The 5th annual advanced ethics in palliative and end of life care will take place this year. The programme will explore personhood and identity.
Chairs: Dr Mary Miller, Dr Idris Baker and Professor Derek Willis
Our 4th annual study day was a great success. Thank you for feedback in 2023:
Location: Virtual
Educational Credits: 5 CPD points (TBC)
+ Venue
Virtual
+ Speakers
Agreed speakers 2024:
1. Personhood: Dr Idris Baker, Consultant palliative medicine, Swansea, National Clinical Lead for EOLC, Wales.
2. Personhood, neonates and young children: Dr Helen Turnham, Consultant paediatric critical care, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Co-chair Clinical Ethics Advisory Group
3. Can hamsters make autonomous choices?: Dr Dita Wickins-Drazilova, Associate Professor in Biomedical Ethics & Law, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Birmingham
4. Personhood at the end of life: Professor Derek Willis, Consultant palliative medicine, Severn Hospice.
+ Course Programmes
2024 programme will be finalised shortly.
+ Course Aims
Aim:
The conference aims to build your knowledge and skills in the field of ethics and enable you to transfer your skills to clinical care
Objectives
By attending the conference you will:
• Have an opportunity to enjoy learning with your colleagues
• Develop your ability to apply knowledge gained to the management of clinical issues with ethical complexities in your practice
• Develop knowledge and skills to impact and support the decisions considered by your patients and those they love
• Be supported to bring your learning back to your organisation
• Have an opportunity to network with your peers
Key benefits include:
• A high standard of professional knowledge
• Excellent teaching
• Time for questions, discussion and building your networks
• Support to set educational goals for the coming year
• Superb value for money
• Experienced and enthusiastic administrative staff
• Focus on participants, not profit – any surplus ploughed back into education
