Medical students

Welcome to the St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth’s section for 4th year medical students on placement from Peninsula Medical School. This page is designed to help you understand and access resources relevant to your attachment here. This includes important induction and contact information, links to useful resources to help broaden your understanding of holistic palliative care and also the relevant links for your e-learning and clinical cases that you are required to complete during your attachment with us.
You will receive a welcome email from our Education team in the week before your attachment, detailing the placement timetable and other important information. If for any reason you have not received this please do call us on 01752 401172 and ask to speak to the Education team.

Induction information

Contact details Key contacts for students.

Induction information for Palliative Care Pathway week

Turnchapel Site Induction Information An overview and induction to assist with your first few days at St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth.

Resources

Please use this section to access the resources you will need during your placement.

Pathway specific resources

Guide to Patient Clerking Copies of this guidance can also be found on the inpatient unit in the medical students folder.

Admission Proforma Template Copies can also be found on the inpatient unit in the medical students folder. 

Pallied.com Please use this link to sign up to Pallied and complete your clinical cases by the end of the pathway weeks.

E-ELCA. Registration instructions.

ELFH Modules Please use this resource to access the required ECLA modules or refer to your induction information. 

Palliative Care Learning Resources

Palliative care formulary by South and West Devon formulary referral.

Palliative care guidelines. This website hosts the PANG Palliative Care Guidelines developed by a collaboration of UK Health organisations.

Isle of Wight Palliative Care Guidelines

Reading list Recommended reading list.

Enhancing the end of life care experience

APM GMC tomorrows doctors

APM 2014 undergraduate curriculum

APM mapping project A really useful resource mapping the curriculum learning with relevant linked resources for each topic of learning

Introduction to hospice and palliative care

What is hospice care

Future of hospice care

Light in the valley

What makes a good death

Plymouth Medical School Year 3 Special Study Unit (SSU)

Creating approaches to Advocacy for well-being Project:  Death, Culture and the Words We Choose – Breaking down Taboos

Eight medical students, working with Community Advocates from St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth, carried out primary literature research and creative engagement which inspired them to create a questionnaire, that looked at specific languages of death and knowledge of hospices, tailored to young people from diverse cultures and backgrounds in the local area.

From analysing the data and from talking with hospice advocates and the wider multi-disciplinary team, the students developed a podcast to explore the topic of death, dying, and grief, and how different cultures express and understand these experiences. They examined the diverse languages and traditions that shape perceptions of death. They then discussed how cultures provide a contrasting perspective through which we can better understand the complexities involved.

The podcast encourages reflection and broadens understanding of how language and culture influence responses to grief and hospice care.

Through advocate insights and personal reflections, they created a space where listeners can connect with the shared experience of grief while respecting the diversity of cultural expressions around death.

Patients and carers

Patients and carers

Healthcare professionals

Healthcare professionals

End of life champions

Podcasts

Our Care

Support us

Courses

Information