Course Calendar

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09:30 Building Confidence In Your Interpersonal Skills for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Building Confidence In Your Interpersonal Skills for ES/CS/SAS (SW26-098)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Tue 3 Nov 2026, 09:30 to 15:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 5.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: Enhancing patient-centred care requires strong communication skills. This interactive workshop equips medical professionals with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to build trust through active listening, clear speech, and empathy. Through role play and discussion, attendees will refine verbal, nonverbal, and para-verbal communication while managing emotions under pressure.

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09:00 Leading as a Trainee: A Clinical Leadership Workshop for ST3-5 Trainees   Availability: Places available
Title: Leading as a Trainee: A Clinical Leadership Workshop for ST3-5 Trainees (SW26-110)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Fri 6 Nov 2026, 09:00 to 15:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop provides an introduction to leadership from the perspective of trainees. It will be most relevant to those who have had little experience of leadership training in the past. It will be an interactive, reflective day providing an understanding of clinical leadership, its role within the NHS and practical actions for trainees development.

09:30 Reflecting On and Learning from Feedback for Doctors in Training   Availability: Places available
Title: Reflecting On and Learning from Feedback for Doctors in Training (SW26-119)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Fri 6 Nov 2026, 09:30 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This training package will help guide doctors through reflection and provide the opportunity to practice. We will focus on how self-reflection, feedback from the trainer, and a feedback conversation can improve the performance and values of feedback, both formal and informal. We will also go on to explore why receiving feedback is so hard and how we can help overcome it. Covering psychological safety, thinking about how we can overcome some of the barriers to hearing, and using feedback in a clinical and learning environment. 

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09:20 Support Residents to Manage Stress and Enhance Mental Fitness for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Support Residents to Manage Stress and Enhance Mental Fitness for ES/CS/SAS (DT26-068)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Tue 10 Nov 2026, 09:20 to 15:30
Course style: Workshop
Catering: N/A
CPD: 5.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop supports trainers to better understand and promote mental fitness among residents, equipping them with practical strategies to foster resilience, self-awareness and sustainable performance in training. Participants will explore how to recognise early signs of stress, create psychologically safe learning environments, and hold effective 1:1s that support development and mental fitness. The session empowers trainers to support residents in building the habits, mindset and coping skills essential whilst working in high-pressure clinical settings and sustaining long-term career fulfilment.

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18:00 Understanding GMC concerns and complaints processes’   Availability: Places available
Title: Understanding GMC concerns and complaints processes’ (SW26-034)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Wed 11 Nov 2026, 18:00 to 19:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 1.0 point
Cost: No charge
Description: Demystifying GMC concerns and complaints processes data and trends: In this session we will consider the role of the GMC and our standards in relation to how we deal with concerns. We will review patterns of complaints that we receive and how we deal with those, providing doctors with a fuller understanding of how our investigation and fitness to processes work.

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09:20 Returning to Work - Ready, Steady, Go!   Availability: Places available
Title: Returning to Work - Ready, Steady, Go! (DT26-073)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Thu 12 Nov 2026, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 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.

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09:30 Confidence Training for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Confidence Training for ES/CS/SAS (SW26-085)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Tue 17 Nov 2026, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 6.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This training enables you to feel more confident, comfortable and empowered as you engage with your work and your life more broadly. The course provides an opportunity for you to explore the theme of confidence in a safe environment. We will probe what confidence looks, sounds, feels and acts like. Key component parts of confidence will be highlighted and how they work, including how you may have been getting in your own way. Once you understand these mechanisms and how to apply them, you will have access to a toolkit which can significantly increase your inner comfort and assurance. You will be empowered to cultivate more self-acceptance and a positive self-view. You will learn how to ground yourself, when anxiety or agitation arises. Elevating your personal confidence will impact your effectiveness in all of your activities, and allow you to bring your unique strengths, both in work and outside of work. This training is liberating and uplifting. You have everything you need within you to experience greater confidence.

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09:30 Improving Feedback & Reflection for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Improving Feedback & Reflection for ES/CS/SAS (SW26-006)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Mon 23 Nov 2026, 09:30 to 12:30
Course style: Workshop
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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09:30 Influencing & Engaging for Change for Doctors in Training   Availability: Places available
Title: Influencing & Engaging for Change for Doctors in Training (SW26-097)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Tue 24 Nov 2026, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Workshop
Catering: N/A
CPD: 6.000 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.