St Clare Hospice has been officially designated as a University of Cambridge Teaching Hospice.
The West Essex hospice will now welcome in Cambridge medical students, thanks to proposals made by Dr Stephen Barclay, senior lecturer in palliative care at the university.
On the other side, the hospices medical director Dr John Zeppetella and depute medical director Dr Qamar Abbas will regularly teach at the university’s Clinical School.
Dr Abbas said: “Our role as a Teaching Hospice, and as senior clinical tutors, involves teaching around 15 days per year at the Clinical School, which is located in Addenbrooke’s University Hospital, on a series of four topics throughout the year. "Dr John Zeppetella and I teach on symptom management, care of the dying, ethical issues and bereavement issues.
"As a Teaching Hospice we will receive twelve University of Cambridge Medical Students on placement this year, as they finish their fifth year of studying and after their exams, so that they gain some clinical experience at the Hospice before starting their careers.”
For more information for clinical professionals about the services and partnership opportunities
with St Clare Hospice, visit: stclarehospice.org.uk/care/health-professionals
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