Undergraduate Medical Education in Palliative Care: Addressing New Challenges
APM Undergraduate Medical Education Special Interest Forum
Thursday November 6th 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 26 September
Call for Abstracts
Successful submitters will be offered a 10 minute oral presentation (7 speaking and 3 for Q&A).
The topic needs to be related to undergraduate palliative medicine education, including novel teaching methods, simulation, research outcomes, challenges and solutions to placement provision etc.
This call for abstracts will close at 5.00pm GMT on Friday 5 September.
Click here to submit an Abstract
Programme 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 Coffee
- 10:00 - 10:15
- Welcome and overview of the day
- 10:15 - 10:55
- Developing palliative medicine within new medical school curricula
- Professor Juliet Wright, Founding Dean of Medicine, University of Surrey
- 10:55 - 11:35
- Physician Assisted Suicide – Considerations and Challenges for Undergraduate Education
- Dr Annabel Price, Consultant in Liaison Psychiatry.
- 11:35 - 11:55
- Refreshment break
- 11:55 - 12:00
- Intro: Sharing research and best practice
- 12:00 - 13:00
- Six presentations
- 13:00 - 13:30
- Round Table discussion of presentations
- 13:30 - 14:10
- Lunch
- 14:10 - 14:15
- Introduce project groups
- 14:15 - 14:45
- APM SIF Project Group Updates and Round Table Discussions
- • Curricula in New Medical Schools • Assisted suicide debate and the Undergraduate Curricula • Simulation • Research and Measurement in Palliative Care education • E ELCA • MLA and Question Writing
- 14:45 - 15:15
- Tea and themed Round Table Discussions
- 15:15 - 15:45
- Plenary discussion of SIF workstreams
- 15:45 - 16:00
- Concluding comments and evaluation
