APM Juniors Conference 2025 – Imagining Tomorrow
This year’s conference will focus on …… Imagining Tomorrow
For any information please email conference.apmj@gmail.com
Fees
- Medical student £10
- APM member £20
- Non-member junior doctor £30
This event will be recorded
The only session that will not be available for watch back is Room 1: Talking with children about death and dying – supporting parents to have impossible conversations
Abstract Competition
Abstract submissions are invited from Medical Students and Resident Doctors on original research in Palliative Medicine related to the conference theme. Selected abstracts will be asked to give an oral presentation at the conference. Please submit a 250 word abstract to conference.apmj@gmail.com by noon, Monday 1st of September, to be considered.
APMJ Conference Abstract Comp Poster
Medical Student Essay Competition
Theme: ‘Creating the future of palliative care’
This 750-word essay can be about any new or developing challenges affecting the field of palliative care, how new technologies might impact palliative care in the future, or anything that broadly fits into the theme. Though it’s called an essay, you can also be creative in your approach. The winner of the essay competition will be announced at the conference. Please send all submissions to conference.apmj@gmail.com by noon, Monday 1st of September to be considered.
APMJ Conference Essay Comp Poster
Hourly Schedule
2025 Conference: Imagining Tomorrow
- 09:00 - 09:05
- Welcome and Introductions
- Dr Suzanne Kite
- 09:05 - 10:10
- Breakout 1
- Room 1: Talking with children about death and dying – supporting parents to have impossible conversations [This session will not be recorded]
- Dr Sadie Thomas-Unsworth
- Room 2: The future of the hospice sector
- Catherine Hodge
- Room 3: Future care planning
- Dr Aoife Gleeson
- 10:10 - 10:20
- Refreshment Break
- 10:20 - 11:25
- Breakout 2
- Room 4: An introduction to chaplaincy in a changing and diverse modern society
- Gary Windon
- Room 5: Advance Care Planning for people with communication difficulties
- Sophie Whitehead
- Room 6: Progressive neurological conditions in the Hospice sector
- Julia Russell
- 11:25 - 12:30
- Breakout 3
- Room 7: Palliative Care – a prison perspective
- Deanna Mezen
- Room 8: Imagining a sustainable tomorrow: greener palliative care
- Dr Kate Crossland
- 12:30 - 13:00
- Lunch
- 13:00 - 13:15
- Abstract Competition Winner
- 13:15 - 13:30
- Practice in prolonged disorder of consciousness
- Dr Mary Miller
- 13:30 - 13:45
- What is policy research anyway?
- Professor Fliss Murtagh
- 13:45 - 14:00
- Understanding how people with multiple long-term health conditions use and experience healthcare in the last year of their life'
- Dr Sarah Bowers
- 14:00 - 14:15
- To be confirmed
- 14:15 - 15:15
- Keynote Speaker - Artificial Intelligence and design insights in palliative care: opportunities and challenges
- Dr Amara Nwosu
- 15:15 - 15:30
- Refreshment break
- 15:30 - 16:00
- Alternative Pathway to Palliative Medicine
- Dr Seb Van der Linden
- 16:00 - 16:30
- Applying to palliative care
- Dr Sophia Ellis
- 16:30
- Closing remarks
