CLE Online

Welcome and Land Acknowledgement

Dr. Kathleen Ross — President, Doctors of BC, Vancouver
Allan P. Seckel, QC — CEO, Doctors of BC, Vancouver

Regulation of the Medical and Legal Professions: Trends in Professional Regulation

• regulation of professionals
• registration, standards, investigation, and discipline
• recent challenges
• future outlook

Graeme Keirstead — Chief Legal Counsel, College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC, Vancouver
Natasha Dookie — Chief Legal Officer, Law Society of BC, Vancouver

Meta-Cognition and Better Decision-Making

• cognitive errors and failed diagnosis
• assumptions that lead to traps
• meeting the challenge of decision-making under adverse conditions
• fixing the problems

Dr. Pat Croskerry — Director, Critical Thinking Program, Dalhousie University Medical School, Halifax

Break

RoadSafetyBC Updates

• driver medical fitness in BC
  • human rights and legal framework
  • next steps with driver medical fitness
• drugs and driving
  • an update on the drugs and driving initiative (new 90 day ADPs)
  • alcohol versus drugs: challenges and opportunities for detecting impairment at roadside

Darrion Campbell — Director, Driver Fitness and Client Services, RoadSafetyBC, Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General, Victoria

Concussion and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Best Practices and Return to Work, School and Sport Environments

• return to work
  • become aware of common symptoms following MTBI that may impact return to work
  • become aware of long term consequences of MTBI that may affect employability
  • be introduced to strategies for dealing with short and long term occupational issues
• return to learn/play
  • become aware of some of the challenges surrounding youth concussions
  • be introduced to strategies for supporting return to school and learning
  • be introduced to strategies to promote safe return to sport participation

Dr. Shelina Babul — Director, CHIRPP, BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver
Dr. David A. Brooks — Physician and Surgeon, Gabriola

Networking Lunch (provided)

Medico-Legal Reports: Bridging Medicine and Law

• what lawyers want doctors to know
• What doctors want lawyers to know
• best practices and making it work for everyone—especially the patient/client

Dr. Hugh Anton — Clinical Professor, UBC Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,  Vancouver
Manjit K. Grewal — Alexander Holburn Beaudin & Lang LLP, Vancouver

Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID): The Patient's Journey

• patient experiences with health care decision-making
• patient experiences with legal decision-making
• overcoming common challenges

Dr. Melanie L. Brown — Medical Director, Fraser Health Renal Program, New Westminster
Melissa Perry — Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Vancouver

Break

Cannabis in Canada: A Medicine and Law Update

• the legal framework for medical cannabis—a short history
• the new legal landscape of edibles, topicals, and extracts
• the current state of medical cannabis
• the future outlook for medical cannabis

John W. Conroy, QC — Conroy & Company, Abbottsford
Dr. Pippa Hawley — Medical Director, Provincial Pain & Symptom Management/Palliative Care Program, BC Cancer, Vancouver

Closing Remarks

Dr. Kathleen Ross — President, Doctors of BC, Vancouver
Allan P. Seckel, QC — CEO, Doctors of BC, Vancouver