PRIME UK / Europe Conference, March 2025

‘Shaping PRIME for the future’

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A critical perspective on humanising healthcare education

Professor Louise Younie

General Practitioner and Professor of Medical Education at Queen Mary University of London
Saturday 29^th March / 9.30 am

The consultation involves a technical clinical dimension (knowledge of disease, diagnosis, and treatment) and a human dimension (e.g. witnessing suffering, compassion, and the therapeutic alliance). In this presentation I will suggest attending to the human dimension is an integral part of the consultation and requires valuing patient lived experience, development of curiosity and epistemic humility. Beyond this, the human dimension calls us to consider patient trauma, poverty and injustice as relevant to health.

Although the human dimension is central to person-centred care, curricular reforms for the human dimension fail in the face of the hidden curriculum where future doctors are assimilated into a culture of objectivity and face increasingly neoliberal and market driven workplaces.

Is spirituality and/or religion good for us?
An introduction to spirituality/health research and its implications

Dr Alistair Appleby

MBChB (Edin), MRCGP, PhD

Sunday 30^th March / 9.00 am

Over the last 40 years considerable effort has gone into investigating whether spirituality and / or religion is associated with health outcomes. This interactive seminar will explore the considerable research base that links spirituality / religion with health.
The seminar will illuminate areas including:

What do we know from research?
What is unclear?
What is still to find out?

In doing so we will touch on what sort of truth research can be expected to deliver and our attitudes and experiences towards using spirituality research in our work. At the end of the seminar you will have a clearer idea of the importance and nature of spirituality/religion research and how to apply this.

You can find Alistair on Linkedin / @alistair-appleby and (reluctantly) X/twitter / @DrAlAppleby