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! 

March 25, 2025 Provincial Trauma Grand Rounds: Burns 101 for the Emergency Department
Location: online from Halifax, NS
Audience: Emergency medicine physicians (both CFPC and RCPSC), residents, registered nurses, paramedics. 
Contact: Jenna Faulkner | (902) 229-3579
March 25, 2025 EMSJ Grand Rounds: "Pediatric Trauma Pearls"; “I Want To (be) Break Free! Splinting and Casting in the ED: A Few Pearls from the Team”
Location: Saint John, NB
Audience: Practicing physicians and residents working in Emergency Departments in the province of New Brunswick
Contact: Melanie Kelly | (506) 649-2635
March 25-28, 2025 Welcome Collaborative - Physician Orientation Program
Location: College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia, Bedford, NS
Audience: All physicians trained outside of Canada who are entering practice in Nova Scotia, regardless of specialty or location of practice in the province
Contact: George Mbara | (902) 403-4722
March 26, 2025 Trauma Rounds: CALM in Chaos: The art of trauma team leadership
Location: online from Saint John, NB
Audience: Any healthcare professional involved with trauma care. Emergency medicine physicians, Physicians working in the Emergency Department, ICU and Critical care physicians, residents, nurses and allied health care providers.
Contact: Emily Gallant | (506) 648-8040
April 3, 2025 Seniors Mental Health Web Education Series: Bipolar
Location: online from Halifax, NS
Audience: Geriatric Physician’s, Family Physicians, Hospitalists, social workers, nurses (LPN, RN), residents, any allied health staff working with Geriatric patients
Contact: Elle Waychesko | (902) 473-7799
April 8, 2025 Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University Monthly Case-Based Specialty Seminars for Community Pediatrics: Precocious or Delayed Puberty: When to Worry
Location: online from Halifax, NS
Audience: Pediatricians andother clinicians interested in pediatric issues
Contact: Andras Kocsis | (902) 219-2323
April 9, 2025

To Humanely Move Forward, Take a Step Back: 3 Essential Questions to Rehabilitate Our Unwell Medical Culture
Location: Delta Hotel, Charlottetown, PEI
Audience: Applicable to all physicians, regardless of specialty
Contact: Karen Pyra | (902) 499-1980

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April 9, 2025 Greater Fredericton Area General Medical Staff Grand Rounds: Words Matter: Professionalism in the Educational Context
Location: online, Fredericton, NB
Audience: physicians and medical learners (Students and residents) that are recognized as encompassing the Greater Fredericton Area Medical Staff
Contact: Dr. Katelyn Stymiest
April 10, 2025 Dalhousie Family Medicine Grand Rounds Series 2025: A Thousand Papercuts: Understanding and Addressing Changing Administrative Workload in Primary Care
Location: online from Halifax, NS
Audience: Family doctors, family medicine residents
Contact: Dr. Lynn Bussey | (902) 233-9585
April 11, 2025 Developing Professionalism in our Learners (PBSG-ED module)
Location: Valley Regional Hospital, Kentville, NS
Audience: Family Medicine Preceptors
Contact: Sarah Scholl | (902) 473-8047
April 24, 2025

Neuromodulation for pain: What is it & who to refer?
Location: Bethune Building, VG Hospital, Halifax, NS
Audience: Pain physicians, family physicians, neurosurgical residents and fellows, nurse practitioners, physician researchers
Contact: Elizabeth Scott | (902) 473-6850

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April 25-26, 2025 50th Annual Dalhousie Spring Refresher - Emergency Medicine
Location: Halifax, NS or Virtually
Please see Draft Agenda Here!
Register Here!
Contact: CPD@dal.ca
April 30, 2025 EMSJ Journal Club
Location: Saint John, NB
Audience: Staff physicians and residents working in emergency departments in NB
Contact: Melanie Kelly | (506) 649-2635
May 1, 2025 Seniors Mental Health Web Education Series: Alcohol Disorder
Location: online from Halifax, NS
Audience: Geriatric Physician’s, Family Physicians, Hospitalists, social workers, nurses (LPN, RN), residents, any allied health staff working with Geriatric patients
Contact: Elle Waychesko | (902) 473-7799
May 8, 2025 Dalhousie Family Medicine Grand Rounds Series 2025: Top 10 Family Medicine Articles to Change Your Practice
Location: online from Halifax, NS
Audience: Family doctors, family medicine residents
Contact: Dr. Lynn Bussey | (902) 233-9585
May 13, 2025 Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University Monthly Case-Based Specialty Seminars for Community Pediatrics: Update on adolescent contraception
Location: online from Halifax, NS
Audience: Pediatricians andother clinicians interested in pediatric issues
Contact: Andras Kocsis | (902) 219-2323
May 15-16, 2025 13th Annual Thomas and Alice Morgans Fear Memorial Conference - Stillness in Chaos: Health Leadership for Complex Times
Location: Halifax Convention Centre
Draft Schedule
Register Here!
Contact: CPD@dal.ca
May 28, 2025 EMSJ Journal Club
Location: Saint John, NB
Audience: Staff physicians and residents working in emergency departments in NB
Contact: Melanie Kelly | (506) 649-2635
May 28, 2025 Gastric Ultrasound for Women’s and Obstetric Anesthesia - Workshop
Location: 5th Floor HI Site, Anesthesia Library, Halifax, NS
Audience: Anestheisiologists providing periooperative and peripartum care to patients of the IWK Health Center.
Contact: Vicki Christian 
June 5, 2025 Seniors Mental Health Web Education Series: Health Promotion for Older Adults
Location: online from Halifax, NS
Audience: Geriatric Physician’s, Family Physicians, Hospitalists, social workers, nurses (LPN, RN), residents, any allied health staff working with Geriatric patients
Contact: Elle Waychesko | (902) 473-7799
June 10, 2025 Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University Monthly Case-Based Specialty Seminars for Community Pediatrics: Approach to Sickle cell Disease
Location: online from Halifax, NS
Audience: Pediatricians andother clinicians interested in pediatric issues
Contact: Andras Kocsis | (902) 219-2323
June 17-20, 2025 Welcome Collaborative - Physician Orientation Program
Location: College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia, Bedford, NS
Audience: All physicians trained outside of Canada who are entering practice in Nova Scotia, regardless of specialty or location of practice in the province
Contact: George Mbara | (902) 403-4722
September 9-12, 2025 Welcome Collaborative - Physician Orientation Program
Location: College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia, Bedford, NS
Audience: All physicians trained outside of Canada who are entering practice in Nova Scotia, regardless of specialty or location of practice in the province
Contact: George Mbara | (902) 403-4722
November 26-28, 2025 Welcome Collaborative - Physician Orientation Program
Location: College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia, Bedford, NS
Audience: All physicians trained outside of Canada who are entering practice in Nova Scotia, regardless of specialty or location of practice in the province
Contact: George Mbara | (902) 403-4722