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