Women and Children's Health education, training, and events

The Essential Knowledge for Obstetric Medicine (kcl.ac.uk) is a postgraduate module that brings together professions usually trained in silos, to enhance effective learning and ways of working.

This core module provides the opportunity for clinicians, who care for pregnant women and birthing people, to advance their knowledge of obstetric medicine in a multidisciplinary setting which encompasses medical disorders in pregnancy. Students are actively engaged via specialist lectures and interactive learning opportunities. The module draws on the clinical and academic strengths across King’s Health Partners. The module is open to all health professionals working on the ‘shop floor’ and is delivered by an expert faculty including obstetricians, anaesthetists, midwives, and advanced nurse practitioners.

The Adolescence for Clinicians: An escape room course is an innovative ‘escape-room’ format online training in communications. It aims to support effective communications with adolescents in everyday and challenging situations. The course includes simulation, group discussions, and didactic teaching. Participants gain insights into eating disorders, mental health, and social psychological issues through three pre-recorded practical scenarios.

This course is delivered online with pre-recorded course material on King’s Health Partners Learning Hub. This course is open to all clinicians who work with adolescents including junior doctors, paramedics, GPs, physicians, surgeons, specialists, paramedics, and nurses of all grades and specialty.

The course runs twice per year. For upcoming dates, please check the course webpage or enquire directly via khp-iwch@kcl.ac.uk.

The Paediatric Simulation Training – Virtual Communication study days (kingshealthpartners.org) course is designed to enable colleagues to  practice their communication skills in challenging scenarios in paediatrics. The training aims to improve the communication skills of paediatric doctors in training. This half-day training developed by the London School of Paediatrics and KHP Women and Children's Health is aimed at paediatric doctors who are international medical graduates and open to all paediatric doctors in training.

This course is delivered online and usually runs four times per year.

For next dates please visit our events listings.

Paediatric Communication Skills (kingshealthpartners.org).

Our Research Seminar Series is jointly hosted by King’s Health Partners Women and Children’s Health and King College London Department of Women and Children’s Health

To hear about the next event sign up to our Mailing list or suggest topics via khp-iwch@kcl.ac.uk  

Past recordings are available to watch.

The group, chaired by Dr Anita Banerjee, including KHP partners and external organisations, had been convened in September 2023, as an opportunity to discuss approaches for simulation training, share expertise and learn from each other. We meet every two months with an aim to co-produce a meaningful strategy to identify gaps and support each other with the simulation delivery for women and children. 

The recent in-person workshop, brought together simulation leads across Guy's and St Thomas' FT, King's College London NHS FT, South London and Maudsley NHS FT, Maudsley Learning, and King’s College London Simulation and Interactive Learning Centres (SaIL), and received great feedback as we started new conversations and a shared vision in supporting our fellow partners with the simulation delivery. The next stages will see the co-ordination and development of a live directory for the partners to feed into. For enquiries, please contact the Education and Training team khp-iwch@kcl.ac.uk.

Skills clinic are monthly online learning sessions open to staff working in peadiatric services across KHP. The aim of these talks is to share information on how to plan and conduct research related activities, highlight support available and empower researchers and research enthusiasts take the next steps in their research career.

To hear about the next event sign up to our Mailing list via khp-iwch@kcl.ac.uk.