The course aims to develop participants’ theoretical and practical knowledge in delivering competent, evidence-informed holistic palliative care in any healthcare setting by enhancing their role as part of a multidisciplinary team.

This two-day professional workshop will provide participants with a unique opportunity to learn and experience a novel and clinically robust Family Dignity Intervention (FDI) for cultivating existential wholeness among terminally-ill patients and their families facing the end of life.

Access to supportive care, palliative care and end-of-life care are essential for persons living with an advance illness. In this course, community health and social care professionals will be offered a foundational overview of psychosocial issues faced by their clients living across illness trajectories in the community, and consider their roles in providing holistic support.

What do we know about death and dying? Has it been medicalized? This 4-hour workshop will give participants an understanding of the nursing, psychosocial, spiritual needs of patients at the end of life.

This 4.5-hour workshop is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of the nursing, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of patients experiencing pain at the end of life. This includes understanding what pain is and identifying different types of pain. Participants will learn how to conduct pain assessment, using pain assessment tools and strategies. Pain management strategies, both pharmacological and non-pharmacological, will also be introduced.

Healthcare workers of today are subjected to unprecedented levels of stress and are at greater risk of burnout than at any other time in the past. Learning how to manage burnout and build resilience is core to the mental and emotional well-being of healthcare workers.

The two-day course gives an overview and summary of the field of thanatology. It explores the social, cultural, psychological, legal, ethical, and spiritual issues raised by illness, dying, death and bereavement.

This two-day workshop provides participants with a unique opportunity to obtain a holistic understand of burnout, well as a true appreciation of self-care via an immerse experience with Mindful-Compassion Art Therapy (MCAT).

The interactive workshop aims to develop participants’ theoretical and practical knowledge in delivering competent, evidence-informed palliative care in advanced dementia.

As our population ages, more people will be developing chronic medical conditions which will progress and eventually lead to death. The challenges of managing a patient with advanced non-cancer conditions can be fairly different from caring for someone who is suffering from advanced cancer. The 2-day course will highlight these challenges and focus on palliative care approaches to help healthcare professionals manage non-cancer end-of-life care better.

The programme involves i) 2-weeks of self-directed online study, where participants will be given access to online materials to study at their own pace, and ii) a 0.5-day virtual classroom session.