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Courses We Offer
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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.
Registration open. Please register by 26 Jan 2021.
Talk on Care at the End of Life aims to help participants to:
- Recognize and manage common symptoms of patients in their last hours
- Gain a basic understanding of psychosocial and spiritual needs of terminally ill patients
- Understand the needs and challenges of communication at the end-of-life
Registration open. Please register by 2 Feb 2021.
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.
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This 2-hour introductory talk aims to help participants to:
- Understand the principles of pain assessment and management in palliative care
- Be aware of commonly used opioids and its side effects in cancer pain management
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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.
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9 half-days course, with 1 day clinical attachment, aimed to increase participants’ confidence and competence in caring for patients with life-limiting conditions.
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The Wilson Centre of the University of Toronto, in collaboration with the National Healthcare Group (NHG) in Singapore, are proud to offer a four-day intensive programme in qualitative research for health professionals working in clinical academic contexts. Participants will have the opportunity to hone their research skills through guided seminars, skill-building workshops and exercises led by some of the world’s most respected health professions education researchers. The programme will be conducted in Singapore’s Novena Health City, an inspiring environment for learning and application.
This two-day professional virtual 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.
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The two-day workshop provides participants with a unique opportunity to obtain a holistic understanding of burnout as well as a true appreciation of self-care via an immersive experience with Mindful-Compassion Art Therapy (MCAT).
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At the end of the course, participants should be able to:
- Identify key ethical principles that arise in end-of-life care, focusing on a community setting
- Describe the common ethical issues that arise in end-of-life care
- Analyse common ethical issues that arise in end-of-life care using the relevant tools
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