A wide range of short presentations by members of a panel on topics that may be controversial, to stimulate debate and wide participation from the audience
Updates in medical education – what you really need to know
Larry Gruppen (USA) and Athol Kent (South Africa)
Summary: The goal of this session is to provide an overview of basic principles, issues, and practices in three selected areas within medical education. The session is designed for those of us who are NOT experts but wish to gain a basic understanding of the state of the art in these areas.
Time: 1045-1245 hrs
Location: SECC
Contextualised simulation: new ways forward
Roger Kneebone (UK), F Bello (UK) and Debra Nestel (Australia)
Summary: This presentation will demonstrate new approaches to high-fidelity simulation. Building on concepts around widening access and heightening realism, the session will locate cutting edge innovation within a critical framework. Evolving concepts of Distributed Simulation (low-cost, portable yet high fidelity environments) and enhanced realism (using techniques from film and television prosthetics) for creating integrated, patient-focused yet learner-centred approaches to learning and assessment will be demonstrated.
Time: 1045-1245 hrs
Location: SECC
The Bologna Process
Madalena Patricio (Portugal)
Summary: This important development in medical education is not without controversy. It was the subject of a joint statement by AMEE, IFMSA and EMSA published earlier in the year. This session will examine the key principles underpinning the Bologna Process for medical education, identify some of the common misunderstandings and look at how the process is influencing medical education across the globe. In particular it will highlight the progress that has been made, based on the results of two AMEE-MEDINE2 Surveys conducted in 2009.
Time: 1415-1600 hrs
Location: SECC
Advances in understanding self-assessment
Joan Sargeant (Canada) and Kevin Eva (Canada)
Summary: There is increased interest internationally in studying and understanding self-assessment and how it is informed, in both education and practice. This symposium will: briefly synthesize recent research in self-assessment; highlight several key current initiatives in both research and education practice; and discuss implications for education and directions for further research.
Time: 1415-1600 hrs
Location: SECC
Team-based learning
Dean Parmelee (USA), Larry Michaelsen (USA), Sandy Cook (Singapore), Hossam Hamdy (UAE) and Toshi Yoshioka (Japan)
Summary: Team-based learning is an active learning strategy using the power of small groups in large class settings with as few as one instructor. This symposium will present the key components of the strategy, highlight the challenges in its best-practice implementation, and generate discussion. The moderators have been instrumental in the promulgation of the strategy in medical education, and the panel participants have pioneered its implementation in very different medical education cultures.
Time: 1630-1800 hrs
Location: SECC
Assessing the future healthcare professional – what is best practice?
John Norcini (USA) and Barry Issenberg (USA)
Summary: At the 14th Ottawa Conference to be held in May in Miami, progress made with assessment over the past 25 years will be reviewed, current good practice highlighted and trends and developments over the next 25 years will be predicted. A set of Consensus Statements and Recommendations relating to assessment of competence in the healthcare professions will be a product of the Conference. The aim of this session at AMEE 2010 is to highlight the key conclusions of the Ottawa Conference and to discuss some of the more controversial aspects.
Time: 1630-1800 hrs
Location: SECC
The student-teacher relationship in the 21st Century: customer or partner in learning?
Matthew Gwee (Singapore), Carol Elam (USA) and Paul de Roos (Netherlands)
Summary: The seemingly simple and straightforward student-teacher relationship (S-T R) as perceived by students and teachers, can have a profound impact on how teachers teach and, therefore, on how students learn. A common perception of the S-T R is that the student is a customer (or client) of the teacher, whereas a less commonly held view is that the student is a partner-in-learning with the teacher. The symposium will critically examine the implications of the two contrasting views in the context of 21st century medical education.
Time: 1100-1300 hrs
Location: SECC
Medical student education in the 21st Century – a new Flexnerian era?
Paul Hemmer (USA)
Summary: As we mark the 100th anniversary of the Flexner report which revolutionized the process of medical education, there is again concern that we face a critical need for change in the process of medical education in order to meet the needs of learners, teachers, and patients. In this session we will discuss the forces that are shaping the current debate surrounding medical education, with a focus on proposed solutions.
Time: 1100-1300 hrs
Location: SECC
Future research in medical education
Charlotte Ringsted (Denmark)
Summary: In this symposium a panel of researchers will delineate some essential areas in need of further research in medical education in order to contribute to the training of the future doctor. Further ideas and topics will be invited from the audience and discussed with the panel.
Time: 1415-1600 hrs
Location: SECC
Faculty development and keeping up to date in education in the healthcare professions
Yvonne Steinert (Canada)
Summary: Preparing healthcare professionals for teaching is regarded as essential for enhancing teaching effectiveness. This session will examine the changing role of the teacher in healthcare professional education and will look at the range of strategies that can contribute to an effective staff development programme. It will highlight newer approaches to helping teachers to keep up to date with the rapid developments in education. The conclusions from the session will help to prepare the ground for the International Conference on Faculty Development in the Health Professions to be held in Toronto in May 2011.
Time: 1415-1600 hrs
Location: SECC
Needs and Demands of International Accreditation in Medical Education
VIII Iberoamerican Session
Summary: To Follow
Time: 1415-1600 hrs
Location: SECC
The doctor we are educating for the future
Stefan Lindgren (Denmark)
Summary: Both rich and poor societies need to understand the tasks that can be performed by doctors only, to plan their health workforces efficiently. Once this role of the doctor is specified, the content and process of education to produce a person equipped to fulfil that role can be defined.
Time: 1630-1800 hrs
Location: SECC
The future of the basic sciences in the training of the future healthcare professional
Frazier Stevenson (USA) and Peter de Jong (Netherlands), International Association of Medical Science Educators
Summary: A hundred years ago the Flexner Report highlighted the importance of the basic sciences in medical education. The contributions of the basic sciences to a medical education programme and their place in both the undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum is again attracting attention. In an era of hyperspecialized faculty, who will knit together medicine with its scientific underpinnings? The topic has featured prominently at AMEE conferences in recent years, and at other meetings in medical education, notably IAMSE. This session organised by IAMSE will explore trends in basic science education in the healthcare professions and their role in the training of the future healthcare professional.
Time: 1630-1800 hrs
Location: SECC
The curriculum and training the future healthcare professional
Cees van der Vleuten (Netherlands) and Trudie Roberts (UK)
Summary: This symposium will look at how well present curricula are preparing the doctor for the future and who has a legitimate stake in dictating what goes into those curricula. We will invite various stakeholders from the health care system to present their ideas on the competencies expected of today’s doctor. The consequences for undergraduate and postgraduate training programs will be discussed with a forum of senior medical school faculty from around the globe and with the audience.
Time 1030-1200 hrs
Location: SECC
Postgraduate Education and Continuing Professional Development
Stuart Macpherson (UK)
Summary: Postgraduate medical education and continuing professional development have become issues of global significance, appeal and dimensions. This session will explore current trends internationally, and how postgraduate education and CPD can best contribute to the training of the doctor of the future. Issues discussed will include the expected learning outcomes and competencies, the application of new learning technologies, the use of performance-based and on-the-job assessment, the role of the trainer or tutor and the problem of the under-performing doctor.
Time: 1030-1200 hrs
Location: SECC