Cardiac Supportive Care Course

Topics:

• Living with heart failure and advanced cardiac illnesses in the 21st century
• Heart failure and other serious cardiac diseases – disease trajectory and pharmacological treatment options
• Optimising Medications in cardiac patients
• Device therapies, Heart Transplant and Health coaching in treatment of heart failure and other serious cardiac illnesses
• Nutrition in heart failure and advanced cardiac disease
• Common symptoms and case studies on symptom control in heart failure and advanced cardiac disease
• Care of the Dying Patient
• Serious Illness Conversations with heart failure/advanced cardiac patients and families
• Living with heart failure and advanced cardiac disease – Psychosocial aspects
• Ethical Considerations in Treatment Decisions

Upcoming Run:
e-learning: 6 May to 6 June 2025.
Face-to-Face teaching sessions: 21 – 23 May 2025, 8am to 5pm.

The course will officially start on 6 May 2025 with the e-learning portion. Participant is required to complete the online coursework before the teaching sessions, done at your own pace.

Registration
Registration for the course will begin in February 2025.

Please register here.

Registration will close on 11 April 2025, or when maximum capacity has been attained, whichever earlier. Successful registrants will be notified via email.

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Venue: National Heart Centre Singapore, 5 Hospital Drive, Singapore 169609

Course Fee: SGD 839.30 inclusive of 9% GST

Overseas applicants are requested to contact us before registration.

This course is highly subsidized and participants may have to bear the full course fee of S$ 839.30 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.

Refund Policy
Date of withdrawal	%
2 weeks or more before course start date	100%
Less than 2 weeks before course start date	50%
On or after course start date	0%

• 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.
  
  

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

*The e-Certificate of Completion 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, MSWs, 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