{"id":11,"date":"2022-09-18T11:46:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T10:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/victoriahewitt\/?p=11"},"modified":"2022-09-18T11:46:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T10:46:56","slug":"education-to-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/victoriahewitt\/2022\/09\/18\/education-to-advocacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Education to advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the past decade I have been teaching palliative care to professional colleagues from all over the world in an online MSc programme at Newcastle University<\/a>. Our programme has always been online – quite revolutionary 15 years ago and certainly before covid entered our lives – so we have always benefitted from contributions from international students. Soon after I began teaching the Pain Management module, I realised that the prevalent UK-centric approach simply wasn’t appropriate when so many of my students simply didn’t have access to medicines and services which we consider essential<\/a> to good palliative care. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer was to adopt learning designs that were participatory and socially-constructed, situated in meaningful clinical contexts and incorporating virtual spaces to share stories and learn from each other. In these spaces I heard stories about palliative care across the globe: some challenges we have in common, some illustrated the disparity between high- and low-income countries. Every narrative, however, seemed to be underpinned by a desire to do better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The majority of our students come to us with the aim of professional development, many following good or bad experiences of palliative care. As they progress through the programme, I often notice a shift away from individual development to a desire to change the system within which they, as clinicians, operate. Reflecting on this has allowed me to appreciate that as educators, we have an opportunity to equip our students – doctors, nurses, pharmacists, paramedics, occupational therapists, psychologists and other members of the healthcare community – with the knowledge and skills to become palliative care advocates in their own corners of the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To do that, I had to learn about advocacy myself and in my next post I will describe what I’ve been doing to achieve this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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