Subject: 🦠Bug Day is the perfect CPD event for the upcoming cold and flu season!

Continuing Professional Development

Medicine and Life Saving Newsletter
October 17, 2025

29th Annual Bug Day

October 23, 2025
Time: 0800 - 1615
Location: Digitally through the University of Manitoba
Earn up to 7 Mainpro+ credits | Earn up to 7 MOC (Section 1) credit hours

Earn your CME credits from anywhere and for free! What are you waiting for?

Cold and Flu season is here, and there's no better learning opportunity than Bug Day 2025 to stay on top of the latest in the prevention and control of communicable diseases. Nationally and internationally recognized experts will present timely topics in infectious diseases and public health at Manitoba’s largest healthcare education event.

Objectives

By attending this program, the attendee will be able to:

  • State the names of the key pathogens that have been clinically and socially relevant over the past 29 years.

  • State how the determinants of health influence a person’s risk for infection.

  • State how to modify risk factors for the acquisition of infection.

Full agenda and more details on the registration page!

Opioid Agonist Therapy 101: Introduction to Clinical Practice

November 13 & 14, 2025
Time: 0800 - 1630
Location: Thompson Clinic Conference Room
50 Selkirk Avenue Thompson, MB, Canada, R8N 0M7

The award-winning CPD event is coming to Thompson, MB!

The Opioid Agonist Therapy 101 workshop will arm you with new knowledge and skills around opioid addiction and the resources available to support this vulnerable patient population; it is a prerequisite training requirement in order to prescribe or dispense methadone and buprenorphine/naloxone in Manitoba.

Don't miss your chance for a fantastic event in Thompson!

Fridays at the University: Cardiology Practice Essentials
November 28, 2025
Time: 820 - 1320
Location: Digitally through the University of Manitoba
Earn up to 4.5 Mainpro+ credits | Earn up to 4.5 MOC (Section 1) credit hours

Cardiology Practice Essentials.

Our next Fridays at the University session is fast approaching and it's right on the beat!

This event will help you strengthen clinical decision making around arrhythmias, cardiac imaging, and key diagnostics such as ECGs and biomarkers. You will also explore how to manage cardiovascular complications in pregnancy and apply the latest advances in heart failure and hypertension, with attention to the needs of diverse and special populations.

Walk away with updated knowledge and practical tools to enhance your everyday practice.

Life Saving Courses

ACoRN

October 27, 2025
Time: 0800 - 1630
Location: UM Bannatyne: Brodie Centre: Room-000, Clinical Learning & Simulation Facility

The Acute Care of at-Risk Newborns Program (ACoRN) is a Canadian Program designed to teach neonatal stabilization, support the multidisciplinary team, and identify and care for babies who become unwell or are at risk of becoming unwell in the first few hours or days after birth and, where necessary, preparation for transport to a referral facility

ACoRN introduces knowledge and skills sequentially, using a case-based approach.  It is designed to be useful regardless of a condition’s complexity or how frequently a practitioner is called upon to manage specific conditions.

Note: Participants must complete the Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) course before taking ACoRN

Registration

All prices listed include all taxes and fees


Course Cost (including ACoRN Online Exam and ACoRN Primary Survey; Sequences and Laminates): $395

ATLS is a vital educational program created by the American College of Surgeons, designed to equip medical professionals with essential skills for managing trauma patients. This program offers a systematic approach to trauma care, emphasizing early assessment, resuscitation, stabilization, and definitive treatment.

Registration
All prices listed include all taxes and fees


Registration: $1,800

Upcoming Dates


November 7 & 9, 2025
January 16 & 17, 2026
January 16 & 18, 2026

See all dates for our ATLS courses and register today!

Pediatric Advanced Life Support

Our PALS Provider course will help you to develop individual skills – as a member of a healthcare team – in simulated real-life situations that mirror your work life in which you’ll need to recognize and respond to cardiopulmonary arrests or other cardiovascular emergencies involving pediatric patients.

Prerequisites

Current Heart & Stroke Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider

PALS Precourse Self-Assessment Certificate

Registration
All prices listed include all taxes and fees

Registration: $585

Upcoming Dates

October 23 & 24, 2025
November 20 & 21, 2025

See all dates for PALS and register today!

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