Extending Life
Setting the Agenda for the Ethics of Aging, Death, and Immortality

CONFERENCE March 6-8, 2008
PRECONFERNCE INSTITUTES March 3-6, 2008
LOCATION The Grace Inn Conference Center, Phoenix, Arizona

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Continuing Medical Education Credit for Physicians
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the Christian Medical & Dental Associations (CMDA), and The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity. CMDA is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Christian Medical Association designates this educational activity for a maximum of 32.25 hours in category 1 credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award (11.25 hours for the conference only and 32.25 hours for the Institute which includes the Conference). Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

CE credit must be requested before the end of the conference March 8, 2008.

For Nurses
A Certificate of Attendance will be issued upon request to be used for continuing education and is available through Nurses Christian Fellowship for conference and/or institute attendance. Please sign up at the NCF booth during the conference.

CEU Credit
CEU units available through Trinity International University. 11.25 Contact Hours will be awarded for participation in the Conference and 32.25 Contact Hours for participation in the Conference and Institute.

ACADEMIC CREDIT
Hours can be credited toward degree programs at Trinity (relocation to Trinity not required) or can be transferred to other institutions. Academic credit cannot be applied for after the event. All courses will be held at the Grace Inn Conference Center, Phoenix, Arizona.

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Wrap-Around Conference Courses March 6-8, 2008
A Wrap-Around Conference Course can be taken in addition to an Institute. Graduate-level (2 or 3 semester hours) and undergraduate-level (3 semester hours) wrap-around courses provide an additional academic perspective on the conference. Dennis Hollinger PhD (graduate level) and Joyce Shelton PhD (undergraduate level) will lead the courses. Courses include additional class meetings in conjunction with the conference, but the bulk of the content will be the conference itself. Readings prior to the conference and a project following will be required.

Institute Courses: March 3-6, 2008
The Intensive or Advanced Institute can be taken for 3 or 4 semester hours of graduate credit or 3 hours of undergraduate credit. Course instructors are the Institute directors. Institutes involve assignments before and after the class time.

 

Conference Will Equip Participants to:

• Understand the clinical and social experience of aging, especially in the American context.

• Anticipate developments in the near future of healthcare, science, biotechnology, medical law, and the impact on humanity.

• Appreciate the medical, social and cultural context in which death is experienced.

• Prepare to address the current and future challenges of aging and the quest for immortality

• Identify the assumptions behind various strategies for immortality, including transhumanism.

• Learn ways that palliative care, hospice, and other modalities can reframe the crises associated with the experience of dying.

• Gain an awareness of national, state, and international developments in the legal status of assisted suicide and euthanasia.

• Develop effective strategies for facing the ethical, legal, and social implications of aging and the pursuit of immortality.