Course Calendar

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09:30 Reflecting On and Learning from Feedback for Resident Doctors   Availability: Places available
Title: Reflecting On and Learning from Feedback for Resident Doctors (SW26-120)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Fri 8 Jan 2027, 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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09:00 Motivational Interviewing for Resident Doctors   Availability: Places available
Title: Motivational Interviewing for Resident Doctors (SW26-070)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
2 Sessions: Starting on Tue 12 Jan 2027 at 09:00
Course style: Workshop
Catering: N/A
CPD: 12.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This 2-day course introduces Doctors to Motivational Interviewing (MI) The course will focus on using the skills of MI in conversations between clinician and patient to support change-based consultations. Often to be helpful, clinicians try and convince patients to change, at times to no avail. MI allows us to consider a different way to work with people and help in a way that may allow sustained change. Initially focusing on developing the interpersonal relationship allows the opportunity to direct the conversation towards change where necessary even in those less ready to do so.

09:20 Feedback and Challenging Conversations for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Feedback and Challenging Conversations for ES/CS/SAS (DT26-089)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Tue 12 Jan 2027, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: The objective of this course is to provide attendees with practical skills and strategies for delivering effective feedback, managing challenging conversations, and supporting reflective practice, thereby improving communication and professional interactions.

09:30 Effective Communication Across Different Cultures for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Effective Communication Across Different Cultures for ES/CS/SAS (SW26-102)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Tue 12 Jan 2027, 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.

17:00 Social media and online professionalism   Availability: Places available
Title: Social media and online professionalism (SW26-037)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Tue 12 Jan 2027, 17:00 to 18:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 1.0 point
Cost: No charge
Description: Online Professionalism (social media): In an increasingly digital world we consider how you can ensure you use the online world, especially social media, for your benefit whilst remaining professional.

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09:30 Influencing & Engaging for Change for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Influencing & Engaging for Change for ES/CS/SAS (SW26-094)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Wed 13 Jan 2027, 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.

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09:20 Enhanced Supervision for LED & IMG Trainees for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Enhanced Supervision for LED & IMG Trainees for ES/CS/SAS (DT26-088)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Thu 14 Jan 2027, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Workshop
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: To provide trainers with advanced skills and insights to effectively support IMGs and LEDs, ensuring they receive high-quality training and career guidance within the NHS.

09:30 Confidence Training for Resident Doctors   Availability: Places available
Title: Confidence Training for Resident Doctors (SW26-083)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Thu 14 Jan 2027, 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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09:00 Leading as a Resident Doctor: A Clinical Leadership Workshop for ST3-5   Availability: Places available
Title: Leading as a Resident Doctor: A Clinical Leadership Workshop for ST3-5 (SW26-111)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Fri 15 Jan 2027, 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 resident doctors. 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 resident doctors' development.

09:20 Championing Sexual Safety: Leading Respectful and Inclusive Workplaces - for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Championing Sexual Safety: Leading Respectful and Inclusive Workplaces - for ES/CS/SAS (DT26-087)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Fri 15 Jan 2027, 09:20 to 15:30
Course style: Workshop
Catering: N/A
CPD: 5.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: To equip healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills to navigate and uphold sexual safety standards, fostering a respectful and secure environment through proactive bystander intervention and effective response strategies.

09:30 Skilled Coaching Workshop for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Only 5 places available
Title: Skilled Coaching Workshop for ES/CS/SAS (SW26-046)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
2 Sessions: Starting on Fri 15 Jan 2027 at 09:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 10.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: To attend this course, you must have attended the "Introduction to Coaching & Mentoring Skills" course first. This two-day training package is a follow-on course from “Introduction to Coaching and Mentoring Skills for Educational and Clinical Supervisors." You will deepen the skills of coaching to support meaningful conversations and explore tools and techniques to help others build their development and self-belief.

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09:00 Supervisor Training Modules 1-3   Availability: Places available
Title: Supervisor Training Modules 1-3 (SW26-063)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Mon 18 Jan 2027, 09:00 to 13:00
Course style: Workshop
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 (SW26-064)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Mon 18 Jan 2027, 13:30 to 16:30
Course style: Workshop
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 Managing the Expectation Gap   Availability: Only 9 places available
Title: Managing the Expectation Gap (DT26-121)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Tue 19 Jan 2027, 09:20 to 15:30
Course style: Workshop
Catering: N/A
CPD: 5.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This workshop equips supervisors with insights and strategies to understand and bridge generational differences within medical teams. It emphasises managing expectations on both sides to facilitate compromises that enhance team dynamics and improve patient care, focusing on effective communication and collaboration among diverse age groups. Participants will explore the distinct characteristics and professional expectations of different generational cohorts—Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and Generation Z. The workshop will provide techniques for managing expectations, fostering mutual understanding, and developing strategies to motivate and engage a multigenerational workforce effectively.

