By the end of the workshop participants will be able to:

Define the concept, purpose, and format for a palliative care elevator pitch.
Develop a personalized palliative care elevator pitch.
Present their palliative care elevator pitch effectively.

An internal committee will select twelve IAHPC members in good standing who respond to this call and meet the following criteria:

Have good English speaking and writing skills
Can access a high-speed internet connection
Are available to participate in the two live sessions

Dates: June 26 and 27. Each module will last 90 minutes.
Time: 7:00 PST, 9:00 CST, 10:00 EST, 14:00 GMT, 16:00 CET
Preregistration is required. IAHPC members who participate in both sessions will receive a Certificate from the IAHPC.
The webinar is free for IAHPC members. Join/Renew your IAHPC membership to support our advocacy and communications program.

2025 World Hospice and Palliative Care Day: Using the Toolkit Effectively Webinar
2025-06-26 06:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
The WHPCA invites you to a free WHPCD webinar on 26th June 2025 at 09:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) and you must register in advance HERE. The purpose of hosting the webinar is to walk you through the toolkit to help you better understand how to use it effectively. Faculty this year will include:

Dr Stephen Connor, Executive Director WHPCA (host)
Mr. Howard Kinyua, WHPCA/ICPCN Communications Manager
Dr Helena Davies, Advocacy Officer WHPCA, & Coordinator WHPCA People with lived experience program
Elizabeth Mattfeld, Programme Manager WHPCA

Community of Practice Series for Home Healthcare Professionals (in French)
2025-06-26 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
The Montreal Institute for Palliative Care invites you to the next session in their Community of Practice Series for Home Healthcare Professionals, “The Hidden Face of Pain in Palliative Care Patients.”
Led by Dr. Stéfanie Gingras and Dr. Marie Solange Bernatchez, this session will explore the concept of total pain as defined by Dame Cicely Saunders. They will discuss the important influence that psychological stress can have on the pain profile of palliative care patients and facilitate the identification of death anxiety in palliative care patients.
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Discover the Canadian Atlas of Palliative Care: Ontario Edition
2025-06-26 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
Join us to explore the newly released Canadian Atlas of Palliative Care: Ontario Edition.
Developed by Pallium Canada, with support from the Division of Palliative Care at McMaster University and the Ontario Palliative Care Network, the Atlas is the first resource of its kind in Ontario to map out how palliative care is delivered and accessed across the province.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about this unique, interactive tool, and how it can be used to support evidence-based decision-making, improve care planning, and enhance equitable access to palliative care.
Presenters:

Jeffrey Moat, CEO of Pallium Canada
Dr. Leonie Herx, MD, PhD, CCFP(PC), FCFP, Project Co-lead and Co-Principal Investigator of the Atlas

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Exploring the Power of Equine Therapy in Grief Support
2025-06-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Part of our Grief & Bereavement Literacy ECHO Series
This session will have a presentation with time for Q & A.
Presenter: Veronica Tod, Grief Support Manager at Abbotsford Hospice and Grief Support Society
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Motivational Interviewing - Pain Management
2025-06-27 08:00 - 10:00 | Virtual

Flexing Your Core: The Palliative Workout
2025-07-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
The foundational series for all health care providers, hosted by the BC Centre for Palliative Care, is back!
These weekly sessions are based on palliative core competencies and offer a multidisciplinary learning opportunity to discuss incorporating the palliative approach to care into your daily practice in any clinical setting.
Take part in the first session, “Principles of Palliative Care & Palliative Approach,” which will introduce key concepts of a palliative approach, who would benefit from a palliative approach to care, and a health care provider’s role in providing this approach to care for their patients. Sessions will be held every Tuesday, beginning July 8.

