MAID: The ongoing impact on service providers

Description:

Helping clients at the end of their life can bring up complex emotions. Join us for a session with Dr. Jeff Myers, Professor and the current Bresver Family Chair in End-of-Life Care and Medical Assistance in Dying at University of Toronto’s Department of Family and Community Medicine within the Temerty Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Myers has been practicing palliative medicine for the past 25 years and will guide a discussion covering the following points:

• Understand the process of MAID
• Navigating potential spiritual conflict
• Processing the emotional impact

Presenters:

Dr. Jeff Myers

Audience:
This is a virtual session for people in Ontario working in the fields of mental health; HIV; harm reduction; housing; hospice.