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2024-04-16 - Medical Grand Rounds: Made in Canada: Lessons Learned from Medically Assisted Dying in Canada

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4/16/2024 - Medical Grand Rounds: Made in Canada: Lessons Learned from Medically Assisted Dying in Canada

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INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

Faculty, residents, fellows, and community physicians in General Internal Medicine and subspecialties.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

Increase knowledge about the global movement towards assisted dying.
Improve clinical skills for responding to patients' request for assisted dying
Discuss ambivalence as a valuable position in the assisted dying debate.

Suggested Additional Reading & Joint Accreditation Statement - Note: This Accreditation Statement Supersedes All Other Statements:

Suggested Additional Reading:

M. Li, S. Watt, M. Escaf, M. Gardam, A. Heesters, G. O’Leary, G. Rodin. From Legislation to Implementation: A Hospital-Based Program of Medical Assistance in Dying. New Eng J Med., 376:2082-2088, 2017
T. Christie, M. Li. Medically Assisted Dying in Canada and Unjust Social Conditions: A response to Wiebe and Mullin. J. Med. Ethics https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2023-109327
https://cca-reports.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-State-of-Knowledge-on-Medical-Assistance-in-Dying-Where-a-Mental-Disorder-is-the-Sole-Underlying-Medical-Condition.pdf

Joint Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physician (CME)

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Authors:

Madeline Li, MD, PhD — Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Head of Psychosocial Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
No planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.

No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.