Serious Illness Conversations Workshop

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Welcome to Serious Illness Conversations Workshop

This 1.5-day workshop will equip healthcare professionals (HCP) with the skills to conduct serious illness conversations (SIC) with patients and families. The SIC Program offers HCP a structure and language to talk with seriously ill patients about their values and goals as part of shared decision making.

Learning Objectives

  • Appreciate the benefits of serious illness conversations
  • Discuss the evidence for the Serious Illness Conversation (SIC) Program
  • Identify key elements of the SIC Guide
  • Practise use of the SIC Guide
  • Understand how SIC fits into continuum of Advanced Care Planning
  • Discuss the barriers and enablers to real world implementation of the SIC Program

Completion Requirements

  • Learners have to complete all pre-course e-learning reflections, daily reflections and the course evaluation.

Pre-course 

Participants will be enrolled in our e-learning module (COMET) prior to the workshop and will be required to complete the online course before the face-to-face sessions.

Registration

Registration for 2027 is now open!

Kindly CLICK HERE for registration.

WORKSHOP FEES Fees Before GST
Doctors S$450
Nurses, MSWs & Other Healthcare Professionals S$300

2026 (venues are subject to changes)

  • 20 & 29 Oct 2026 (NCCS)

2027 (venues are subject to changes)

  • 20 & 29 Jan 2027
  • 16 & 25 Feb 2027
  • 3 & 11 Aug 2027
  • 22 & 29 Oct 2027

Timing (subjected to changes)

Day 1: 9.00am - 3.10pm, and

Day 2: 9.00am - 12.40pm

Venue

Assisi Hospice, 832 Thomson Road Singapore 574627, or

National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Blvd, Singapore 168583

Please be informed withdrawal from course must be made in writing for refund of fees.
 
Date of withdrawal
2 weeks or more before course start date: 100%
Less than 2 weeks before course start date: 50%
On or after course start date: 0%

Accreditation

Continuing education credits are available for LCPC events through the Singapore Medical Council (SMC), Singapore Nursing Board (SNB), Singapore Pharmacy Council (SPC) and Allied Health Professions Council (AHPC), subject to their respective approvals.

Upon completion of the workshop, participants can receive up to 6 CPE points from SMC/SNB/AHPC or up to 5 CPE points from SPC.

Attendees who wish to earn credits are required to sign the relevant registration form along with their CPE/CME number on the day(s) of the events.

The attendee’s registration details will be submitted after the event and credited upon receiving respective approvals.

Certification

Course participants will be awarded with an Certificate of Attendance at the end of the course*.

*The e-Certificate of Attendance will only be awarded to participants via the Learning Management System upon completion of all coursework (including assessments and evaluation)

This program is for doctors, nurses, social workers and other healthcare professionals who care for patients with serious illnesses and have a passion to learn communication skills to conduct serious illness conversations.
  • Proficiency in English
  • Ability to commit to entire workshop (Full 1.5 days at face-to-face workshop)

For more information, please contact us at lcpc@duke-nus.edu.sg or or 6516 5337 (Erisa) or 6516 1382 (Xirui)

You can also visit our course page HERE.

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