Events for Health-Care Professionals
The team at BCCPC has gathered links to education events designed for Health Care Providers caring for people affected by life-limiting illness. The events are not created or endorsed by BCCPC unless stated in the description.
COVID-19
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Hosted by Pallium Canada This webinar will cover how COVID-19 has affected LTC residents, their families, and staff. We will discuss approaches to symptom management, family caregiver issues and essential conversations in the LTC setting. Speakers include Benoît Robert, MD, MBA; Sharon Kaasalainen RN, BScN, MSc, PhD; and Michael MacFadden, NP. The webinar will be […] |
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Centre to Advance Palliative Care's (CAPC) virtual office hours are small-group consulting calls with leading subject matter experts. Experienced faculty will answer your questions on a wide variety of challenging topics. Stay on for the whole hour, or hop on, hop off. This supportive session provides an opportunity to discuss with your peers how the […] |
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Centre to Advance Palliative Care's (CAPC) virtual office hours are small-group consulting calls with leading subject matter experts. Experienced faculty will answer your questions on a wide variety of challenging topics. Stay on for the whole hour, or hop on, hop off. This Virtual Office Hour is free and open to all, but space is […] |
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How has COVID-19 changed your palliative care practice? The Canadian Virtual Hospice and the Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians invite you to join a discussion moderated by Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov, featuring Dr. Leonie Herx, Susan Blacker, Dr. Anne Boyle, Dr. Cornelius Woelk and Jan Vandale on Monday, May 4th at 8pm EST (5pm […] |
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Centre to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) Join our panel discussion and Q&A with palliative care leaders as they explore dimensions of leading through a crisis. Panelists will discuss constructive approaches to challenges that leaders are currently facing and address ways leaders can help their organizations pivot toward the future. This event is for members only. For […]
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COVID-19 is affecting each one of us and the people and families we care for. We at the BC Centre for Palliative Care and at Life and Death Matters want to support you during this challenging time. We invite you, the heroes on the front-line, to an informal chat (like a visit around the kitchen […] |
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Description This ten session webinar series will focus on COVID-19 related complicated and traumatic grief. The sessions will provide practical models, assessment tools and practical ways to facilitate the work of complicated and traumatic grief within a trauma informed practice. Sessions will include coping with suffering, spirituality and trauma, revisiting loss history and past traumas. […]
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COVID-19 is affecting each one of us and the people and families we care for. We at the BC Centre for Palliative Care and at Life and Death Matters want to support you during this challenging time. We invite you, the heroes on the front-line, to an informal chat (like a visit around the kitchen […] |
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Free webinar through Canadian Virtual Hospice. Presenters: Dr. Christopher MacKinnon (PhD, OPQ) and Marney Thompson (MA, RCC) To join the meeting: https://canadianvirtualhospice.adobeconnect.com/cvhcovid/ To optimize your experience, please download the Adobe Connect application. Please close any other programs or webpages before joining the webinar. April 24th webinar available to watch and webinar slides.
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This webinar will cover virtual care in the time of COVID-19. Panelists will discuss how they started providing virtual care, what changes they’ve made since the pandemic, and what resources have helped them adapt. Host: Dr. José Pereira Moderator: Dr. J. David Henderson Panelists: Dr. Naheed Dosani, Dr. Robert Horton, Dr. Denise Marshall, and Dr. […] |
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Spotlight Series Presents: Advance Care Planning and Serious Illness Conversations – Lessons for Improvement COVID-19 has heightened awareness of the need for people of all ages and all states of illness or health to reflect on what matters to them and what kind of care they would want in the future should they become seriously […] |
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COVID-19 is affecting each one of us and the people and families we care for. We at the BC Centre for Palliative Care and at Life and Death Matters want to support you during this challenging time. We invite you, the heroes on the front-line, to an informal chat (like a visit around the kitchen […] |
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During this global pandemic, health care professionals and organizations around the world have further recognized the need to engage in proactive (before a health crisis) Advance Care Planning and Serious Illness conversations with at-risk patients. Join this conversation to learn how to identify at-risk patients in the context of COVID-19, prepare yourself and your patients, […] |
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This series is open to all primary and ambulatory healthcare workers across the globe using or planning on using electronic information and telecommunication technologies to support and promote long-distance clinical health care and patient education. Telehealth can address COVID-19 and other epidemic situations by limiting exposure to infection for vulnerable populations and health care workers […] |
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Free webinar through Canadian Virtual Hospice. Presenters: Dr. Christopher MacKinnon (PhD, OPQ) and Marney Thompson (MA, RCC) To join the meeting: https://canadianvirtualhospice.adobeconnect.com/cvhcovid/ To optimize your experience, please download the Adobe Connect application. Please close any other programs or webpages before joining the webinar. *Teleconference is not offered. Please ensure that your computer speakers are […] |
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This Master Clinician session provides a unique opportunity to discuss COVID-related issues of moral distress with Ira Bedzow, PhD, Director of the Biomedical Ethics and Humanities Program at New York Medical College, and Senior Scholar at the Aspen Center for Social Values. Dr. Bedzow will offer a framework for examining one’s own moral distress by […] |
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This webinar is in association with IFIC Canada, the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto and The Change Foundation. It will be chaired by Jodeme Goldhar, Executive Lead, Strategy and Innovation at The Change Foundation and Professor Walter Wodchis from the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the […] |
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We’ve heard the analogy that responding to the COVID-19 pandemic is a marathon, not a sprint. Health care workers in all positions and disciplines are cautioned repeatedly about the importance of self-care practices so they can go the distance. But now, several months into this crisis, your resiliency techniques may be starting to feel stale […] |
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DESCRIPTION COVID-19 has had a major impact on the psychological well being of health care providers, especially those working on the front lines of care. Building on a previous webinar of a similar topic, this webinar will explore in more detail the psychological impact and effective approaches to help health care providers care for themselves […] |
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How has COVID-19 changed your palliative care practice? The Canadian Virtual Hospice and the Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians invite you to join a discussion moderated by Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov, featuring Dr. Leonie Herx, Susan Blacker, Dr. Anne Boyle, Dr. Cornelius Woelk and Jan Vandale on Tuesday, June 2nd at 8pm EST. […] |
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A primer to familiarize front line staff on respiratory symptom management in palliative care and end of life. Respiratory symptoms are common with COVID-19 and managing symptoms related to respiratory illness will be critical to a person’s comfort and dignity. This primer is to provide an overview of management and to improve comfort level of […]
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Free webinar through Canadian Virtual Hospice. Presenters: Dr. Christopher MacKinnon (PhD, OPQ) and Marney Thompson (MA, RCC) To join the meeting: https://canadianvirtualhospice.adobeconnect.com/cvhcovid/ To optimize your experience, please download the Adobe Connect application. Please close any other programs or webpages before joining the webinar. *Teleconference is not offered. Please ensure that your computer speakers are […]
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Organized by Pallium Canada. This webinar will explore lessons being learned about the readiness of hospitals to provide palliative care to patients with serious illnesses, whether COVID positive or negative. Panelists will share their personal observations and experiences in their respective jurisdictions, and provide insights on how hospitals can strengthen access to palliative for patients […] |
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