The Changing Landscape of Worldwide Palliative Care Education

Meeting the post-Covid and climate crisis challenges. An invitation to join Palliative Care Works on October 14th for their 10th annual conference at Sobell House, Oxford or on line.

Palliative Care Works’s (PCW) mission has been to offer PC training using the Palliative Care Toolkit to middle and low income countries over the last 15 years. The pandemic has led to a huge expansion of online training programmes.

Some of the questions the PCW conference will address include:

How does virtual training ensure understanding and delivery of PC?

How can practice be observed and sustainability be achieved?

Scroll down to see the full programme

All registrations will be by Eventbrite using the link Eventbrite – Registration

So please join us on Saturday October 14^th in person at Sobell House Oxford or on line.

For more information about PCW and  conference details:

www.palliativecareworks.org

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Programme 

Time	Topic	Speaker
09.45	PCW Annual General Meeting (open to all)	Chaired by Dr George Smerdon
10.15	Tea/Coffee break
10.30	Introduction	Dr George Smerdon, Chair of PCW
10.35	Keynote presentation:  The Changing Landscape of delivering Palliative Care Education	Professor Heather Richardson, Director of Education, Research & End of Life Policy, St Christopher’s Hospice, London
11.05-11.15	Questions
11.15	Feedback on fifteen years of PCW experience Results of the PCW survey.  Have we added value to our international partnerships?	Professor Fiona Rawlinson Dr Karilyn Collins Dr George Smerdon Dr Gillian Chowns
11.45	Tea/Coffee break
12.00	Postcards from the Edge of Life – home thoughts from abroad – short presentations from colleagues with experience of teaching internationally	Dr Dan Munday – Nepal (by Zoom recorded) Dr Stephen Miller and Heather Miller – Senegal (by Zoom recorded)
	Time for questions and answers
		Sue Mumford – Ethiopia (in person) Dr Mhoira Leng – Uganda (by Zoom recorded) Marje Niblock and Sharon Deeming – Rwanda (in person)
	Time for questions and answers
13.15	Conference ends on Zoom
13.15-14.15	Lunch
14.15	Presentations/interviews with students from the multi-professional course at St Christopher’s Hospice, London
	Short presentation	Dr Paul Myers, Lesotho Starlight Hospice Board
14.45	Which way forward?  Adapting to new horizons?	Small group discussions
15.30	Tea break
15.45	Round table discussion
16.15	Closing remarks	Dr George Smerdon and Dr Michael Minton
16.30	Conference ends