Undergraduate Medical Education in Palliative Care: Addressing New Challenges
APM Undergraduate Medical Education Special Interest Forum
Thursday 6 November 2025
Wheatley Room, The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE
Approved for 4 category 1 (external) CPD credits
Early Bird rates will close on Friday 3 October
Undergraduate Medical Students should email bookings@dovetail-ea.co.uk to enquire about the limited free registration places available for this event.
Call for Abstracts
This call has now closed. Authors have been advised the outcome of their submission.
The full Programme is now available.
Please note: some sessions may be subject to change following the assisted suicide debate.
Hourly Schedule
Programme
- 09:30 - 10:00
- Registration and refreshments
- 10:00 - 10:10
- Welcome, role of the SIF and overview of the day
- Dr Geoffrey Wells
- 10:10 - 10:50
- Keynote Address: Developing palliative medicine within new medical school curricula
- Professor Juliet Wright, Founding Dean of Medicine, University of Surrey
- 10:50 - 11:40
- Keynote Address: Physician Assisted Suicide – Considerations and Challenges for Undergraduate Education
- Dr Annabel Price, Consultant in Liaison Psychiatry.
- 11:40 - 11:55
- Morning Refreshments
- 11:55 - 12:00
- Oral Abstract Presentations: Sharing Research and Best Practice
- 12:00 - 12:10
- Creating a new undergraduate medicine palliative care module fit for tomorrow's doctors
- Dr Jean Potter
- 12:10 - 12:20
- Game based learning and gamification in undergraduate palliative medicine education - is it playful pedagogy or just fun and games?
- Dr Dylan Harris
- 12:20 - 12:30
- Dying to escape - an educational, palliative care themed, escape room challenge for medical students
- Dr Georgia Housden
- 12:30 - 12:40
- Assessing the utility of virtual reality in teaching medical students to break bad news
- Dr Samuel Rose & Dr Yasmin Alagaratnum
- 12:40 - 12:50
- Using virtual reality simulation to provide medical students with experiential exposure to caring for patients in the last days of life
- Dr Sarah Frearson
- 12:50 - 13:00
- Reimagining Palliative Care Education: Opportunities for Interprofessional Teaching
- Lauryn Taylor
- 13:00 - 13:30
- Round Table discussion of oral abstract presentations
- 13:30 - 14:10
- Lunch
- 14:10 - 14:15
- Introduction to: Project Groups
- 14:15 - 14:45
- Round Table Discussions (1)
- • Curricula in New Medical Schools - Dr Clare Finnegan • Assisted suicide debate and the Undergraduate Curricula - Dr Annabel Price • Simulation - Drs Robert Brodrick & Geoffrey Wells • Research and Measurement in Palliative Care education - Dr Stephen Mason • Gamification in Palliative Medicine education - Drs Georgia Housden & Dylan Harris • MLA and Question Writing - Professor Stephen Barclay
- 14:45 - 15:15
- Refreshments and Round Table Discussions (2)
- 15:15 - 15:45
- Plenary Discussion: SIF Workstreams
- Professor John Ellershaw
- 15:45 - 16:00
- Concluding comments and evaluation
- Dr Jean Potter & Dr Geoffrey Wells