Resuscitation Course for Acute Medicine Practicing Physicians
2025-07-12 | Winnipeg, MB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
CCCS is pleased to announce the N-ACES *NEW* Resuscitation Course for Acute Medicine Practicing Physicians (ReCAPP). Register before April 30 to take advantage of early-bird rates!
ReCAPP has been designed to provide a high-quality, interactive educational opportunity for Canadian practicing physicians who are involved in the initial or ongoing care of acutely unstable patients, increasingly cared for outside the walls of an Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
This course, delivered by a group of Canadian critical care physician-educators, will offer to its participants numerous opportunities for practice and formative feedback, in a non-judgmental, low-risk, informal learning environment. Our main goal is to create conditions where physicians can learn together and from each other how to care for their sickest patients, and ultimately, improve the quality of care received by critically ill patients.
Who Should Attend?
Any physicians (e.g., emergency medicine, internal medicine, family medicine, etc.) involved intermittently or routinely in the care of acutely and severely ill patients (e.g., who may require a transfer to the ICU or are already admitted in an ICU), and who want to 1) practice or upscale clinical skills that they need but may use only sporadically, 2) advance their knowledge and skills within specific areas of practice, and/or 3) ensure they are up to date on a range of topics.
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ACLS Provider Training
2025-07-14 08:00 - 17:00 | The Simulation Centre, 175 Elizabeth Street, Level B1, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Provider (Blended Course) aims to improve outcomes for adult patients of cardiopulmonary arrest and other cardiovascular emergencies through early recognition and interventions by high-performance teams. Through didactic instruction and active participation in simulated cases, students enhance their skills in the recognition and intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest, immediate post-cardiac arrest, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes.
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PRE-REQUISITES

Completed ACLS Pre-course Assessment. Passing score 70%.
Completion of this Part 1 module, including passing of the written exam. Passing score of 84%.
Valid BLS certification from Heart and Stroke Foundation (within 12 months at the time that you attend the part 2 in-person component).

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Healthcare providers who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest or other cardiovascular emergencies (physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, registered respiratory therapists, dentists, dental assistants, etc.)

PALS Renewal Training
2025-07-17 08:00 - 17:00 | The Simulation Centre, 175 Elizabeth Street, Level B1, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Paediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Renewal course provides healthcare providers the opportunity to practise and train in dynamic role-playing situations that mirror real life. You will be introduced to a wide range of life-threatening, all-hands-on-deck scenarios involving pediatric patients experiencing respiratory emergencies, shock and cardiopulmonary arrest in which you apply a systematic approach that includes the evaluate-identify-intervene sequence. The goal is to strengthen your ability to recognize, intervene, communicate and work effectively as a critical member of a healthcare team.
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PRE-REQUISITES

Completed PALS Pre-course Assessment. Passing score 70%.
Valid PALS Provider course (within the last 24 months).
Valid BLS certification from Heart and Stroke Foundation (completed within the last 12 months).

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Healthcare providers who either direct or participate in the management of respiratory and/or cardiovascular emergencies and cardiopulmonary arrest in pediatric patients. This includes but is not limited to: physicians, physician assistants, registered nurses, nurse practitioners, registered respiratory therapists, dentists, dental assistants.

BCHPCA Virtual AGM
2025-07-17 11:00 - 12:30 | Virtual
Want to learn more about the Grief & Bereavement (G&B) Funding Strategy Working Group?
Join us at BCHPCA’s upcoming virtual Annual General Meeting on Thursday, July 17, 2025, from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM (PST).
We’ll also be celebrating over 40 years of community support provided by hospice societies in delivering end-of-life care, hospice palliative care, and grief and bereavement services.
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Rural Reach Webinar: Helping Patients Face A Serious Illness
2025-07-29 17:00 - 18:00
Join Drs. Sammy Winemaker & Hsien Seow for this webinar for health care providers to learn 7 Keys to make it easier to talk about serious illness, dying, and death.
Please note, this is not an accredited event.
Free for SRPC Members / $50 for General Admission
Can’t make it live? No worries! The session will be recorded and shared with registered attendees.
By the end of the session participants will be able to:

Describe 7 keys for navigating a life-changing diagnosis for patients, families and providers
Identify how implementing the 7 keys will ultimately benefit healthcare providers and facilitate person-centred care
Learn how to apply the 7 keys into practice

