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In these placement-specific workshops we will explore how to approach feedback conversations with students experiencing challenges, whether due to academic or welfare concerns. Grounded in a shared “hope in practice” approach, we will share practical strategies for navigating difficult conversations, including how to raise concerns clearly and identify opportunities for support and progression. Each workshop will also be tailored to the specific context of each placement, with dedicated time to discuss placement-specific expectations, common challenges, and tutor questions. This offers an opportunity to connect with your Placement Lead and colleagues, and to focus on the issues most relevant to your own teaching practice.

How can we support medical students to design impactful, sustainable projects that really matter to the practice population? Recognising community perspectives and the inherent strengths within local communities can transform student projects at every stage, from design to evaluation. In this workshop, we will explore how to support students to design community-engaged projects that address health and wellbeing priorities and health inequalities. We will share tips for meaningful community partnership and consider how to effectively embed community perspectives.

Lead facilitator: Stephanie Powell (she/her)

Hope is the spark that ignites our hearts, even when the world seems to dim its light. Sustainable healthcare, at its core, strives to meet the health needs of today without compromising the wellbeing of future generations. In this interactive workshop, we will explore how sustainable healthcare principles can be embedded into your educational or clinical practice to cultivate hope—for students, patients, and healthcare teams alike.

Lead facilitator: Dr Neha Ahuja

We have used computers to support clinical decision making for decades. What can modern AI do that is fundamentally different? And if AI can clinically reason, how does this influence how we practice, how we develop our own practice and how we teach students? Can AI even help bring joy into practicing and teaching medicine?

Lead facilitator: Dr Viral Thakerar (he/him)

This workshop is fully booked

Coaching approaches involve working in partnership with people to support them to explore possibilities and identify and address what matters to them. In this interactive, experiential workshop, you will become familiar with some key coaching principles and skills and explore how these could be applied in your own educational and healthcare contexts with students and patients, as well as more broadly.

Lead facilitator: Professor Arti Maini

General practice is shaped by a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world, in which system pressures, limited resources, inequity and the wider realities of patients’ lives shape both the reasons patients seek healthcare consultations for and the complexities GPs must navigate in providing care. Within this environment, there are also moments of acute pressure that require GPs to lead immediately, think clearly, and act decisively.

In this session, you will use “Hope” alongside a leadership framework to explore how to lead under pressure in the VUCA realities of general practice. Using authentic GP cases, you will draw on your own judgement, values, and experience to turn uncertainty and complexity into clear, purposeful action.

We will also explore how this approach can support student learning by making decision-making explicit, modelling leadership in practice, and creating opportunities for reflection.

Lead facilitator: Dr Argita Zalli

This workshop explores how the language of hope shapes equity in Primary Care education. Using examples from everyday clinical and teaching practice, participants will explore the power of affirming, person-centred and inclusive language in enhancing equitable ‑experiences for patients, peers, and learners, leaving with practical strategies to use in their own settings.

Lead facilitator: Dr Mohammed Abdu