Training & Staff Development
Raisa Gorbachev Scholarship
The Raisa Gorbachev Foundation is working with the Tushinskaya Trust to create a scholarship for a paediatric oncologist from Russia to come to train in the UK, called the Raisa Gorbachev Scholarship.
Leading UK paediatric oncology units will host two children’s oncologists from Russia to observe and learn. This will not only encourage collaboration and best practice sharing between our partners, this scheme aims to foster and develop the use of international standards across borders.
Dr Timur Valiev was the first doctor to complete a placement thanks to the Raisa Gorbachev Scholarship, which allows Russian doctors to spend three months at leading paediatric units in London.
Dr Valiev said: “I spent every minute absorbing all the information I could gain from every event, meeting and conference held at the hospital. I was thankful for being allowed to be there and witness the world’s best at Great Ormond Street Hospital."
Bereavement counsellors
The Foundation is proud to sponsor Marie Curie Bereavement Counsellors. Few life events have greater impact on a child than the death of someone they love. Children can cope with their grief much more effectively if they are helped to understand what has happened to their loved one, why it has happened and what it means for the future. Marie Curie Children and Young Person Support Workers use a range of techniques to encourage open communication in the family and help children understand what they are feeling. This is crucial to help guide them through the traumatic but necessary process of grieving.
Nurse training
Working in partnership with the Teenage Cancer Trust and the Florence Nightingale Foundation, the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation has set up nursing scholarships for three years, starting in 2012. These enable nurses to travel and study best practice in cancer care for teenagers and young adults.
Development of palliative care - Training & Collaboration
Palliative care for children globally is in its infancy. In partnership with leading charities in Russia and the Former Soviet Union
In 2010 we provided funding for the training of a Russian doctor on a distance learning course at Cardiff University in palliative care. This will encourage the development, understanding and training of palliative care in Russia.
We have also funded the training of two Palliative Care Consultants in Belarus. Once trained their primary role will be to offer training and guidance to doctors, hospital directors and health departments throughout Belarus and in the setting up of hospices, home hospice teams or palliative care units. Two doctors are receiving training in Minsk and will be coming to the UK to visit hospices, spend time with palliative care specialists and attend short training courses. From September 2012 to June 2013 these doctors will be enrolled in the Distance Learning Diploma in Palliative Medicine at Cardiff University.
The Foundation encourages collaboration and contact between the partners we fund making sure that every project has the greatest possible reach and impact