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09:20 Mentoring for Exam Success   Availability: Places available
Title: Mentoring for Exam Success (DT26-139)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Wed 20 Jan 2027, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Workshop
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: Supporting a doctor through postgraduate exams is one of the most important things a supervisor can do, and one of the least supported. You want to help. But good intentions are not a method. Without a structured approach, supervision around exam preparation often defaults to encouragement, signposting, and hoping the trainee figures it out. That is not enough, and most supervisors know it. This workshop, designed for doctors by doctors, gives supervisors the practical tools to have genuinely useful coaching conversations with trainees who are preparing for postgraduate exams. Drawing on the science of learning, performance psychology, and brain health, participants explore what actually gets in the way of exam success for busy clinicians, and how to address it. Through facilitated reflection, small group discussion, and applied skills practice, you will leave with a concrete coaching framework you can use in your next supervision meeting.

09:20 SAS Doctors as an Educator   Availability: Places available
Title: SAS Doctors as an Educator (DT26-093)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Wed 20 Jan 2027, 09:20 to 15:20
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 5.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: To equip SAS doctors with the skills and strategies needed to effectively educate and support postgraduate doctors, ensuring alignment with GMC endorsed standards and improving overall training quality.

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09:00 Leadership, Teamworking & Influencing Skills: Beyond Foundation Years   Availability: Places available
Title: Leadership, Teamworking & Influencing Skills: Beyond Foundation Years (SW26-115)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Thu 21 Jan 2027, 09:00 to 16:00
Course style: Workshop
Catering: N/A
CPD: 6.000 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.

09:20 Difficult Conversations and Conflict Resolution for Doctors in Training   Availability: Places available
Title: Difficult Conversations and Conflict Resolution for Doctors in Training (DT26-092)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Thu 21 Jan 2027, 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 develop participants’ skills in managing difficult conversations and resolving conflicts within healthcare settings.

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09:20 Exam Ready - Study Strategies that Work for Resident Doctors   Availability: Places available
Title: Exam Ready - Study Strategies that Work for Resident Doctors (DT26-118)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Fri 22 Jan 2027, 09:20 to 15:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 5.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This supportive, practical workshop helps doctors strengthen their study skills and exam preparation strategies, whatever stage of training they are at. It focuses on building effective, sustainable approaches to learning that fit around clinical work, reduce stress, and improve confidence, performance, and exam success.

09:20 Senior Faculty Masterclass – Supporting Diverse Learners   Availability: Places available
Title: Senior Faculty Masterclass – Supporting Diverse Learners (DT26-023)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Fri 22 Jan 2027, 09:20 to 15:30
Course style: Workshop
Catering: N/A
CPD: 5.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: The primary aim of this masterclass is to equip senior faculty members with advanced skills and strategies for supporting diverse learners with individual unique needs.

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09:20 Understanding and Supporting Neurodivergent Doctors for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Understanding and Supporting Neurodivergent Doctors for ES/CS/SAS (DT26-090)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Mon 25 Jan 2027, 09:20 to 15:30
Course style: Workshop
Catering: N/A
CPD: 5.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: The objective of this initiative is to promote understanding of neurodiversity among doctors, and to identify effective strategies for supporting both neurodiverse and neurotypical trainees and colleagues.

09:30 Improving Feedback & Reflection for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Improving Feedback & Reflection for ES/CS/SAS (SW26-004)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Mon 25 Jan 2027, 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.

14:00 Supervisor Training Module 4: How to Support Trainees   Availability: Places available
Title: Supervisor Training Module 4: How to Support Trainees (SW26-149)
Venue: Sandford Education Centre, Cheltenham, Cheltenham - Severn
Date: Mon 25 Jan 2027, 14:00 to 16:30
Course style: Workshop
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: *In-person course only* Develop the confidence and skills to constructively help trainees who require additional support. The role of the Educational Supervisor will be clarified as well as how to access additional resources.

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09:20 Championing Sexual Safety: Leading Respectful and Inclusive Workplaces - for Resident Doctors   Availability: Places available
Title: Championing Sexual Safety: Leading Respectful and Inclusive Workplaces - for Resident Doctors (DT26-091)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Fri 29 Jan 2027, 09:20 to 15:30
Course style: Workshop
Catering: N/A
CPD: 6.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: To equip healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills to navigate and uphold sexual safety standards, fostering a respectful and secure environment through proactive bystander intervention and effective response strategies.