This course complements the Oxford Advanced Pain and Symptom Management course. Speakers are invited from other specialties in medicine, bringing their expertise to update our medical knowledge and enhance the practice of palliative medicine.
For those of you who are wishing to refresh your Advanced Communication Skills Training, we have just the course!
| Location: Online | |
| Dates: 24 February – 30 March 2023 – 10 March – 21 April 2023 |
Back face-to-face at the Newcastle Civic Centre, on Thursday 8th and Friday 9th June 2023. We are developing the programme and will have more information in the autumn. Save the dates.
Back face-to-face at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, on Thursday 6th and Friday 7th July 2023. We are developing the programme and will have more information in the autumn. Save the dates.
Welcome to the virtual course! Over 400 people attended the Oxford Advanced courses in 2022 – the majority attended virtually. Your feedback tells us that the format is very valuable. We are developing the programme and will have more information soon.
Whatever our profession or job role we have a responsibility to offer spiritual care to our patients. But what does this mean in the current health climate? How can we do this to the best of our ability along with the other competing demands on our time?
As healthcare practitioners, we are faced with ethical dilemmas and difficult decisions on a daily basis. What to do when there is a conflict between what the patient wishes to do and what their family thinks should be done? How do we navigate a difference in opinion in our team about what a good death looks like? We must examine facts, balance alternatives and think through complex issues.