2025 MedConference of the American Association of Medicine and the Person

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THE ART AND SCIENCE OF CARE

What does it mean to care? Is there still room in medicine for genuine, personal attention to the patient? Rising administrative burdens and rapidly advancing technologies threaten to turn clinicians into either bureaucrats or technicians, eroding the encounters, the responsibility, and the creativity at the heart of medicine. What would it look like to restore care to the center?

We propose that care is both an art and a science. It begins in presence. Nothing can replace the human art of accompanying another through suffering: seeing, staying with, and receiving the mystery of their being. Yet medical care is also a science, integrating precise knowledge, practiced skills, and powerful tools to heal the body and serve the whole person.

Perhaps art and science are not opposing forces or tasks to be divided across roles. Perhaps their tension is not a problem to solve, but a unity to be lived. What is at stake is not only how we treat disease, but how we understand the patient and ourselves.

How do we hold together the power to intervene with the need to simply be with? Can our tools serve, rather than replace, human encounters? What can sustain the work of care? And how do we form medical professionals who can both treat illness and meet the questions it brings: Why am I suffering? Who will stay with me? What is the meaning of this?

The 2025 MedConference explores these questions through the lenses of art, technology, education, and experience. Join us as we hear from medical professionals from around the world who practice the art and science of care.

OCTOBER 3–5, 2025
Courtyard by Marriott Montreal Downtown
380, René-Lévesque Blvd West, Montreal, QC H2Z 0A6

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Accreditation:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Saint Louis University School of Medicine and The American Association of Medicine and the Person.  Saint Louis University School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

Credit Designation:
Saint Louis University designates this (activity format) for a maximum of 9.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.  Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Saint Louis University School of Medicine will provide Other learner certificates (APPs, nurses, and other types of learners). The certificate will state that the activity was designated for 9.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.  Follow your board's requirements for reciprocal CE credits.

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.