Course Calendar

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08:30 Educational and Clinical Supervisor Training - 1-5 Core Modules   Availability: Places available
Title: Educational and Clinical Supervisor Training - 1-5 Core Modules (SW26-154)
Venue: Postgraduate Centre, University Hospitals Plymouth, Plymouth
Date: Tue 2 Feb 2027, 08:30 to 16:30
Course style: South West Education Development Day
Catering: Lunch & refreshments
CPD: 6.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This is for those wishing to become both Clinical Supervisors and Educational Supervisors - to book a place, please email:plh-tr.pgmccourses@nhs.net. Please note that this course is in person only.

09:20 Senior Faculty Leadership and Quality   Availability: Places available
Title: Senior Faculty Leadership and Quality (DT26-100)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Tue 2 Feb 2027, 09:20 to 15:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 5.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: The primary aim of this masterclass is to equip senior medical educators with advanced leadership skills and comprehensive knowledge in educational governance and quality assurance. By focusing on practical strategies, real-world case studies, and interactive learning, the workshop seeks to enhance your ability to lead, manage, and assure quality in medical education programmes effectively.

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09:20 Psychological Safety, Civility and Active Bystander Training   Availability: Places available
Title: Psychological Safety, Civility and Active Bystander Training (DT26-134)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Wed 3 Feb 2027, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Workshop
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 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.

09:30 Confidence Training for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Confidence Training for ES/CS/SAS (SW26-086)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Wed 3 Feb 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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09:20 Difficult Conversations and Conflict Resolution for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Difficult Conversations and Conflict Resolution for ES/CS/SAS (DT26-095)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Thu 4 Feb 2027, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Workshop
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.

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 (DT26-096)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Thu 4 Feb 2027, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Workshop
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 Psychological Safety, Civility and Active Bystander Training for Residents   Availability: Places available
Title: Psychological Safety, Civility and Active Bystander Training for Residents (DT26-131)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Fri 5 Feb 2027, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Workshop
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 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.

09:20 Time Management Essentials for Doctors in Training   Availability: Places available
Title: Time Management Essentials for Doctors in Training (DT26-098)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Fri 5 Feb 2027, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Workshop
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: The objective of this course is to enhance participants’ time management and work-life balance skills, focusing on practical methods to improve productivity, reduce stress, and achieve a balanced professional and personal life.

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09:30 Improving Feedback & Reflection for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Improving Feedback & Reflection for ES/CS/SAS (SW26-008)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Mon 8 Feb 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.

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09:30 Lean Thinking for Resident Doctors   Availability: Places available
Title: Lean Thinking for Resident Doctors (SW26-092)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Tue 9 Feb 2027, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 6.000 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.

09:30 Understanding Human Behaviour to Communicate More Effectively for Doctors in Training & IMGs   Availability: Places available
Title: Understanding Human Behaviour to Communicate More Effectively for Doctors in Training & IMGs (SW26-104)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Tue 9 Feb 2027, 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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09:20 Imposter Syndrome and Perfectionism in Medicine   Availability: Places available
Title: Imposter Syndrome and Perfectionism in Medicine (DT26-127)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Wed 10 Feb 2027, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Workshop
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: From the culture of perfectionism embedded in medical training to the unspoken expectation that doubt equals incompetence, doctors are uniquely primed to internalise feelings of “not being good enough”. This workshop explores the evidence behind why certain specialities and training environments breed imposter syndrome, and how this is linked to poor wellbeing and burnout. This interactive session will help you recognise the patterns that keep you stuck in self-doubt, understand how imposter syndrome connects to burnout and over-functioning, and leave with practical, evidence-based strategies to silence your inner critic, without abandoning the standards that make you a great doctor-based strategies to silence your inner critic, without abandoning the standards that make you a great doctor.

17:30 Personal Beliefs and Maintaining Professional Boundaries   Availability: Places available
Title: Personal Beliefs and Maintaining Professional Boundaries (SW26-038)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Wed 10 Feb 2027, 17:30 to 19:00
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 2.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: Do you know what to say if a patient asks you to pray with them? How do you effectively build relationships with patients who have different values to yours or disagree with the treatment you recommend? How should you respond if a patient wants to be your friend? What are the boundaries between patient and doctor and how can you best maintain them? We explore these questions based on our professional standards for all doctors. This session looks at drawing the line between being a good doctor and overstepping professional boundaries.

