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.

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  • Session 9 Topic – Indigenous Health & Well-Being in a Palliative Care Context Part 2    

    Competencies – Domain 2 – Cultural safety & humility. Advocates for incorporation of the person’s and family’s cultural traditions, beliefs, expectations, and preferences into decision making, care planning, and service delivery models. Facilitates expression and inclusion of the person’s and family’s values, beliefs, and wishes during declining health and bereavement. Advocates for changes in policy to facilitate incorporation of culture into care.  Domain 3 – Communication. Provides support, mediation, and advocacy in exploring and clarifying treatment goals and care planning.  Domain 4 – Comfort & quality of life. Adapts care to address persons fears and anxieties related to past trauma. Understands, educates, and works with the person/family and inter-professional team about the interplay of spiritual, emotional, social, cognitive, and physical aspects of the person’s past experiences on their current quality of life.  Describe strategies for persons in a helping role to assist them in reconciling working within a healthcare system that has and continues to do significant harm to Indigenous peoples and their way of being  Describe strategies and approaches people can use in their clinical practice to recognize and acknowledge both the devastating experiences of indigenous peoples both within and outside the healthcare system and the impact of these experiences on their decision-making around access to and receiving end of life care  Describe strategies and approaches people can use in their clinical practice to honour and value the stories of Indigenous peoples in a respectful way that builds trusting relationships and allyship, fosters connections, and allows Indigenous voices to be heard at all stages of life 

  • Webinar Series: Fatigue, burnout, and resilience

    Event hosted by: Life & Death Matters Inc.,  Hospice Palliative Care Ontario (HPCO) and Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association. These webinars are for Personal Support Workers, Health Care Assistants, and Continuing Care Assistants, and will be beneficial for everyone supporting people with life-limiting and life-threatening illness. During this past year, many PSWs have experienced fatigue, burnout and exhaustion. […]

  • Kids Grief Q and A

    Event hosted by: Canadian Virtual Hospice Event cost: Free Andrea Warnick, children's grief therapist answers your questions. To stay informed about the date and time of upcoming webinars and to receive webinar links and recordings  click here    

    Free

  • Webinar Series: What to say when you don’t know what to say

    Event hosted by:  Life & Death Matters Inc.,  Hospice Palliative Care Ontario (HPCO) and Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association. These webinars are for Personal Support Workers, Health Care Assistants, and Continuing Care Assistants, and will be beneficial for everyone supporting people with life-limiting and life-threatening illness. “My biggest fear is not knowing what to say…” “What is someone […]

  • Webinar Series: “But they’re not palliative yet!”

    Event hosted by:  Life & Death Matters Inc.,  Hospice Palliative Care Ontario (HPCO) and Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association. These webinars are for Personal Support Workers, Health Care Assistants, and Continuing Care Assistants, and will be beneficial for everyone supporting people with life-limiting and life-threatening illness. Time to address the myths of palliative care! Learn how integrating a palliative […]

  • The Pandemic Made Me Do It – Moving from “death by PowerPoint” to engaging e-learning

    online

    Dates: Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021  Focus: Throughout the pandemic, educators have had to scramble to modify in-person sessions to online. Most of the time, the best we could do was PowerPoint over Zoom. The downside was that learners could have the camera off and could be snoozing, not even in the room, or even walking […]

  • Webinar Series: Help for the Holidays!

    Event hosted by: Life & Death Matters Inc.,  Hospice Palliative Care Ontario (HPCO) and Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association. These webinars are for Personal Support Workers, Health Care Assistants, and Continuing Care Assistants, and will be beneficial for everyone supporting people with life-limiting and life-threatening illness. The holidays can be a particularly difficult time for people who have […]

    Free

  • BC Patient Safety & Quality Council – Towards Unity for Health 2022 Conference

    Hybrid AMS Nest at UBC 6133 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    TUFH 2022 will be an international, intersectoral and intergenerational in-person and virtual conference with keynote sessions, TUFH documentaries, TUFH Talks, workshops and oral presentations. Registration: Click here Registration closes July 17. Discounted registration tickets are available for Indigenous Peoples – please contact [email protected]. Please note registration rates are in USD. Cost: $25

  • CPCNA WEBINAR – A Critical Gap: Improving Palliative Care for Indigenous Peoples

    online

    The CPCNA webinar series is taking a summer break, but mark your calendar for this informative session in September! CPCNA is pleased to present Holly Prince HBSW, MSW (Phd. Candidate) presenting on improving palliative care for Indigenous Peoples. In this webinar you will explore challenges and barriers that limit appropriate healthcare for Indigenous Peoples, identify […]

  • Palliative Care Intensive Course

    online

    The Victoria Hospice Palliative Care Intensive (PCI) course offers participants from a broad scope of professional practice a variety of approaches to end-of-life care. Offered online with two days of live webinars and interaction, the next session starts Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, with webinars November 3-4. Offering intermediate and some advanced aspects of palliative care, […]

