Undergraduate Medical Education in Palliative Care: Addressing New Challenges
Fully Booked
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
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
