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

Upcoming Run:
e-learning: 4 August to 4 September 2026
Face-to-Face teaching sessions: 19 to 21 August 2026, 8am to 5pm.

The course will officially start on 4 August 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 for the course will begin in June 2026.

Interested learners may write in to lcpc@duke-nus.edu.sg for queries, or subscribe to our mailing list to receive updates on workshops, courses, and other activities https://www.duke-nus.edu.sg/lcpc/about-us/contact-lcpc

Venue: to be updated

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 are required to sign the attendance form on the day(s) of the event. CPE Points will be submitted by the Training Provider after the event.

• 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, 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