APMJ Conference: Kaleidoscope of care – innovation for everyone
Sunday 27 September 2026
Tickets
- APM Member Resident Doctor £20.00
- Non-Member Resident Doctor £30.00
- Medical Student £10.00
*programme subject to change
Breakout Rooms in Microsoft Teams – What You Need to Know
During this session, breakout rooms will be available, and you will be able to move freely between rooms as required.
To ensure you can access the breakout rooms successfully, please:
- Use the Microsoft Teams desktop app where possible (recommended)
- Ensure your Teams app is up to date
- Join the meeting using a university or work place email address – personal email accounts may be prohibited from moving to breakout rooms
- Avoid joining in a browser, if possible, as some Teams features may be limited
Thank you for checking your Teams setup before the session. This will help ensure you can move between breakout rooms smoothly and participate fully in the discussions.
CPD approved for 6 credits
Hourly Schedule
APMJ Programme
- 09:00 - 09:05
- Welcome and Introductions
- Dr Suzanne Kite
- 09:05 - 10:00
- Keynote Speaker: What it means to care? Followed by Q&A
- Rekha Vijayshankar
- 10:00 - 10:50
- Parallel Sessions 1: Expanding Access
- Room 1: Remembering Ourselves: Reflective Arts and Trauma-Informed Practice with Asylum Seekers at the Margins of Hospice Care
- Loren Seaman and Toby Kilby-Pollard
- Room 2: Homelessness and Palliative Care - delivery challenges and local systems innovation
- Sam Dorney-Smith
- Room 3: Measuring to improve: Why audit care at the end of life?
- Dr Mary Miller
- 10:50 - 11:00
- Break
- 11:00 - 11:50
- Parallel Sessions 2: Palliative Care Across Complex Settings
- Room 4: Teaching Palliative Care in Conflict Zones
- Dr Mhoira Leng
- Room 5: Inclusivity and equity in bereavement support - what does it mean and how do we get there?
- Dr Lucy Selman
- Room 6: Communicating Uncertainty in the Palliative Care Setting
- Dr Stephen Fenning
- 11:50 - 12:30
- Oral Presentations of selected abstracts followed by Q&A
- Facilitated by Dr Madeleine Fisher
- Enhancing Spiritual Literacy in End-of-Life Care: A Multi-Centre Service Audit of Best Practice of Religious Support and Post-Mortem Planning for Muslim Patients
- Fatemeh Seyedeh
- Expanding the Subcutaneous Route in Palliative Care: A Case Series of Non-Traditional Medicines for Symptom Management
- Dr Oliver Maynard
- Palliative Medicine Articulate: Broadening students understanding and confidence of key concepts through game-based learning
- Dr Charlotte Tunnell
- Understanding total pain: a scoping review and co-design of a patient and carer information leaflet
- Neil Sardesai
- 12:30 - 13:00
- Lunch – Virtual display of poster presentations
- 13:00 - 13:05
- Announcement of oral presentations/poster presentations and essay competition winners and runners up
- Facilitated by Dr Madeleine Fisher
- 13:05 - 13:55
- Plenary Session - Research in Palliative Medicine: Opportunities for Students and Trainees
- The Palliative Care Research Society, Dr Rachel Davies, and Dr Elisha De-Alker
- 13:55 - 14:45
- Parallel Sessions 3: Research Spotlight
- Room 7: Assessment and Management of Sialorrhea in Severe acquired brain injury
- Teresa Clark
- Room 8: Palliative Care on the margins: prisons, homelessness, substance misuse and trauma informed palliative care
- Dr Joy Rafferty
- Room 9: Thinking Ahead: Making Future Care Planning Accessible
- Dr Sally Boa
- 14:45 - 15:00
- Break
- 15:00 - 15:30
- Alternative pathways: SAS Careers in Palliative Medicine
- Dr Beth Goundry
- 15:30 - 16:00
- Career pathways to delivering supportive oncology
- Dr Daniel Monnery
- 16:00 - 16:45
- Applying for and working in the best specialty (Palliative Medicine)
- 16:45 - 17:00
- Closing Remarks