Presenters:
Dr. Hsien Seow is the Canada Research Chair in Palliative Care and Health System Innovation and a professor in the Department of Oncology at McMaster University. He publishes health care research focused on improving the patient and family experience for those facing serious illness. He is the co-author of The Tao of Innovation: Nine Questions Every Innovator Must Answer.
Dr. Samantha Winemaker is a palliative care physician who cares for patients with serious illness and their families in the home. She is a clinical professor at McMaster University in the Department of Family Medicine, Division of Palliative Care. She has won numerous awards for her leadership and palliative care education for health care professionals
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Inking the Bond
2025-07-31 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Part of our Grief & Bereavement Literacy ECHO Series
This talk is a conversation about tattoos, grief, and growth. Stories will be drawn from research and personal experience. The three speakers are all social workers who love to talk about tattoos, the intersection of taboo, the connection to the deceased and the way they can contribute to the process of meaning making.
Presenter: Susan Cadell, PhD, RSW Professor, School of Social Work, Renison University College
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Experiencing Grief as a Health Care Provider
2025-08-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual

Anticipating End of Life: Competencies for Compassionate, Person-Centred Care
2025-09-02 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
As serious illness advances or the body declines with age, there are key signs indicating that death is near. Timely recognition of these changes by home care providers enables prompt symptom management, ensures comfort, and helps guide families through emotional and practical preparations.
In this ECHO session, Dr. Doris Barwich, palliative care physician, will explore how home care providers can recognize these signs, address symptoms, and communicate with families—essential elements of compassionate, person-centred end-of-life care that align with patient wishes and values.
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New Framework for Adults with IDD (NOSM University)
2025-09-04 05:00 - 06:30 | Virtual
Palliative Care Education Session: New Framework for Adults with IDD
Speaker: Janet Elder
Learning Objectives:

Outline the key elements of the new palliative care framework for individuals with IDD.
Use the framework to identify palliative care needs in patients with IDD.
Apply the framework and resources address the palliative care needs of patients with IDD.

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Empowering Palliative Patients and Families in BC: A Unique Palliative Navigation Program
2025-09-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Join the BC Centre for Palliative Care for the next session in their All Together ECHO series, “Empowering Palliative Patients and Families in BC: A Unique Palliative Navigation Program.”
This volunteer-based program has supported palliative patients and families from the Ismaili Community in the Lower Mainland since 2017. Afzal Mangalji will share the team’s key experiences and learnings and will review the unique tools that the program has developed to rapidly assess the supports required by palliative patients and their families.
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Comfort Nutrition & End of Life Session
2025-09-11 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual

Dignity in Care - Online Training
2025-09-12 07:00 - 11:00, 2025-09-19 07:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Designed to enhance the human side of healthcare, this 3-day workshop focuses on the role and application of dignity in all aspects of clinical practice. The research, assessment tools, and clinical applications of dignity conserving care will be examined during Day 1, while Day 2 and Day 3 provide a detailed look at the clinical application of Dignity Therapy. If you are looking to expand your ability to care for patients as people, to reconnect with why you chose to work in healthcare in the first place, or to broaden your community of like-minded clinicians, this is the workshop for you.
Workshop dates are September 5th, 12th and 19th . 0900 – 1300 CST
Overall Learning Objectives Addressed:
At the end of this workshop, participants should be able to:

Define, describe, and discuss the essential elements of personhood (medical expert, FM expert)
Recognize and utilize assessment tools pertaining to the provision and maintenance of dignity in clinical practice (collaborator, communicator, professional)
Identify, practice, and analyze the key elements of Dignity Therapy in practice (advocate, leader)
Conceptualize ways to incorporate greater dignity conserving care in one’s own professional practice (scholar)

