Making the End Count
Inaugural End of Life Conference
Psychosocial, Legal, Cultural & Spiritual Aspects of Dying
October 9, 2015
Hilton University of Florida Conference Center, Gainesville, FL
Making the End Count is Suwannee River AHEC’s Inaugural End of Life professional conference targeted to all health care providers and community members to engage in timely and cogent discussions regarding end of life care. The national author and speaker, Tim Quill, MD from the University of Rochester in NY, will provide a keynote address as well as moderate and serve on panels. He is a palliative care specialist and is the Director of the Center for Ethics, Humanities, and Palliative Care and a Board certified palliative care consultant.
Check out the registration site here: http://stellared.learningexpressce.com/index.cfm?fa=view&eventID=4210
Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Physician Assistants, Pharmacists, Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors, Hospice professionals, and other allied health professionals.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this activity participants should be able to:
- Define what a medical partnership should look like, and to consider how to apply partnership principles in one’s own practice
- Discuss and demonstrate guidelines for managing and interaction with patients and families as they move through struggles with dementia
- Formulate strategies to create meaningful conversations with patients and families as illness progresses
- Consider how the meaning of medical treatment changes when disease-directed treatment is no longer effective, and to illustrate how to potentially move forward in these circumstances by considering real cases
- Recognize how critical non-abandonment is as a principle in modern medicine with all of its fragmentation and sub-specialization, and to consider how it might play out in actual patient scenarios
