What used to be known as the American Clinicians Academy on Medical Aid in Dying is now the Academy of Aid-in-Dying Medicine. The new website is live here. AADM is unquestionably, the largest, most informative, most innovative national organization focused on the clinical aspects of aid-in-dying care.
The Academy of Aid-in-Dying Medicine is the foremost source of evidence-based best-practice information and teaching for clinicians working with patients considering or completing medical aid in dying. While other aid-in-dying organizations are involved in advocacy and legislative lobbying for new states to pass aid-in-dying laws, the Academy is the leading national organization that advances, teaches, and supports clinicians to provide expert, attentive care in the states where the practice is now legal.
23% of the U.S. population now has access to medical aid in dying, so it is a significant part of terminal patients’ end-of-life options. This growth has motivated clinicians to seek knowledge about best clinical practices. The Academy is the major resource for these dedicated clinicians: doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains, clinical ethicists, pharmacists, hospices and more. It teaches and informs about 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.
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