A conference for all those whose work and health centers on improving health and quality of life, including:

• All health care providers
• Community health organization staff and volunteers
• Crisis, addiction and abuse service personnel
• Ethics committee members
• Family and Social Service personnel
• Health administrators, managers and executives
• Health policy analysts and decision-makers
• Lawyers
• Pastoral and spiritual care service providers
• Patient representatives
• Public health workers and planners

What Issues Will This Conference Explore? 

In both our personal and professional lives, we often face situations of moral distress that threaten to ‘pull us apart’ or that seem to involve compromising our integrity. This conference will explore the difficult question of what it means to maintain integrity or consistency between our values and our actions, both as individuals and as organizations.

To view the conference agenda, please click here.

Why Is This Conference Being Held?

Living in a fast-paced world, with the stresses of modern society, often has us rushing from one activity to the next. In the field of health and health care, a variety of such factors conspire to make it easy to live or carry out our duties on 'auto-pilot' - without the opportunity to reflect on what our values are, and what it would mean to live in concert with those values. Tensions that may arise in our personal and professional lives may receive short shrift. This conference is being held to enable participants to set aside one day devoted to thinking about the question: What does it mean to live with integrity?

How Will This Conference Help Me? 

The conference will assist you in addressing issues such as:

• What does integrity mean?
• How does the integrity of my daily work impact my professional life?
• How can I tell when my values are or are not in concert with my actions?
• In what types of situations should I be particularly concerned with questions of integrity?
• What are some telltale signs that my integrity is being compromised?
• What kinds of things might I do when my integrity is being compromised?
• What practical steps can individuals and organizations take to help those around them live with integrity?
• Does integrity always involve standing up or speaking out for what you believe to be right, even when the consequences could be grave?

What’s The Use Of Talking About Ethics?

A conference that addresses ethical issues is, by it’s very nature, markedly different from one that teaches technical skills or provides cutting-edge scientific information - but no less important. This conference is designed to help us think about the complex moral issues we face in our lives in clear, systematic and thoughtful ways.

Who Should Come?

The discussion at this conference will be relevant to all those whose work or personal interests focus on promoting health and well-being. This includes a wide variety of individuals, from health care professionals to administrators, board members, managers and team leaders in the health and social services settings. Patients and health care beneficiaries are also encouraged to attend.

Will I Receive Continuing Medical Education Credits?

Certified members of the Canadian College of Health Service Executives (CCHSE) participating in this program will earn 2.5 Category II MOC credits towards the maintenance of certification requirement for their CHE or Fellowship designation.

This education event is approved as an Accredited Group Learning Activity under Section 1 of the Framework of Continuing Professional Development options for the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Information from the Royal College of Family Physicians is forthcoming.

What is the Cost of Registration?

• Early Registration (registration form and payment received BEFORE 5:00 pm on April 1) - $125.00
• Regular Registration (registration form and payment received AFTER 5:00 pm on April 1) - $150.00
  
• Special Reduced Rate (registration form and payment received BEFORE 5:00 pm April 1) - $60.00 (This special reduced rate is available to those for whom the regular and early registration fees would normally pose a barrier to attending the conference, by reason of economic or other circumstances).

If you are mailing your registration form and payment, please take into consideration the extra time it will take to reach our office as this may affect the category you select.

Agenda and Registration

Download the full conference brochure (pdf format) form here, fill out the registration form, and mail or fax it back to the Provincial Health Ethics Network.