Education & Training

Commitment to Healthcare Education

As a leading player in the healthcare market, 3M is committed to providing its customers with professional and personal development training programmes for healthcare professionals, to enhance both knowledge and understanding.

We have a team of clinical and technical specialists who are experts in each of the markets we operate and support our customers through study days and hands on training. We are also increasingly offering online training for healthcare to provide a blended approach to learning.

We can also design bespoke healthcare training to fit around your specific needs. We would be happy to discuss your requirements, so please contact us.

Healthcare Training and Development Online

e-Learning

Our e-learning website enables customers to access a variety of online training resources including product demonstrations at a time convenient to them. Customers can also find out about events and collaborate with their peers through forums. Access is free, all customers need to do is register their details to be able to participate online and access the training.

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We also have a number of topic-related healthcare websites:

Academy of Casting Excellence

The Academy of Casting Excellence is an educational website individually targeted to the needs of groups such as orthopaedic technicians, podiatrists and neuro-physiotherapists, with latest product information, specialist articles, news and competitions.

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Littmann® Stethoscopes

The Littmann website offers interactive multimedia education that can help you differentiate between normal and abnormal heart and lung sounds. We also offer interactive case studies to help medical students and clinicians test their knowledge and improve diagnostic skills.

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Wound Resource Centre

Our ‘Wound Resource Centre’ is a useful online reference tool for healthcare professionals dealing with different types of wounds and provides advice and guidance on the most appropriate 3M treatment solutions.

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Sterile E Online

This is your inside source for information on sterilization best practices, education resources, standards updates and more.

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Healthcare Training and Development Offline

3M AfPP Academy

Working in partnership with the Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP), the 3M AfPP Academy offers non-clinical professional development to enable delegates to improve their leadership and communication skills, self-belief and motivation. The Academy encompasses five days of workshops delivered by professional trainers and is offered free of charge to selected applicants who are full members of AfPP.

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3M ESPE

3M ESPE, part of our oral care division, has a reputation for quality, product ingenuity, and service. ‘Espertise’ from 3M ESPE comprises courses and lectures using Key Opinion Leaders and includes learning and professional enrichment activities for dental professionals at every stage of their careers.

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3M Unitek

3M Unitek offers high value educational events and programmes in the orthodontic field both in the UK and overseas. Each course is geared to benefit our customers and improve their professional and practice development and growth.

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3M Medical Supplies

We organise a wide range of study days and workshops throughout the year to educate customers on topics relevant to their area of practice. Examples include our popular Advanced IV Study Days, which focus on infection control practices relevant to IV site care, and Casting Workshops, where the latest techniques in fracture management and functional stabilisation are demonstrated and discussed.

For more details about any of the information on this page or for details of 3M workshops and study days visit our events & exhibitions or contact us.