Attending the 2011 AAHPM &HPNA Annual Assembly in Vancouver February 16-19, 2011 was a wonderful experience for me. It would have been impossible without the support from AAHPM for physicians like me who are working in developing countries. I got the opportunity learn new clinical and scientific knowledge of palliative care by attending different sessions on different days including the preconference workshops. It was a good platform to know and to develop personal relationships with palliative care workers from Canada, USA and other parts of the world. I am already benefitting from this new relationship to improve palliative care in Nepal.
I am going to conduct a one-day Palliative Care Workshop for fellows of different departments March 25, 2011. I got the chance to meet Steven M. Radwany during Annual Assembly who is helping to conduct the palliative care workshop by supplying 60 copies of the Primer of Palliative Care 5th Edition with the help of different friends from AAHPM. I met Fraser Black & Robin Love from INCTR who are also helping me. I have already received “INCTR Palliative Care Handbook” from INCTR Head Office, Brussels, Belgium for the participants of this workshop. Frank Ferris from San Diego has shown different opportunities to improve my personal career and to develop palliative care in Nepal. The educational flash drive provided by Laura Davis is very useful to conduct my daily palliative care activities.
Besides I could see the beauty and development of Vancouver and feel the warm hospitality of the Canadian people.
Bishnudutta Paudel, MD