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2025 Annual Educational Conference

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You are invited to submit an abstract for a 45-minute break-out session at the 2025 Catholic Medical Association Annual Educational Conference.

The conference will be held September 4-6, 2025, in Kansas City, MO at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown, 200 West 12th Street, Kansas City, MO 64105.

The theme of the 2025 Annual Education Conference is, “Tradition, Ever Ancient and Ever New.”

The goal is to recapture some of the ways medicine had been practiced in earlier times with its focus on the inpidual and a greater reliance on the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Presentations will examine different models for practicing medicine, educating medical students and caring for dying patients. Human flourishing, and the timely topic of artificial intelligence (AI) and medicine will also be covered. The conference culminates with the Banquet keynote address delivered by Sister Deirdre Byrne, M.D., POSC, retired US Army Colonel and General Surgeon.

Over the past century, medicine has evolved technologically with the development of precise diagnostic testing, innovative surgical techniques, lifesaving medications and efficient ways of recording, storing and sharing information.

These advancements have provided tremendous benefits to humanity by decreasing mortality and extending life expectancy as well as improving our quality of life and our ability to live with chronic medical problems.

Unfortunately, as we have progressed, we have also regressed in many ways. We have forgotten who we are and why we are here. In many of our best medical institutions, God has been either suppressed or outright expelled. Contraception, IVF, abortion, euthanasia and modern mainstream approaches to gender dysphoria are the most blatant examples of what happens when God is removed from the practice of medicine. Sadly, health care delivery today in many ways resembles a factory assembly line or a conveyer belt. Inpidualized patient care has been sacrificed for efficiency and cost minimization.

Proposals related to the conference theme receive preference, but presentations on all subjects will receive consideration.

Please know that it is expected that those who are presenting breakout sessions will be responsible for their own registration fees for the conference, as well as travel and hotel expenses. 

The Submission Deadline is January 10, 2025.

Anthony S. Oliva, M.D.
2025 Conference Chair

 

CMA AEC 2025– CME OBJECTIVES
  1. Describe how each person with diverse backgrounds, resources and experiences requires an individualized treatment plan and approaches to promote human flourishing.
  2. Clarify and defend your primary professional principles regarding patient care.
  3. Compare and contrast older and more recent approaches of medical education and identify benefits and disadvantages of each.
  4. Identify how AI might serve physicians and patients and improve care and outcomes.
  5. Describe 3 ways individualized patient care has been sacrificed for efficiency and cost minimization.
  6. Describe 3 ways you might restore more individualized care in your practice of medicine.
  7. Identify some of the hazards of artificial intelligence.
  8.  List 4 or 5  keys to flourishing as a physician.