24 Feb 2025 09:30 - 16:30 Kirklands Medical Education Centre Free
An Intensive one-day interactive workshop for International Medical Graduates.
Participants will work in a small peer group to address communication challenges from their own clinical practice. Focus will be on communication around end-of-life care, including DNACPR/Treatment Escalation Plans and breaking bad news.
Applicants can apply for either the morning or the afternoon session.
Tutors are all NHS Clinicians
This workshop is open to NHS Lanarkshire staff only
Participants will work together in a small coaching group with two senior tutors. The course content is highly interactive with interview demonstrations and participant role-play. Each group will set its agenda at the start of the workshop and consider strategies for handling communication challenges from each participant’s own clinical practice.
Participants from any specialty are very welcome to apply.
This clinical communication workshop offers participants the opportunity to:
Kirklands Medical Education Centre
Date: 24 Feb 2025
Time: 09:30 - 16:30
Dr Kerry McWilliams is a consultant in Palliative Medicine in NHS Lanarkshire. She graduated from Glasgow University in 2005 and was appointed as a consultant in 2015. During her specialty training in the West of Scotland she thoroughly enjoyed particpating in an EC4H course herself and was delighted to undergo tutor training in 2018. Currently acting as lead tutor, she enjoys the challenge and new learning experience that comes with each course. Her interests include Anticipatory care planning and promoting informed decision making.
Mr Alistair Brown is a consultant general surgeon with interests in surgical critical care and anticipatory care planning. He regularly teaches on critical care courses (a key component of which is communication skills) both in the UK and abroad. He has undergone training with Effective Communication for Health in Edinburgh and trained as a tutor in November 2016. He has taught communication to a variety of postgraduate groups as part of the critical care teaching. GMC number 3542039