- Date: June 16–18, 2025
- Time: Varies each day. View the agenda for details.
- Delivery: In-person
- Location: Waterfront Events & Conference Centre, Hamilton, ON
Target Audience
Health Care Professionals, including physicians, nurses, spiritual care providers, social workers and other disciplines who:
- Provide a palliative approach to care within various settings: primary care, long-term care, acute care, home care, and hospice.
- Completion or plan to complete the Pallium LEAP (Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative and End-of-Life Care) program is encouraged but not mandatory.
Overall Learning Objectives
By attending this 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.
Accreditation Statements
The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Office at McMaster University is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Continuing Medical Education (CACME) to provide College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) Mainpro+ and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) study credits for Continuing Medical Education.
This activity meets the certification of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified for up to 15.5 Mainpro+ Certified Activity credits.
This program is approved as an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the MOC Program of the RCPSC. A maximum of 15.5 MOC Section 1 hours has been approved. Through an agreement between the RCPSC and the American Medical Association (AMA), physicians may convert Royal College MOC credits to AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Further information can be found https://edhub.ama-assn.org/
Each attendee should only claim the hours they attended.