Conferences & Events

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Alongside various sponsoring departments within Dalhousie Medical School, we provide two, large annual conferences. These intensive programs, varying in length from one to three days, are designed to provide you with the most up-to-date information possible.

No matter what your professional focus is, you’ll find something to enhance your skills and further your knowledge. From our cardiovascular conference to hands-on surgical workshops and everything in between, our attendance numbers prove that they’re a worthwhile investment of your time.

If you would like to receive weekly reminders of our accredited events for physicians, or have your attendance at our events tracked, please complete and submit the Contact Data Form. Be sure to check "Yes" to "I agree to receive email announcements" to get your name on our blast-list! 

September 27, 2023 Interprofessional Trauma Education Webinars: Trauma in New Brunswick – Thinking Upstream
Location: Saint John, NB
Audience: Trauma Care Providers across the Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI - physicians and surgeons (emergency, family, icu, thoracics, orthopedic, general surgeons), registered nurses,  paramedics, pharmacists.
Contact: Emily Gallant | (506) 648-7806
September 27, 2023 Nova Scotia Health Quality & Patient Safety Rounds: Frailty and safety: need routine hospital care be so hazardous to our largest most vulnerable constituency?
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: physicians and health care providers who work at or are engaged with Nova Scotia Health
Contact: Jessica Long | (902) 266-9003
September 29, 2023 Refugee Health Network: Parasitology Mini-Sessions: Overview of Strongyloides and Schistosoma infections in the Refugee Context
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: physicians working/interested in refugee health
Contact: Ryan Singh | (902) 830-4273
October 3, 2023 EMSJ Grand Rounds: Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Subdural Hematoma
Location: online from Saint John, NB
Audience: Physicians working emergency departments in NB (specificlaly Saint John area)
Contact: Dr. Mackenzie Howatt | (506) 648-6092
October 5-6, 2023 The Resus Course
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: Emergency physicians
Contact: Dr. James Gould | (902) 222-5344
October 11, 2023 Saint John Family Medicine Education Rounds: Quality Improvement
Location: online from Saint John, NB
Audience: Family physicians in Saint John region, particularly those involved in teaching in the Faculty of Family Medicine
Contact: Dr. Lisa Turner | (506) 608-3476
October 11, 2023 Greater Fredericton Area General Medical Staff Grand Rounds: Infectious Diseases Updates: Changing standard practices to meet the evidence
Location: Fredericton, NB
Audience: physicians encompassing the Greater Fredericton Area General Medical Staff 
Contact: Dr. Amber Swan | (506) 452-5026
October 11, 2023 Nova Scotia Health Quality & Patient Safety Rounds: Frailty and safety: Bariatric surgery: is access to care still an issue in this new era of weight loss drugs?
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: physicians and health care providers who work at or are engaged with Nova Scotia Health
Contact: Jessica Long | (902) 266-9003
October 12, 2023 Dalhousie Family Medicine Grand Rounds Series 2023: 3 year Family Medicine Residency for 2027: What is Dalhousie Family Medicine’s plan and how do you fit in to it?
Location: online from Halifax, NS
Audience: Family doctors and family medicine residents
Contact: Dr. Lynn Bussey| (902) 233-9585
October 13, 2023

Care By Design Long Term Care Conference
Location: Halifax Tower Hotel and Conference Centre 
Audience: Physicians, NPs, Nurses, Pharmacists, Dieticians and other LTC team members.
Contact: Jane Harris

Register here! | Draft Agenda

Prospectus | Reservation Form

October 13, 2023 Inaugural Dr. Fred Barton Visiting Scholar & Lecture in Ethics in Medicine
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: family physicians, specialists, nurses and other allied health professions
Contact: Dr. Christy Simpson | (902) 471-8134
October 18, 2023 The Planet in Crisis: Leadership Education to Forge a Path Forward (TISLEP)
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: All healthcare professionals, physicians, leaders and educators in healthcare
Contact: Dr. Constance LeBlanc | (902) 830-0747
October 24, 2023 Interprofessional Simulation Program for Health Care Providers in the Emergency Department
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists and clerks who treat pediatric patients in the Emergency Department setting
Contact: Leigh Thibideau
October 27, 2023 Refugee Health Network: Optimizing Dermatologic Care in Refugee Patients 
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: physicians working/interested in refugee health
Contact: Ryan Singh | (902) 830-4273
October 28, 2023 Le 6e symposium du cancer de Moncton/The 6th Moncton Cancer Symposium
Location: Moncton, NB
Audience: Physicians involved in the care of cancer patients
Contact: Dr. Linda LeBlanc | (506) 862-4698
October 28-29, 2023

Dalhousie Academic Detailing 2023 Annual Conference
Location: White Point, NS
Audience: primary care physicians, pharmacisits, and nurse practitioners
Contact: Jane Harris

Register here! | View agenda here

October 28-29, 2023

Atlantic Radiology Conference
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: Radiologists, Dalhousie radiology residents and fellows, NS Health diagnostic imaging technologists
Contact: Krista Whitehouse | (902) 473-7943

Register here!