  • Bluewater Palliative Care Retreat

    Hybrid AMS Nest at UBC 6133 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    The Bluewater Palliative Care Retreat is offering a world class conference at a beautiful lakeside resort for health care workers and volunteers involved with or interested in palliative care. This year’s conference will highlight important topics in patients with life limiting illnesses with an emphasis on palliative care in the elderly and palliative care during the […]

  • Palliative Pharmacy Care Course

    online

    Pharmacists are integral members of the multi-disciplinary team delivering palliative care to those facing life-threatening illness, including at the end of life. As more patients wish to remain at home for the end of life, pharmacists are increasingly called upon to contribute expertise in palliative care pharmacy outside of institutional settings. This course, specially designed […]

  • BCPSQC – Northwest Patient Safety Conference 2022

    online

    The Northwest Patient Safety Conference is the only event of its kind in the Western US, uniting healthcare professionals, providers, patients, families, and caregivers from all care settings for networking and engaging with industry thought leaders and others invested in improving the patient experience. We’re excited to collaborate once again with the Washington Patient Safety Coalition […]

  • McGill International Palliative Care Congress

    MONTREAL CONVENTION CENTRE 1001 Place Jean-Paul-Riopelle, Montréal, QC, Canada

    After a four-year pandemic-induced hiatus, the 23rd edition of the McGill International Congress on Palliative Care will be held at the Palais des Congrès de Montréal, from October 18 to 21, 2022. The McGill International Congress offers it all: from galvanizing plenary speakers to in-depth workshops and seminars covering all aspects of end-of-life care, from […]

  • UBC Division of Palliative Care CME Day 2022

    online

    Audience: family physicians, palliative care physicians, emergency 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! The theme for this year is "Back to the Future: Essentials of Modern Palliative Medicine." We hope you can join us! Up to […]

  • Canadian Children’s Grief Awareness Symposium

    online

    Please join us for a unique and exciting educational event that will help to build your capacity to support grieving children, youth and families in the communities you serve. The Canadian Alliance for Grieving Children & Youth (CAGCY) along with three hosting organizations (Lighthouse for Grieving Children, Lumara Grief & Bereavement Care Society, and Seasons […]

  • Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association – 2022 Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Learning Institute

    online

    The 2022 CHPCA Learning Institute is going virtual. Due to the unpredictability of COVID-19 and public health measures, the CHPCA will be presenting the 2022 Learning Institute online. The Learning Institute will continue to offer the same fantastic caliber of content, including five unique education streams – offering the most innovative and timely teachings in […]

  • National Caregiver Day: Supporting Caregivers Throughout Their Caring Journey

    online

    In honour of National Caregiver Day, annually on the first Tuesday in April), Carers Canada is offering webinars on supporting caregivers throughout their caring journey: Valuing the Voice of Caregivers and Patients, Grief from the First Step and Conversations Through the Journey. (Registration for the sessions is complimentary). Panel Discussion 1: Valuing the Voice of Caregivers and […]

  • Quality Forum 2023

    Vancouver, BC Vancouver, BC, Canada

    The Quality Forum is our annual conference that brings together British Columbia’s health care community to share and discuss how to improve quality across the continuum of care. Quality Forum 2023 will be held on June 6 – 8 in Vancouver, BC. Cost TBA More information to come!

  • Palliative Care Education & Research Conference, Covenant Health Alberta

    online

    This year's theme is Personalized Palliative Care: Caring for People & Communities, Honouring people where they are at. This conference is a virtual event online, and registration is open through Covenant Health Alberta's event website. Ensuring that the needs and wishes of each person with a life-limiting illness and their family are understood.​ Learn about […]

  • Living with Grief: Adjusting to Life after Loss (in-person, Victoria BC)

    Victoria Hospice Community Support Centre 102-4450 Chatterton Way, Victoria, BC, Canada

    A one-time, interactive workshop covering the basics of grief and mourning, and ways to cope for those who are bereaved following the death of a loved one. This is an interactive workshop that encourages sharing from participants while learning about different ideas around grief and mourning. The workshop is free of charge. Visit the event […]

  • Journal Club: “The Future of Palliative Care? Overview of the Current Research on Artificial Intelligence in Palliative Care” (The Division of Palliative Care UBC 2023/2024 Educational Rounds)

    Journal Club with Dr. Tamara O'Shea: "The Future of Palliative Care? Overview of the Current Research on Artificial Intelligence in Palliative Care" The Division of Palliative is excited to present the 2023/2024 Educational Rounds schedule. Dr. Matthieu Hubert is the Educational Rounds Lead and reviews feedback from each rounds to develop and book in speakers […]

  • A Research to Practice Webinar: Building palliative care capacity by engaging generalist providers and patients and families

    online

    A Research to Practice Webinar Presenter: Dr. Hsien Seow, Professor, McMaster University; Canada Research Chair in Palliative Care and Health System Innovation. Dr. Seow will share results from his national randomized trial, called CAPACITI, which tested palliative care education in primary care teams. He will also share the lessons learned from the Waiting Room Revolution […]