CAPHIA HACKATHON

Theme: Reducing vaping harms in young people

November 4-6, 2025 | Gadigal Land, The School of Public Health, University of Technology Sydney

This event brings together current and future leaders to reduce vaping harms in young people by leveraging public health approaches with design thinking principles.

Vaping harms was chosen as our theme because this issue disproportionately affects our youth. Young people are being targeted by bad commercial actors who profit at the expense of the health of our future leaders.

Hackathon Challenges:

Public Health student teams will choose one of the following challenges to collaboratively investigate, analyse and build a solution to contribute to reducing vaping harms in young people.

Full details here

BEYOND BORDERS:

The Role of Health Educators in Advancing Equity

November 7, 2025 |

Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences,

Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland

BACKGROUND

Please join us for a hybrid professional development event hosted by the Learning and Teaching Unit in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland.

This free scholarship of teaching and learning symposium will bring together experts from diverse health science disciplines, with a focus on equity in education, rural health and global education.

Poster and presentation abstract submissions are welcome.

Please submit your abstract through this link

Submission deadline is midnight Monday 8th September, 2025

To register your interest in attending the symposium please use this link

More than the individual: transforming feedback cultures

November 11, 2025 | Deakin Downton, Vic, or Online

Despite best efforts, many feedback practices remain far from ideal. For decades, higher and professional education has addressed the challenge of practically changing feedback through educator workshops and training. More recently, training has also encompassed learners with the promotion of feedback literacy skills. But little appears to make much of a difference to on-the-ground feedback experiences in medical education.

One possible response is to shift attention beyond individual learners and teachers to consider the social and the contextual construction of feedback. A five year multi-phase qualitative project investigated the role of feedback cultures in the contrasting contexts of surgical and intensive care medical training. This talk presents findings, including culture-specific feedback strategies and insights into the key question of how to enhance feedback in less than ideal circumstances.

Join us in person at Deakin Downtown or online, on Tuesday 11 November to hear CRADLE's Professor Margaret Bearman discuss this perennial challenge for practical feedback change.

More information and to register:

• Full details here

SAVE THE DATE!

Where’s the Patient’s Voice in Health Professional Education 20 years on?

November 12-15, 2025 | Marriott Pinnacle, Vancouver, BC Canada

BACKGROUND

This is the 3rd conference and will look at the progress that has been made since the 2015 Vancouver Statement.

DESCRIPTION

The conference is about practice, innovation and theory that embeds the patient/client voice in health and social care education. It is an opportunity to share examples of how health and social care education be enriched by patient involvement. Over three days, participants will present examples of collaborations between educators and patient/community groups that bring the authentic and autonomous voices and lived experiences of patients into the education of current and future health and social care professionals.

TOPICS

Conference topics will focus on patient/community involvement in health and social care education and may include:

• Patients as teachers
• Involving patients in interprofessional/ team-based education
• Outcomes of patient involvement
• Recognition and support for patient/community educators
• Approaches to increasing diversity of patients involved in education
• Accreditation standards, policies and government directives, best practices for patient involvement
• Sustainability of patient involvement in challenging times
• Involvement of patients throughout the continuum of learning
• Patient and community involvement in admissions, curriculum, assessment, academic conferences, etc.
• Health advocacy, social determinants of health, cultural humility / safety
• Approaches to patient involvement from classroom to clinic, virtual and in-person
• Community-university partnerships

Full details here

SAVE THE DATE!

2025 IPECP Showcase – Innovations in interprofessional education, practice, and research

November 21, 2025 | Grafton Campus, The University of Auckland

The annual combined Auckland University of Technology and University of Auckland Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (IPECP) showcase will be hosted by The University of Auckland on Friday 21 November 2025. Further information and details will follow later in the year.

END-OF-LIFE ESSENTIALS

Supporting health professionals to provide excellence in end-of-life care

End-of-Life Essentials is a Commonwealth funded initiative, operating out of Flinders University. This program is specifically tailored for health care professionals with limited to no experience in specialist palliative care. The project offers free peer-reviewed online education modules on delivering end-of-life care for clinicians working in acute hospitals.

End-of-Life Essentials recognises that health professionals, whether in medicine, nursing, or allied health, want to provide quality end-of-life care.

Their new, free ‘Orientation to End-of-Life Care’ education modules assist undergraduate students, new staff, and experienced practitioners working across Australia hospitals to gain valuable insights into this vital area of practice.

Whether you’re teaching future clinicians or inducting new team members, these 3 time-efficient modules support meaningful, compassionate care in every setting.

The modules include:

1. Recognising Dying - Understand how to recognise when a patient is approaching end of life, common trajectories and the patient’s perspective of dying.

2. Imminent Death - Identify the signs of imminent death and learn how to support patients and families with compassionate clinical care.

3. Communication and Decision-Making – Improve how to communicate and collaborate with patients, families, and your broader healthcare team.

Bringing clarity and confidence to delivering patient-centred end-of-life care.

Full details here