Course Calendar

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09:30 Influencing & Engaging for Change for Doctors in Training   Availability: Places available
Title: Influencing & Engaging for Change for Doctors in Training (SW25-040)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Mon 3 Nov 2025, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop focuses on how to offer others the invitation to change (behaviour, attitudes, thoughts, and beliefs) and embrace new ways in a committed way.

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09:20 Managing Stress and Boosting Mental Fitness for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Managing Stress and Boosting Mental Fitness for ES/CS/SAS (DT25-040)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Tue 4 Nov 2025, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: To equip participants with essential skills and strategies for managing stress and enhancing mental fitness, thereby improving their ability to provide exceptional care while maintaining their own health and motivation.

09:30 Break down unconscious bias within your workplace for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Break down unconscious bias within your workplace for ES/CS/SAS (SW25-103)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Tue 4 Nov 2025, 09:30 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This course will help participants to manage their biases and develop skills for overcoming them. Evolutionary psychologists report that we have learned to make up our minds, in a split-second, about whether we are encountering friend or foe and are hard-wired to be suspicious of those different from ourselves. Overweight people, those with a weak handshake or tattoos, and of course gender issues, race, LGBT (to name just a few!). This undermines confidence and may result in poor performance, disengagement and conflict. As a result, individuals and organisations are missing out on great talent; not forming strong working relationships, inhibiting excellent performance etc.

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09:20 Mastering Emotional Intelligence for Doctors for Doctors in Training   Availability: Places available
Title: Mastering Emotional Intelligence for Doctors for Doctors in Training (DT25-041)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Wed 5 Nov 2025, 09:20 to 15:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: The primary aim of this workshop is to equip doctors with essential emotional intelligence skills that enhance their professional performance and patient interactions.

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09:30 Effective Communication Across Different Cultures for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Effective Communication Across Different Cultures for ES/CS/SAS (SW25-041)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Thu 6 Nov 2025, 09:30 to 15:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 5.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: Arriving in the UK from abroad to work within the NHS could be intimidating all on its own but throw in cultural differences and this can create all sorts of challenges. This interactive workshop concentrates on understanding the British culture surrounding the NHS and the challenges faced by doctors starting their career.

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09:20 Supporting the Doctor Returning to Training and Less than Full Time Trainee for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Supporting the Doctor Returning to Training and Less than Full Time Trainee for ES/CS/SAS (DT25-042)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Fri 7 Nov 2025, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: To equip supervisors with the skills and knowledge needed to effectively support doctors returning to training and those working LTFT, ensuring a smooth transition and optimal performance in their roles.

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09:20 Supporting IMG Doctors through Peer Mentorship for Doctors in Training   Availability: Places available
Title: Supporting IMG Doctors through Peer Mentorship for Doctors in Training (DT25-043)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Mon 10 Nov 2025, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop is designed to equip colleagues with advanced mentoring skills and strategies to effectively support International Medical Graduates and Locally Employed Doctors, ensuring a smooth transition and successful training experience within the NHS.

10:00 Finance & Business Planning for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Finance & Business Planning for ES/CS/SAS (SW25-042)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Mon 10 Nov 2025, 10:00 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 2.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: The ability to understand finance and write a business plan has never been more important within the NHS. Are your knowledge and skills good enough? This webinar provides an introduction to finance and business planning within the National Health Service and explains why a good grasp of these disciplines is so important within the current context. There is also the opportunity for some practical teamwork – constructing an outline business case

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09:30 Lean Thinking for Doctors in Training   Availability: Places available
Title: Lean Thinking for Doctors in Training (SW25-043)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Tue 11 Nov 2025, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This training package focuses on how to adjust your ways of thinking to understand how to maximise your input to ensure that your service can maximise their input, ultimately reducing the risk of human-led errors for the customers.

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09:20 Mindfulness Practice in Medicine for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Mindfulness Practice in Medicine for ES/CS/SAS (DT25-044)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Wed 12 Nov 2025, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop aims to equip participants with evidence-based mindfulness practices to manage stress, enhance self-care, and improve overall well-being. By integrating mindfulness techniques into daily routines, attendees will develop a sustainable approach to coping with stress and improving their quality of life, aligned with current research and clinical standards.

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09:30 Coaching Tools for a Compassionate Culture: Healthy Team Dynamics   Availability: Places available
Title: Coaching Tools for a Compassionate Culture: Healthy Team Dynamics (SW25-097)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Thu 13 Nov 2025, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 6.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This training package focuses on developing approaches for healthy team dynamics. This day will include strategies for creating a healthy team environment, managing team dynamics, facilitating effective communication, and considering how we as individuals can play a part in influencing team culture and behaviours. It will be an interactive day and will help us reflect on ways to work towards growing a functional team where psychological safety and compassion are the norm.

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09:30 QI Essentials Level Bronze for International Medical Graduates (IMGs)   Availability: Places available
Title: QI Essentials Level Bronze for International Medical Graduates (IMGs) (QIB13)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Virtual
Date: Fri 14 Nov 2025, 09:30 to 13:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: Health Innovation South West (HISW) in partnership with Workforce, Training & Education, NHSE-SW is offering Bronze QI training for IMGs, free at the point of delivery.

10:15 Active Bystander and Allyship Workshop for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Active Bystander and Allyship Workshop for ES/CS/SAS (SW25-089)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Virtual
Date: Fri 14 Nov 2025, 10:15 to 12:45
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 2.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: Our learning environment, relationships with our peers and teachers and the feelings of inclusion and belonging are key for achieving one’s full potential. These are some of the key principles found to influence and address the differential attainment gap that exists. The Active Bystander training aims to empower educators and learners across our education community to recognise and challenge poor behaviours and practices that have a negative impact on an individual’s experience. This is a powerful tool, evidenced to empower and help bring about cultural change and collectively create a safer and more supportive learning and working environment for all.

