Training
Beyond forms and software. Better clinical decisions.
Most emergency care planning fails because the document is too vague, difficult to trust, or not usable when a real crisis happens.
My Emergency Plan® trains clinicians to create clear, scenario-specific emergency plans that families, care homes, GPs, paramedics, out-of-hours clinicians and hospital teams can actually use and trust.
The aim is simple:
Give vulnerable patients a clear voice before the crisis, not after it has already begun.
What clinicians are trained to do
Licensed clinicians are trained to lead sensitive conversations and create practical emergency plans for real-world scenarios, taking account of the patient’s wishes, frailty, prognosis, family context and the medical realities of different emergency pathways.
They are trained to help patients and families understand:
When hospital care may help, and where its limits may be
What treatment at home may involve in different community settings
What different escalation decisions mean
How wishes, capacity, best interests and clinical judgement come together
This is not about completing another form.
It is about improving one of the hardest areas of healthcare decision-making, in a gap that sits between specialties. My Emergency Plan® training is designed to bridge that gap.
Who do we train?
This work requires clinicians to draw on a breadth of clinical experience.
Dr Matthew Gloudeman’s model draws on an unusually broad range of clinical experience across more than 10 hospital and community specialties, including areas that are often separated in traditional training pathways.
To become a My Emergency Plan® certified clinician, doctors will normally need meaningful experience across at least four of eight core areas::
A&E or urgent care
General practice
Palliative care
Old age psychiatry
Geriatric medicine
Acute medicine
General surgery
Orthopaedics
This threshold matters because emergency care planning sits between hospital, community, mental health, palliative care, urgent care and surgical decision-making.
The clinician must understand not only what a patient wants, but what each emergency pathway may actually mean.
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