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09:20 Career Counselling Skills for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Career Counselling Skills for ES/CS/SAS (DT26-094)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Thu 11 Feb 2027, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Workshop
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: The aim of this workshop is to provide participants with effective tools and frameworks, including the 4-stage approach and ROADS to Success, for supporting trainees in understanding their career drivers, making informed choices, and developing actionable career plans.

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09:00 Skilled Motivational Interviewing for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Skilled Motivational Interviewing for ES/CS/SAS (SW26-073)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
2 Sessions: Starting on Mon 22 Feb 2027 at 09:00
Course style: Workshop
Catering: N/A
CPD: 12.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This 2-day course focuses on using the skills of Motivational Interviewing (MI) in conversations between supervisor and trainee to support the growth of the trainee, in a way that may allow sustained change. Initially focusing on developing the Dr-Trainee interpersonal relationship allows the opportunity to direct the conversation towards change where necessary even in those less ready to do so. You must have competed the Introduction to MI half day course before attending this course.

09:00 Supervisor Training Modules 1-3   Availability: Places available
Title: Supervisor Training Modules 1-3 (SW26-061)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Mon 22 Feb 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 (SW26-062)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Mon 22 Feb 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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09:00 Leadership, Teamworking & Influencing Skills: Beyond Foundation Years   Availability: Places available
Title: Leadership, Teamworking & Influencing Skills: Beyond Foundation Years (SW26-116)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Wed 24 Feb 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 Advanced Communication Skills Masterclass for International Medical Graduate (IMG) Resident Doctors   Availability: Places available
Title: Advanced Communication Skills Masterclass for International Medical Graduate (IMG) Resident Doctors (DT26-099)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Wed 24 Feb 2027, 09:20 to 15:30
Course style: Workshop
Catering: N/A
CPD: 6.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This masterclass is tailored for international medical graduates aiming to refine their communication skills and model exceptional professional behaviours in diverse and complex situations. Led by a senior trainer, this workshop provides interactive exercises and expert guidance to enhance proficiency in navigating challenging communication scenarios. Participants will gain advanced skills in effective communication, including overcoming barriers such as cultural and linguistic differences. The workshop focuses on techniques for active listening, empathy, and giving constructive feedback. Emphasis is placed on understanding nonverbal communication, improving assertiveness, and building cross-cultural competence to foster a more effective and supportive healthcare environment.

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09:30 Enhanced Support: Supporting Both You and Your Resident Doctors for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Enhanced Support: Supporting Both You and Your Resident Doctors for ES/CS/SAS (SW26-125)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Thu 25 Feb 2027, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Webinar
Catering: N/A
CPD: 6.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: This is an interactive course designed to help you further support yourself and resident doctors and dentists that you supervise. We will recap what was taught on your original supporting resident doctors course with regard to recognising those in difficulty and will focus a little more on moral distress and burnout. Your experienced facilitators, who both work within the Professional Support and Wellbeing (PSW) team at NHSE SW and are trained coaches, will take you through some support tools, allow you to ask plenty of questions, and show you what support is available. The day will finish on a positive note: how to help your residents flourish and achieve their goals!

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09:20 Time Management Essentials for ES/CS/SAS   Availability: Places available
Title: Time Management Essentials for ES/CS/SAS (DT26-097)
Venue: TBC, TBC - Virtual
Date: Fri 26 Feb 2027, 09:20 to 12:30
Course style: Workshop
Catering: N/A
CPD: 3.000 points
Cost: No charge
Description: The objective of this course is to enhance participants’ time management and work-life balance skills, focusing on practical methods to improve productivity, reduce stress, and achieve a balanced professional and personal life.

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 (SW26-018)
Venue: via MS Teams or Zoom, - - Virtual
Date: Fri 26 Feb 2027, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Workshop
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.