National Clinicians Conference on Medical Aid in Dying

The first National Clinicians Conference on Medical Aid in Dying will be in February in Oakland, California.

A few practitioners most deeply involved in medical aid in dying have fielded an increasing number of questions and concerns from other providers urgently requesting practical information. And while there have been many gatherings to discuss medical aid in dying in policy and social terms, there has been little opportunity for clinicians to learn of the evolving bedside practices. 


Doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains, clinical ethicists, pharmacists, hospices and more have been providing and managing this care without formal training or information sharing. They are craving knowledge of and training in standards of care and best practices—everything from prognoses to pharmacology, from the role of hospice teams to evaluations of decision-making capacity, or what “self-administration” means in the real world. In short, there is now a significant need and demand for a conference for those at the bedside