Topics:

• Living with heart failure and advanced cardiac illnesses in the 21st century
• Disease trajectory and pharmacological treatment options in heart failure and other serious cardiac diseases
• Optimising medications in cardiac patients
• Device therapies, heart transplant and health coaching in treatment of heart failure and advanced cardiac disease
• Nutrition in heart failure and advanced cardiac disease
• Common symptoms and case studies on symptom control in cardiac patients
• Care of the dying patient with heart failure and advanced cardiac disease
• Serious Illness Conversations with heart failure and advanced cardiac patients and families
• Psychosocial aspects of patients living with heart failure and advanced cardiac disease
• Ethical considerations in treatment decisions for cardiac patients

Completion Requirements:
Learners have to complete all assessment (formative and summative assessment), daily reflections and evaluations. 

Upcoming Run
e-learning: 20 July to 20 August 2026
Face-to-Face teaching sessions: 4 to 6 August 2026, 8am to 5pm.

The course will officially start on 20 July 2026 with the e-learning portion. Participant is required to complete the online coursework before the teaching sessions, done at your own pace.

Registration
Registration is now closed. Stay tuned for 2027 intake dates!
Venue: Assisi Hospice, 832 Thomson Rd, Singapore 574627

Course Fee: SGD 850.20 inclusive of 9% GST
Overseas applicants are requested to contact us before registration.

Additional support for local doctors working in primary care
This course is eligible for the Primary Care Palliative Champions (PC2) Training Award by Singapore Hospice Council. For inquiries, please contact info@singaporehospice.org.sg. View here for more information.

This course is highly subsidised and participants may have to bear the full course fee under any of the following circumstances:
(i) Withdrawal from the course on or after course start date
(ii) Failure to fulfil a minimum attendance of 80% for the teaching sessions
(iii) Failure to complete and pass all prescribed coursework and assessments for the course

Withdrawal and Refund Policy
Please be informed withdrawal from course must be made in writing for refund of fees.

Accreditation
Continuing education credits are available for LCPC events through the Singapore Medical Council (SMC), Singapore Nursing Board (SNB), Singapore Pharmacy Council (SPC) and the Allied Health Professions Council (AHPC), subject to their respective approvals.

• Upon completion of the course, participants can receive up to 4 CPE points for each full day of face-to-face session from SMC, SNB, SPC and AHPC.
• Attendees who wish to earn credits are required to sign the relevant registration form along with their CPE/CME number on the day(s) of the face-to-face events.
• The attendee’s registration details will be submitted after the event and credited upon receiving respective approvals.

Certification
Course participants will be awarded with an e-Certificate of Attendance at the end of the course*.

*The e-Certificate of Attendance will only be awarded to participants who achieved at least 80% attendance for face-to-face teachings and completion of all coursework (including assessments and evaluation)

Doctors (e.g. Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, General Medicine and GPs etc.), Nurses, Pharmacists, Medical Social Workers, Transplant and Heart Failure Coordinators, Therapists.

• Current or anticipated future practice includes caring for patients living with advanced cardiac illnesses.
• Proficiency in English
• Ability to commit to the whole course