Bookings are now live for the world’s only empathy training course aimed at empathic healthcare teachers.
Educating for Empathy in Healthcare is set to return in 2026 and will be delivered by some of the world’s best empathic healthcare experts to provide clinicians, educators and academics with the skills they need to develop empathy teaching in their own settings.
The three-day course will be delivered by the University of Leicester’s Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare which is pioneering a new approach to medical education and training that places empathy at the heart of healthcare.
Centre Director Professor Jeremy Howick said: “A growing body of evidence shows empathic healthcare leads to better outcomes for patients and helps healthcare practitioners to cope with the pressures of fast-paced healthcare systems. This is why we’re on a mission to equip the NHS with empathic, compassionate, and resilient healthcare practitioners.
“Our pioneering Educating for Empathy in Healthcare training course will help attendees to expand their existing abilities and develop the skills they need to help drive forward the teaching of empathic healthcare.
“They will also learn how they can support others to recognise and overcome the barriers and challenges to embedding empathy where they work.
“Most importantly we’re creating a global community of empathy educators to share this vital learning.
“This course is the only one in the world that we’re aware of so anyone who is interested in teaching empathy – or enhancing their teaching of empathy – should not miss out on this event.”
Educating for Empathy in Healthcare will include insightful plenary sessions with top empathy educators and researchers and opportunities to engage with expert facilitators in small groups.
It will take place in Leicester from Monday, April 20, to Wednesday, April 22, 2026.
To find out more about the event watch a video of Educating for Empathy in Healthcare 2024 at