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Palliative Care Journal Watch
2025-09-15 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
Staying up to date on the latest and greatest in peer-reviewed palliative care research can be challenging. Let the Journal Watch do it for you!
Join Dr. José Pereira, Dr. Leonie Herx, and special guests as they explore the most recent releases in palliative care literature, with an emphasis on practice change and system design.
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17th World Congress of Intensive & Critical Care
2025-09-16 - 2025-09-19 | Vancouver Convention Centre, 1055 Canada Pl V6C 0C38, Vancouver, BC, V6C 0C38, Canada
The Canadian Critical Care Society (CCCS), in partnership with the Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses (CACCN), and the Canadian Society of Respiratory Therapists (CSRT) are excited to host the 17th World Congress of Intensive and Critical Care from September 16-19, 2025, in Vancouver, Canada.
We look forward to bringing our uniquely Canadian culture and diversity to all aspects of this exciting event. The theme of the program is “caring intensively” and we hope you will join us! We are excited to offer a Congress to remember and a global platform for collaboration in Intensive and Critical Care Medicine in our beautiful city of Vancouver.
For more information, please visit: www.wcicc2025.com

Resident Award Presentation
2025-09-17 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
This award is for the best scholarly project by a resident enrolled in a palliative medicine residency program.
More details to come!

Dignity, Personhood and Intensive Caring: New Insights into Patient Suffering
2025-09-17 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
Dr. Jane Poulson Lecture: Dignity, Personhood and Intensive Caring: New Insights into Patient Suffering

Join Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov in this upcoming session of the McGill Palliative Care National Grand Rounds Programme as he explores the complex interplay between dignity, personhood, and intensive caring in the context of patient suffering.
Drawing on decades of pioneering research in palliative and end-of-life care, Dr. Chochinov will present key empirical research in palliative and end-of-life care, examine the role of human dignity in clinical settings, and introduce the core principles of intensive caring, offering practical guidance for improving care for patients facing serious illness.
This session is accredited and will be delivered in English, with French closed captions available for online attendees via Zoom settings.

Join online: Live via Zoom
Attend in person: Osler Amphitheatre, Montreal General Hospital, 1650 Av. Cedar, Montréal, QC H3H 1V6

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Palliative Manitoba Annual Conference
2025-09-18 - 2025-09-19 | Canad Inns Polo Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1405 St. Matthews Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3G 0K5, Canada
Palliative Manitoba is now accepting abstracts! Abstracts submitted must fit the theme “Building Blocks for Palliative Care”. We are looking for presentations that focus on: delivery of a palliative care approach in various settings; what good palliative care looks like early in the illness trajectory; what good end-of-life care looks like when someone is actively dying; the role of specialists in palliative care; and palliative care misconceptions.
CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES

Advance the knowledge and skills of individuals working in the field of palliative care
Advance the delivery of palliative care by advocating for increased awareness, navigation of systems, and utilization of available services
Provide a networking opportunity for people interested in the field of palliative care
Provide an opportunity for informal caregivers to learn more about palliative care

Antipsychotic Use in LTC Webinar
2025-09-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Many long-term care homes have rates of potentially inappropriate antipsychotic use well above Canada’s new 15% target. These rates are measured using CIHI’s quality indicator, but understanding what counts as “potentially inappropriate,” as well as the inclusion and exclusion criteria, can be challenging.
Join the Appropriate Use Coalition on September 18 from 12-1 p.m. ET for a deep dive into your questions about inappropriate antipsychotic use. Experts will define the indicator, why it matters, and offer practical guidance on how homes can safely work toward the new target.
Speakers:

Julie Weir, Long-Term Care Clinician Co-Lead, Choosing Wisely Canada
Norma Hall, Project Lead, Specialized Care Development, Canadian Institute for Health Information

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Interprofessional Palliative Care Community of Practice
2025-09-19 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
Collaboration across the health care system is at the heart of high-quality palliative care. This community of practice brings together clinicians, allied health professionals, and other health care professionals from across disciplines to deepen knowledge, share experiences, and strengthen team-based care.

Take part in the upcoming session, “Communication Access in Palliative Care,” to learn more about interprofessional strategies to support patients and families with different communication needs.
Presenters:

Bonnie Cooke, Director of Audiology | Speech-Language & Audiology Canada
Jennifer Cameron-Turley, Interim Director of Speech-Language Pathology and Communication Health Assistants Speech-Language & Audiology Canada

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2nd Annual Rural and MINI Remote Medicine Conference (MINI RR 2025)
2025-09-20 | Regina, Saskatchewan, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
