Pre Conference Courses
Before the official start of the conference, attendees will have the opportunity to take part in four engaging courses designed to enhance their clinical skills and confidence in emergency and urgent care settings.
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📅 Date: Wednesday, May 27 – Thursday, May 28
⏰ Time: 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. (Both days)
📍 Location: University Hospital of Northern British Columbia (UHNBC)💰 Fees :
Physician: $1950
NP: $900
Nurse: $750
Pre-Hospital Provider: $400
📝 Registration: ubccpd.eventsair.com/carecourse2026/reg
🩺 Workshop Overview:
The CARE Course (Comprehensive Approach to Rural Emergencies) is a traveling rural program for physicians, nurses, and pre-hospital providers. This two-day program provides interactive hands-on learning in a fun, warm and supportive inter-professional environment. Medical, trauma, obstetric and paediatric emergency management are featured. Appropriate to the realities of rural practice, this small group program supports the teamwork and skills enhancement needed to provide rural emergency care.
📢 More Information: theCAREcourse.ca
📧 Email: info@theCAREcourse.ca🎓 Accreditation:
52.75 Mainpro+ credits
21 hours for RNs & NPs
14 EMALB credits for pre-hospital care providers
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📅 Date: Thursday, May 28
⏰ Time: 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
📍 Location: Prince George Conference Centre💰 Fees: (plus GST)
Staff MD: $2550
RN/Other: $1950
Resident: $1845
📝 Registration: https://casted.ca/schedule
🩺 Workshop Overview:
CASTED: Emergency is a high-yield, practice-changing, award-winning orthopedics course that will significantly improve your approach to ED orthopedics — this course is ruthlessly clinical (and fun)! The course is 3-days and split into two parts: 2-days are online (1 day synchronous; the other asynchronous at your own pace); then a 3rd hands-on day in Prince George. This course will be valuable to anyone who manages ED patients with acute ortho injuries.📢 More Information: CASTED: Emergency
🎓 Accreditation:
This program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been approved for up to 37.5 Mainpro+® certified credits.
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📅 Date: Thursday, May 28
⏰ Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
📍 Location: Prince George Conference Centre💰 Fee: Free
📝 Registration: Register using the RHC Registration Form
🩺 Workshop Overview:
The Nawh Whu’nus’en – We See in Two Worlds: Trauma sensitive practices for collectively healing in relationship curriculum is rooted in Two-Eyed seeing methodology, weaving together Indigenous ways of knowing with Western trauma theory and neuroscience, including Dr. Michael Yellow Bird’s work on neurodecolonization and Dr. Stephen Porges’ work on polyvagal theory. The curriculum is built on understanding of the immense power of experiential Indigenous land-based healing practices for maintaining a state of wellness. This workshop is an in-person adaptation of Levels 1 and 2 of the curriculum that have been offered online by UBC CPD, in partnership with RCCbc since 2023.📢 More Information: This workshop is reserved for those engaged in clinical care, including physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, residents, and students.
🎓 Accreditation:
7.0 Mainpro+ / MOC Section 1