Join us for the 2024 MedConference of the American Association of Medicine and the Person!
CREATIVE CARE:
MAKING SPACE FOR THE UNEXPECTED
OCTOBER 4–6, 2024
Courtyard by Marriott Montreal Downtown
380, René-Lévesque Blvd West , Montreal, QC H2Z 0A6
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Join us for the 2024 MedConference of the American Association of Medicine and the Person!
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CME and non-CME credits will be provided by Saint Louis University.
The Scots Mission Hospital. The iron lung. Dr. Torrance, Sister Lee, patient Dow. 1940. Source: Library of Congress.
The core of the medical profession—the relationship between patient and caregiver—is too often reduced to a mechanical process. The very nature of medical care is at risk because the care of the patient is reduced to the cure of solely his or her physical being.
However, in front of sickness and death, patients are confronted with critical questions, regardless of the outcome of their particular situation: Will I be healed? What is the meaning of this illness? Why is there pain and death? Equally critical questions are faced by medical professionals: Why is it worthwhile to be a doctor or a nurse today? What is at the heart of being a truly human health care professional? What is it that a patient ultimately asks of a caregiver?
The MedConference proposes that the specific mission of the medical profession includes three main objectives: to cure the patient or at least to attempt to prevent further development of the disease, to alleviate the associated painful symptoms, especially in the advanced stages of illness, and to attend to all the sick person’s needs and expectations.
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The mission of AAMP is to promote an interdisciplinary dialogue among medical professionals – physicians, nurses, healthcare administrators, scientists, and students – with the aim of building a culture that affirms the dignity of the human person in medical practice.
AAMP carries out its mission first of all by taking on the planning and organizing of the annual MedConference, which started in 2009. MedConference aims to rebuild a healthcare system characterized by cutting-edge scientific and clinical research along with attention to the totality of the needs of the sick person. Our hope and goal is to restore a more human approach to each patient’s care to improve medical care. This conference is an educational opportunity for students and all healthcare professionals to re-awaken and refresh the ideals that originally led them to embrace the medical profession and, therefore, to deepen their humanity as they carry out their medical practice.
By means of panel discussions, conferences, lectures, seminars, and other scientific events, AAMP would like to provide a meeting place where healthcare professionals can come to dialogue and gain professional credits to rebuild person-oriented health care.
The American Association of Medicine and the Person (AAMP) was established on May 10, 2011, as a (501)(c)(3) not-for-profit public benefit corporation according to the laws of the State of New York.