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UPCOMING LEAP COURSES:

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OPEN LECTURE

The Elizabeth J. Latimer Annual Lecture in Palliative Care

October 19, 2023 from 4:30-6:00pm

Facilitator: Dr. Christian Ntizimira

Topic: Embracing the End: Ubuntu Philosophy and African Perspectives on End of Life Care

VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM

https://tinyurl.com/LLatimer2023

Meeting ID: 964 8995 3571 Password: palcare

 

The Elizabeth J. Latimer Annual Lecture in Palliative Care

February 23, 2023 from 4:30-6:00pm

Facilitator: Dr. Anna Voeuk

Topic: Palliative Care in Humanitarian Crises: From Then and There to Here and Now

 

March 3, 2022 from 4:30-6:00pm

Facilitator: Dr. Amy Tan

Topic: Making the Invisible Visible:  Dismantling Racism & Oppression in Palliative Care


All Welcome.

virtual via ZOOM

 

Given the Division’s priority on spreading the palliative care approach across care settings and professions, the Division has a vibrant continuing education (continuing professional development) enterprise. The committee for CPD is responsible for planning, piloting, delivering, and evaluating different methods of continuing education across the HNHB HCCSS and McMaster catchment area to support the enhancement of expertise in palliative care. The initiatives are interprofessional and team-based in scope.

The strategic plan of CPD aligns with the 4 thematic streams identified as the Research Strategic Plan:

  • Palliative approach to care – across all settings
  • Advancing public health palliative care
  • Palliative care education including interprofessional education
  • Vulnerable populations/cultural diversity

Due to the pandemic, effort was focused on delivering our events virtually. This was made possible by the collaborative support of Pallium Canada.

Highlights and Activities:

The signature events promoted by the CPD committee include:

  • Innovations in Palliative Care is an annual day of interactive lectures and experiential workshops that are designed to bring experienced clinicians and researchers together to advance knowledge, skills, and capacity in the provision of palliative care in an interprofessional setting. During the pandemic, this was developed as a virtual conference in collaboration with Pallium Canada.
  • McMaster’s 3 Days in Palliative Care is an annual interprofessional course in the essentials of clinical Palliative Care for family physicians and other clinicians who care for people with serious progressive, life threatening illnesses. Since the goal is to offer a more in-depth content, the expectation is that participants will have already completed the Pallium LEAP (Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative and End of Life Care) course or its equivalent prior to attending this course.
  • During the pandemic, the Division collaborated with Pallium Canada to move the LEAP In-Depth to an online format, McMaster 3-Days and LEAP In-Depth Combined Course that was delivered over 6-half day sessions.
  • Palliative Care Grand Rounds is a speaker series designed to deliver palliative care topics of interest that addresses aspects of emerging or current scholarly thinking in education, research and clinical care. Quarterly rounds are conducted via Zoom to optimize and enable attendance from our distributed sites.
  • Pallium Canada’s LEAP courses are planned and offered and coordinated in the geographical sectors of the Division of Palliative Care’s catchment areas. Click here for courses.

Ongoing Support of the Community of Practice and the Community at large:

  • Interprofessional Journal Club is a monthly journal club established to provide palliative clinicians and learners with a venue to keep abreast of new information in palliative medicine and explore evidence-based practices relevant to palliative care.
  • Kitchener-Waterloo-Wellington Physician Educational Initiative: Palliative Medicine physicians and the palliative care teams who work with them are active in planning educational events within their community.
  • “100% Certainty Project: Death Something to Talk About” is an innovative collaborative community reading initiative built on the concepts of a public health approach and community development model for end-of-life care that hopes to increase public awareness about death and dying and lessen society’s discomfort about facing death.

 Kathleen Baba Willison, RN, MSc, CHPCN(c); Assistant Clinical Professor, School of Nursing; Associate Member, Division of Palliative Care; Continuing Education Lead

Committee Membership consists of the chairs of various subcommittees responsible for the planning and delivery of specific continuing education activities in the year.

Current Members:

Kathleen Baba Willison, RN (Chair)

Dr. Jose Pereira

Dr. Nadia Plach

Sarah Romeril

Dr. Sheila Russek

Elizabeth Dougherty

Dr. Alan Taniguchi

Dr. Abby Maybee