PLATO: a global project to share teaching and learning in palliative care.
Contact address:
Academic Study Centre
Sir Michael Sobell House
Churchill Hospital
Headington
Oxford OX3 7LJ
Tel: 01865 225886
Fax 01865 225599
ssc@orh.nhs.uk
Activities:
2005/2006:
International consultation carried out for ‘Palliative Care Education in other continents’ (Newell-Jones 2007) In Wee and Hughes (eds) Education in Palliative Care: Building a Culture of Learning.
2006:
- PLATO collaborative partnerships established
- Consultation undertaken by project director
Key themes identified:
- Enhancing skills of experienced trainers and educators in palliative care (more information)
- Development of mentorship and supervisory models with particular reference to working with less formally trained palliative care personnel (e.g. domiciliary care givers, volunteer bereavement counsellors) (more information)
- Enhancing the focus on rehabilitation in palliative care practice (more information)
- Curriculum enhancement informed by structured evaluation (more information)
- Annual Collaborative Learning in Palliative Care Seminars (more information)
2007: March - Website established
2007: March/April: PLATO Bursaries 2007.
Three bursaries, funded by Sobell House Charity, have been awarded to explore
- the challanges of supporting less formally trained community-based palliative care givers
- the role of disability and rehabilitation in palliaitve care education.
2007: April: Project Director visit to Argentina
- to support bursary project on rehabilitation and disability
- to support the development of Training of Trainers programme led by Argentina (on-going)
- to explore criteria for evaluation of existing interprofessional
courses (on-going)
Download Presentations:
Posadas Hospital Buenos Aires April 13th 2007
Participative Communication, PLATO, Pallium April 2007
Assessing Competence, Udaondo Hospital, Buenos Aires April 19th 2007
2007: September 28th-29th - Dissemination seminars for bursary holders.
The international group at Sobell House, 29/9/2007
Download Presentations:
Mentorship and Supervisory Models for Community Caregivers
Nkosazana Ngidi
Chairperson, Education & Research
Hospice Palliative Care Association, S.A.Rehabilitation in Advanced Cancer Patients
María Laura Daud
Pallium Latinoamérica, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Exploring the relationship between Rehabilitative and Palliative Care Services
Michelle Meiring
Bigshoes Foundation, Wits Health Consortium, S. A.