October 30, 2023 Dr. Tarunendu Ghose Visiting Scholar in Global Health
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: Family physicians and specialists, nurses, allied health, health administrators, health policy makers, medical learners (students and residents)
Contact: Elise Sammons | (902) 802-9490
November 1, 2023 Nova Scotia Health Quality & Patient Safety Rounds: Addressing Functional Somatic Disorders in NS Health
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: physicians and health care providers who work at or are engaged with Nova Scotia Health
Contact: Jessica Long | (902) 266-9003
November 2, 2023 Warner Education Lecture
Location: Fredericton, NB
Audience: Physicians encompassing the Greater Fredericton Area General Medical Staff
Contact: Dr. Amber Swan | (506) 452-5026
November 2-4, 2023 What is new in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology?  
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: anyone in Atlantic Canada who is associated with care for a pediatric patient with a hematologic/oncologic diagnosis
Contact: Carol Digout | (902) 470-7429
November 3, 2023 Blood Matters 2023
Location: online from Halifax, NS
Audience: transfusion medicine physicians, hematopathologists, registered nurses, and laboratory technologists
Contact: Patricia Belisle | (902) 487-0516
November 3, 2023 Atlantic Canadian Deep Brain Stimulation Rounds
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: neurologists and neurosurgeons
Contact: Liz Scott
November 16, 2023

97th Annual Dalhousie Fall Refresher: Thursday Afternoon Sessions
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: family physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and hospitalists
Contact: Jane Harris

Register here! | Draft Agenda

November 16, 2023 Dalhousie Family Medicine Grand Rounds Series 2023: How compassionate is your workplace? Advancing grief literacy with and for Health Professionals.
Location: online from Halifax, NS
Audience: Family doctors and family medicine residents
Contact: Dr. Lynn Bussey| (902) 233-9585
November 17, 2023 Medicine Matters 2023
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: all faculty members of the Department of Medicine (general internists and sub-specialists of internal medicine), and senior residents and nurse practitioners in all medicine sub-specialties
Contact: Hiyam Gedalia | (902) 579-2349
November 17 & 18, 2023

97th Annual Dalhousie Fall Refresher
Location: Online and in Halifax, NS
Audience: family physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and hospitalists
Contact: Jane Harris

Register here! | Draft Agenda

Prospectus | Reservation Form

November 24, 2023

2023 Atlantic Pain Conference
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: Family medicine preceptors
Contact: Jessica Howe | (902) 473-6428

Register here!

December 15, 2023 Atlantic Canadian Deep Brain Stimulation Rounds
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: neurologists and neurosurgeons
Contact: Liz Scott
January 26, 2024 Atlantic Canadian Deep Brain Stimulation Rounds
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: neurologists and neurosurgeons
Contact: Liz Scott
January 31, 2024 Interprofessional Simulation Program for Health Care Providers in the Emergency Department
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists and clerks who treat pediatric patients in the Emergency Department setting
Contact: Leigh Thibideau
March 6, 2024 Interprofessional Simulation Program for Health Care Providers in the Emergency Department
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists and clerks who treat pediatric patients in the Emergency Department setting
Contact: Leigh Thibideau
March 7, 2024 Atlantic Canadian Deep Brain Stimulation Rounds
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: neurologists and neurosurgeons
Contact: Liz Scott
April 3, 2024 Interprofessional Simulation Program for Health Care Providers in the Emergency Department
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists and clerks who treat pediatric patients in the Emergency Department setting
Contact: Leigh Thibideau
April 19, 2024 Atlantic Canadian Deep Brain Stimulation Rounds
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: neurologists and neurosurgeons
Contact: Liz Scott
May 31, 2024 Atlantic Canadian Deep Brain Stimulation Rounds
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: neurologists and neurosurgeons
Contact: Liz Scott
June 19, 2024 Interprofessional Simulation Program for Health Care Providers in the Emergency Department
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists and clerks who treat pediatric patients in the Emergency Department setting
Contact: Leigh Thibideau
July 12, 2024 Atlantic Canadian Deep Brain Stimulation Rounds
Location: Halifax, NS
Audience: neurologists and neurosurgeons
Contact: Liz Scott