Your Most Important Prescription: The Art of End-of-Life Care

Overview

In this keynote address, Dr. BJ Miller challenges clinicians to reclaim end-of-life care as a core clinical competency, offering practical tools for goals-of-care conversations that center patient values, quality of life, and family dynamics. He also turns the lens inward, exploring how clinicians' own relationships with mortality shape the care they provide, and how that self-awareness can become a source of clinical strength.

Learning Objectives

• Reframe end-of-life care as a core clinical competency by examining personal and systemic assumptions about death and dying
• Apply human-centered communication tools for goals-of-care conversations that center patient values, quality of life, and family dynamics
• Recognize how a clinician's own attitudes toward suffering and death shape, and can improve, the quality of end-of-life care they provide