What’s new at Oxford Medical Training?

Oxford_Medical-Training_NewsAt Oxford Medical Training we support thousands of doctors each year through our training events, programmes and materials.  Here is some information about the recent changes which we have made in our drive to continually improve our service to you.

  • New locations – Belfast, Leeds/Wakefield and Nottingham

  • Advanced Patient Communication Skills for Doctors

  • Presenting, Lecturing and Public Speaking for Doctors

  • New 10% discount for returning course delegates

NEW LOCATIONS

To make it easier for you to access our interactive training events, we now offer a selection of courses in the following cities:

  • Belfast – NEW
  • Glasgow
  • Leeds/Wakefield – NEW
  • London
  • Nottingham – NEW
  • Manchester
  • Oxford

Why not double up attending a course with meeting up with friends or family?

ADVANCED PATIENT COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR DOCTORS:

Introducing:

As a doctor, your ability to interact effectively with others – to ensure that all concerned hear what needs to be heard whilst you demonstrate respect, compassion and commitment to care – has a powerful impact upon your patients, carers and colleagues.  This is explicitly recognised within the third and fourth domains of Good Medical Practice.  A proactive approach to reviewing and enhancing your patient communication skills must therefore be treated as equally important as any other clinical skill.

Our brand new Advanced Patient Communication Skills Course for Doctors ran for the first time in January this year to excellent feedback.  We explore how we create dialogue, factors affecting communication and behaviour as well as communication approaches in healthcare.  Along the way we support you to consider your current practice and the challenges which you face.  We work with you to increase your self-awareness, building on your current abilities to improve patient interaction, particularly applying this to gathering information, making effective recommendations, breaking bad news and saying ‘no’.

This course is designed to be both distinct from and to complement our Advanced Team Communication Skills Course for Doctors.  We therefore schedule the two courses to run on consecutive days where possible to make it easier for you to access both.

The next dates for these courses:

  • Advanced Team Communication Skills Course for Doctors – Friday 8th May 2015
  • Advanced Patient Communication Skills Course for Doctors – Saturday 9thMay 2015

Alternatively try our new Advanced Patient Communication Skills for Doctors book, a comprehensive resource which is packed with information and useful exercises to challenge your thinking and support improvements.

What are you doing to improve your communication skills?

INTRODUCING ‘PRESENTING, LECTURING AND PUBLIC SPEAKING FOR DOCTORS’

Around a thousand doctors each year enjoy participating in our renowned two day Teach the Teacher Course for Doctors.  You may well have been one of these delegates.  Many doctors tell us that they would love to attend a one day course to concentrate specifically on presenting and lecturing, so that is what we’ve created.

Our highly interactive one day course, Presenting, Lecturing and Public Speaking for Doctors focuses on improving the skills you require for presenting to medium and large sized groups. Our expert facilitator will coach you in applying the theoretical concepts which are shared in an effective and practical manner. Discover and improve your ability to structure content for maximum impact, create messages which appeal and are memorable, and develop strategies to cope with presentation nerves.  The course provides you with the time and opportunity to practice and refine your techniques with feedback from both the course tutor and other delegates, to ensure that your future presentations will have the desired impact.

If you have an important presentation coming up why not come along to this course, practice it live and get immediate feedback from a professional presenter?

The next date for this course is:

  • Presenting, Lecturing and Public Speaking for Doctors – Saturday 9th May 2015

10% DISCOUNT FOR RETURNING DELEGATES:

We trust you have enjoyed the Oxford Medical Training products which you have used to date.  We now offer a 10% discount on any course to our returning delegates.  This makes it easier for example to attend both versions of our communication skills courses.  Alternatively you may want to attend Teach the Teacher and then Presenting, Lecturing and Public Speaking for Doctors, or you may want to mix and match courses from our medical interview skills or medical leadership and management categories.

You will have been given a code whenever you have attended a course by your tutor.  Simply use this when you are using our online booking system.  If your code has been misplaced, or if you are booking more than one course at the same time, then either call us on 0131 526 3700, or email [email protected].  We will check our system for your details then help you to book and receive your discount.

We look forward to working with you again in the near future.

Stephen McGuire – Training Manager