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09:20 Future Medical Education Leaders Development Programme   Availability: Places available
Title: Future Medical Education Leaders Development Programme (DT25-091)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
2 Sessions: Starting on Mon 17 Nov 2025 at 09:20
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 10.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: The primary aim of this 2-day workshop is to equip future leaders in medical education with the essential skills and strategies needed to excel in educational leadership roles.

09:30 Improving Feedback & Reflection for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Improving Feedback & Reflection for ES/CS/SAS (SW25-006)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Virtual
Date: Mon 17 Nov 2025, 09:30 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop focuses on how PGDiT self-reflection, feedback from the trainer, and trainer reflection can improve the performance and values of feedback, both formal and informal. It will also go on to explore why receiving feedback is so hard and how we can help overcome it.

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09:00 Leadership, Teamworking & Influencing Skills: Beyond Foundation Years   Availability: Places available
Title: Leadership, Teamworking & Influencing Skills: Beyond Foundation Years (SW25-044)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Virtual
Date: Wed 19 Nov 2025, 09:00 to 16:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop provides you with some simple, effective, and practical generic teamwork, management, and leadership skills that you can immediately start thinking about and using in complex situations at work and, for that matter, in your personal life.

09:30 Professional Capabilities Framework for Supervisors: Introductory Workshop - Are you ready to assess your trainees?   Availability: Places available
Title: Professional Capabilities Framework for Supervisors: Introductory Workshop - Are you ready to assess your trainees? (SW25-071)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Wed 19 Nov 2025, 09:30 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This training package focuses on developing trainers skills to enable them to be able to demonstrate that they have the necessary skills and understanding of these generic professional capabilities to assess them, and be able to provide specific comments and feedback on a PG DiT’s performance. Trainers will become confident and feel supported in expressing their professional judgement about generic outcomes alongside specialty outcomes for their PG DiTs, as well as being able to give feedback to PG DiT to identify areas for improvement and highlight areas of excellence.

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09:20 Differential Attainment in Medical Education for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Differential Attainment in Medical Education for ES/CS/SAS (DT25-045)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Thu 20 Nov 2025, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: To equip medical educators, leaders, and healthcare professionals with the skills and strategies necessary to address differential attainment, promote equity, and create an inclusive and supportive learning environment in medical education.

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09:20 Mastering Emotional Intelligence for Doctors for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Mastering Emotional Intelligence for Doctors for ES/CS/SAS (DT25-094)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Fri 21 Nov 2025, 09:20 to 15:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 5.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: The primary aim of this workshop is to equip doctors with essential emotional intelligence skills that enhance their professional performance and patient interactions.

10:15 Challenging Conversations and Effective Feedback for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Challenging Conversations and Effective Feedback for ES/CS/SAS (SW25-094)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Virtual
Date: Fri 21 Nov 2025, 10:15 to 12:45
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 2.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: Our learning environment, relationships with our peers and teachers and the feelings of inclusion and belonging are key for achieving one’s full potential. These are some of the key principles found to influence and address the differential attainment gap that exists. Facilitating challenging conversations with trainees about their progress is frequently cited as a key issue of difficulty, but feedback is the most powerful single modification that enhances achievement. This workshop aims explore these challenges and offer some solutions.

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09:00 Supervisor Training Modules 1-3   Availability: Places available
Title: Supervisor Training Modules 1-3 (STM25-013)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Virtual
Date: Mon 24 Nov 2025, 09:00 to 13:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This is for those wishing to become a Clinical Supervisor - to book a place, please email: england.facultydevelopment.sw@nhs.net

13:30 Supervisor Training Modules 4-5   Availability: Places available
Title: Supervisor Training Modules 4-5 (STM25-014)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Virtual
Date: Mon 24 Nov 2025, 13:30 to 16:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This is for those already accredited as Clinical Supervisors wishing to become Educational Supervisors - to book a place, please email: england.facultydevelopment.sw@nhs.net

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09:20 Returning to Work - Ready, Steady, Go!   Availability: Places available
Title: Returning to Work - Ready, Steady, Go! (DT25-046)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Tue 25 Nov 2025, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 0.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: The primary aim of this workshop is to assist doctors returning to work after a significant absence in managing their health, stress, and workload effectively. By focusing on personalised planning, energy management, and work-life balance, the workshop aims to ensure a smooth transition back to training and professional success.

09:30 Understanding Human Behaviour to Communicate More Effectively for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Understanding Human Behaviour to Communicate More Effectively for ES/CS/SAS (SW25-045)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Tue 25 Nov 2025, 09:30 to 15:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 5.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: There are nearly 8 billion people on the planet. That is a lot of different people with a lot of different personalities. Medical professionals come across so many different personalities, presenting different behaviours, day in and day out. Some people (and their behaviour) are easy to communicate with and others are not. They don’t understand what you are trying to say, they don’t do what you ask of them and use behaviour that makes no sense to the other person. This interactive workshop is designed to shed light on the different personality and behaviour types so we can learn to adapt the way we communicate to accommodate others, allowing for confident, assertive and effective communication.

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09:30 Introduction to Coaching and Mentoring Skills for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Introduction to Coaching and Mentoring Skills for ES/CS/SAS (SW25-017)
Venue: Zoom, Virtual
Date: Fri 28 Nov 2025, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 6.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop focuses on introducing the concepts relating to coaching and mentoring and providing participants with practical models to utilise.