Educating Compassion in Healthcare: Is it possible and what would it mean?

03/12/2014
The Royal Society of Medicine, Wimpole Street, London
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This meeting was run jointly in partnership and the Royal Society of Medicine Open Section and in association with The Human Values Healthcare Forum

Aims

To explore what education has to do with compassion in healthcare

To consider...

  • The role of narrative and time in the formation of compassion via humanities subjects such as philosophy, literature and theology
  • The significance of role modelling, leadership and educational relationships
  • The influence of law and politics on the ethos of healthcare
  • Research in educational practice

Objectives

  • To develop research and knowledge exchange between healthcare, philosophy, theology and other humanities disciplines around the theme of compassion 
  • To support doctors, nurses, managers and others working in healthcare in understanding and practicing compassion
  • To encourage policy thinking about resilience and compassion in healthcare institutions

Speakers

Dr Joshua Hordern, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Oxford

Dr Andrew Papanikitas, President, RSM Open Section, GP & NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in General Practice, Oxford

Jocelyn Cornwell, Senior Fellow, The King's Fund

Dr Clare Gerada, GP, former Chair RCGP

Dr Paquita de Zulueta, GP & Honorary Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London

Dr Bee Wee, National Clinical Director for End of Life Care, NHS England

Dr John Gillies, GP, former Chari RCGP, Scotland

Prof John Wyatt, Emeritus Professor of Perinatology and Ethics, UCL

Prof Jonathan Herring, Tutor and Fellow in Law, Exeter College, Oxford

Dr Helen Salisbury, GP & Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Communication Skills, Oxford