THE ART AND SCIENCE OF CARE

OCTOBER 3–5, 2025

Montreal, Canada

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2025 THEME

What does it mean to care? Is there still room in medicine for genuine, personal attention to the patient? Rising administrative burdens and rapidly advancing technologies threaten to turn clinicians into either bureaucrats or technicians, eroding the encounters, the responsibility, and the creativity at the heart of medicine. What would it look like to restore care to the center?

We propose that care is both an art and a science. It begins in presence. Nothing can replace the human art of accompanying another through suffering: seeing, staying with, and receiving the mystery of their being. Yet medical care is also a science, integrating precise knowledge, practiced skills, and powerful tools to heal the body and serve the whole person.

Perhaps art and science are not opposing forces or tasks to be divided across roles. Perhaps their tension is not a problem to solve, but a unity to be lived. What is at stake is not only how we treat disease, but how we understand the patient and ourselves.

How do we hold together the power to intervene with the need to simply be with? Can our tools serve, rather than replace, human encounters? What can sustain the work of care? And how do we form medical professionals who can both treat illness and meet the questions it brings: Why am I suffering? Who will stay with me? What is the meaning of this?

The 2025 MedConference explores these questions through the lenses of art, technology, education, and experience. Join us as we hear from medical professionals from around the world who practice the art and science of care.

OCTOBER 3–5, 2025
Courtyard by Marriott Montreal Downtown
380, René-Lévesque Blvd West, Montreal, QC H2Z 0A6