Conferences
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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 are a physician and wish to start receiving weekly reminders of all our accredited events, please fill in this form and get your name on our blast-list!
Upcoming conferences/programs/events
| February 21, 2020 | PGME PD/PA Education Day 2020 Location: Halifax, NS Audience: Program directors and administrators in PGME Contact: Jennifer Acuna | 902-494-3117 |
| March 3, 2020 | Seniors Mental Health Web Education Series: Driving Location: Halifax, NS Audience: Health professionals working with elderly patients with mental health issues Contact: Nicole DeYoung | 902-473-7799 |
| March 11, 2020 | Centre for Genomics Enhanced Medicine Seminar Series Location: Halifax, NS Audience: Doctors interested in hereditary disease Contact: Johane Robitaille | 902-470-8632 |
| March 27-28, 2020 | 9th Annual Thomas Fear and Alice Morgans Fear Memorial Conference: Collaboractive Primary Healthcare in the New Age Location: Halifax Convention Centre Audience: medical students, residents, physicians/medical faculty and staff Contact: Linda MacNutt |
| March 28, 2020 | Comprehensive Basic Ultrasound Guided Peripheral Nerve Block Workshop Location: Halifax, NS Audience: Anesthesiologists, emergency medicine physicians and residents Contact: Robin Lake | 902473-2331 |
| April 2, 2020 | Family Medicine Faculty Development Roadshow: Medical Error -- Our culture, Our Reactions, Our Learners Location: Halifax, NS Audience: Family medicine preceptors Contact: Alethea Lacas | 902-473-4747 |
| April 4, 2020 | Family Medicine Faculty Development Roadshow: Medical Error -- Our culture, Our Reactions, Our Learners Location: Yarmouth, NS Audience: Family medicine preceptors Contact: Alethea Lacas | 902-473-4747 |
| April 6, 2020 | Seniors Mental Health Web Education Series: BPSD Location: Halifax, NS Audience: Health professionals working with elderly patients with mental health issues Contact: Nicole DeYoung | 902-473-7799 |
| April 8, 2020 | 2020 Department of Anesthesia Research Day Location: Halifax, NS Audience: Those with an interest in anesthesia research Contact: Jilllian Banfield | 902-473-4337 |
| April 8, 2020 | Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Research Day 2020 Location: Halifax, NS Audience: Ophthalmologists, residents, nurses researchers, medical students and those with an interest in the field Contact: Andrea Titterness | 902 473-3751 |
| April 8, 2020 | Department of Surgery Research Day 2020 Audience: Dept. of Surgery faculty, residents, medical students, invited guests Location: Halifax, NS Contact: Elaine Marsh | 902-473-4615 |
| April 11 - 12, 2020 | Vital Anesthesia Simulation Training (VAST) course Location: Halifax, NS Audience: Anesthesia providers and perioperative health-care providers in low-resource/remote settings Contact: Lisa Nardecchia | 902-473-5428 |
| April 16, 2020 | Department of Medicine Research Day Location: Halifax, NS Audience: Physicians, PhD members, undergraduate medical students Contact: Heather Fraser | 902-473-6696 |
| April 16-17, 2020 | Integrated Care for Gender Dysphoric, Gender Non-binary and Transgender Children |
| April 16, 2020 | Family Medicine Faculty Development Roadshow: Medical Error -- Our culture, Our Reactions, Our Learners Location: Saint John, NB Audience: Family medicine preceptors Contact: Alethea Lacas | 902-473-4747 |
| April 22, 2020 | Centre for Genomics Enhanced Medicine Seminar Series Location: Halifax, NS Audience: Doctors interested in hereditary disease Contact: Johane Robitaille | 902-470-8632 |
| April 23-24, 2020 | 5th New Brunswick Internal Medicine Update Location: Moncton, NB Audience: Family physicians, internal medicine specialists, medical students, residents, nurse practitioners Contact: Veronique Legault | 506-870-2812 |
| April 23 - 25, 2020 | 46th Annual Dalhousie Spring Refresher (Emergency Medicine Topics) Location: Halifax Convention Centre Audience: emergency physicians, pharmacists, paramedics, emergency nurses, nurse practitioners Contact: Jane Harris Registration | Agenda |
| April 28, 2020 | Anesthesia Academic Promotion Workshop Location: Halifax, NS Audience: Anesthesiologists Contact: Cyndi Lushman | 902-473-4344 |
| May 5, 2020 | Seniors Mental Health Web Education Series: Substance Use/CCSMH Guidelines Location: Halifax, NS Audience: Health professionals working with elderly patients with mental health issues Contact: Nicole DeYoung | 902-473-7799 |
| May 13, 2020 | Centre for Genomics Enhanced Medicine Seminar Series Location: Halifax, NS Audience: Doctors interested in hereditary disease Contact: Johane Robitaille | 902-470-8632 |
| May 25, 2020 | 5-minute CBT: Behaviour Activitation to Improve Health Outcomes Using Fountain of Health Tools -- Introductory session Note: this is a weekly 4-session program online - please contact Ms. DeYoung for full information) |
| June 2, 2020 | Seniors Mental Health Web Education Series: Psychosis in the Elderly Location: Halifax, NS Audience: Health professionals working with elderly patients with mental health issues Contact: Nicole DeYoung | 902-473-7799 |
| June 5-6, 2020 | 21st Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Care Conference Location: Halifax, NS Contact: Gillian Reid | 902-494-2173 Support Package |
| June 10, 2020 | Centre for Genomics Enhanced Medicine Seminar Series Location: Halifax, NS Audience: Doctors interested in hereditary disease Contact: Johane Robitaille | 902-470-8632 |
| June 16 - 20, 2020 | 74th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons Location: Quebec, PQ Audience: Plastic surgeons/residents/fellows and medical students Contact: Karyn Wagner | 514-843-5415 |
| June 19-20, 2020 | 24th Annual Atlantic Canada Oncology Group (ACOG)/CAGPO Location: Halifax, NS Audience: Medical and radiation oncologists, other health professionals involved in oncology Contact: Dianne Smith | 709-364-3771 |
| September 8, 2020 | Seniors Mental Health Web Education Series: Sexually Inappropriate Behaviour in LTC Location: Halifax, NS Audience: Health professionals working with elderly patients with mental health issues Contact: Nicole DeYoung | 902-473-7799 |
| October 6, 2020 | Seniors Mental Health Web Education Series: Cannabis Location: Halifax, NS Audience: Health professionals working with elderly patients with mental health issues Contact: Nicole DeYoung | 902-473-7799 |
| November 3, 2020 | Seniors Mental Health Web Education Series: Depression Location: Halifax, NS Audience: Health professionals working with elderly patients with mental health issues Contact: Nicole DeYoung | 902-473-7799 |
| December 1, 2020 | Seniors Mental Health Web Education Series: Medically Unexplained Symptoms Location: Halifax, NS Audience: Health professionals working with elderly patients with mental health issues Contact: Nicole DeYoung | 902-473-7799 |
* Dalhousie Academic Detailing Service is currently detailing with the topic Hypertension: High Risk, Pregnancy and Children. Visits take about 30 minutes and are eligible for 2 Mainpro Cert+ credits with the College of Family Physicians of Canada. If you have not been contacted and would like a detailing visit, or would like further information about the Service, please email kelly.mackinnon@dal.ca.