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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.

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Upcoming conferences/programs/events

Response to COVID-19: 

    Please note that MOST of these events may be cancelled. Please check with the contact person for further information.

    Also, all in-person CPD activites are cancelled as per our Continiung Professional Development main page  
March - July 2020

COVID-19 Educational Interventions and Updates – webinar series
Location: online from Dartmouth, NS
Audience:  All Nova Scotia physicians
Contact: Barbara Johnson | 902-481-4915

NOTE: PEI and NB doctors are welcome to join the webinars. However, questions will be restricted to NS physicians only due to the volume of questions and the numbers of participants.

NEXT SESSIONS: 

This will be updated as information comes to us. For a quicker response please check the DoctorsNS website.

Please note: this is an ongoing series that may extend past the dates listed.
April 12 - December 31, 2020 Remote SIM Programme for COVID-19 in Direct Patient Care [5 module program]
1. SIM leader development
2. Patient offloading in the ED
3. PPE donning and doffing
4. Airway management
5. COVID-19 approaches for Primary Care
Location:  online from Halifax to the Maritime provinces
Audience:  All healthcare professionals dealing with the COIVD-19 pandemic
Contact: Susan Love   
May 30, 2020 - May 30, 2021

Identification and Referral of Potential Organ and Tissue Donors Modules (5 modules)

  • Introduction to Identification and Referral of Potential Organ and Tissue Donors
  • Tips for Approaching the Family
  •  Transplant “Myth-busters”
  • Organ Donation as part of Goals of Care
  • FAQ and Special Situations

Location: Online from Halifax; registration required
Audience:  primary care physicians, emergency care physicians, ICU physicians,hospitalists, those working with critically ill patients
Contact: Susan Love
May 30, 2020 - May 30, 2021

Pediatric Emergency Care Modules (5 modules)

  • Diabetic ketoacidosis
  • Gastroenteritis
  • Croup
  • Sepsis
  • Anaphylaxis

Location: Online from Halifax; registration required
Audience:  family physicians, pediatric emergency physicians, pediatricians, nurse practitioners, paramedics, nurses
Contact: Susan Love
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

Annual conferences

Fear Memorial Conference

  • Audience: medical faculty and students, residents, physicians and medical staff
  • Goal: to focus on an important theme in medical education (the theme changes with each conference)
  • Full Name:  Annual Thomas Fear and Alice Morgans Fear Memorial Conference
  • Fear Conference website

MERIS

  • Audience: medical, dental and health care communities
  • Goal: to present research and innovation relevant to  medical, interprofessional and health professions education
  • Webpage Link
  • Full title: MERIS: (Medical Education Research and Innovation Showcase)

Family Medicine Refresher

  • Audience: family physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, hospitalists
  • Goal: to enhance knowledge, attitudes, and skills in family medicine, informed by the best available evidence

Therapeutics Refresher

  • Audience: primary care physicians, pharmacists, nurse practitioners
  • Goal: to enhance knowledge, attitudes, and skills in the area of therapeutics in family medicine, informed by the best available evidence

Emergency Medicine Refresher

  • Audience: emergency physicians, pharmacists, paramedics, emergency nurses, nurse practitioners
  • Goal: to enhance knowledge, attitudes, and skills for the management of emergencies, informed by the best evidence available  

Medicine Matters

  • Audience: physicians providing broad-based care in internal medicine, including those covering on-call, acute presentations, and hospital-based care
  • Goal: to enhance knowledge, attitudes, and skills in the area of general internal medicine, informed by the best available medicine

 

 

* 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.