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Most multicultural training models concern the educational outcomes of individual trainees who have received digestible “units” of multicultural education or “cultural competence” training. Few have taken a critical perspective on how an individual trainee must learn, change his/her behavior, and sustain that behavioral change within a specific institutional context.

The Conference will commence on the afternoon of Wednesday June 23 and conclude on the evening of Friday June 25.

The programme will contain a number of plenary sessions, abstract presentations, poster presentations and workshops.  In addition to the academic stimulation, there will be a number of social events planned throughout the meeting.  

The programme theme has been designed to cover a range of topics within cancer education:

• Delivering undergraduate education


• Implementing educational pedagogy in practice

This 2 day conference in medical education to be held in Italy is sponsored by Medical Education Research Centre, University Ambrosiana; International Medical Education Program and the Medical Education Research Unit, University of Calgary. The conference is followed by a two day summer institue in medical education.

Simulation is becoming increasingly prominent in a rapidly evolving landscape of clinical education, and considerable resources are being allocated to it. Although widely used both for training and assessment, however, simulation often takes place without a clear theoretical framework.

This webinar will examine simulation at a conceptual level, exploring issues of realism, fidelity and access. Drawing on the Imperial group's work with hybrid simulation, the presentation will argue that simulation must be firmly rooted in the real world of clinical care.

This conference is a unique experience with excellent opportunities for networking. A wide range of participants attend the Graylyn conference, from deans of medical education to professors and technology administrators.

The deadline for submissions of short communications, conference workshops, secrets of success, AMEE Fringe and poster abstracts is fast appoaching for the AMEE 2010 Conference in Glasgow. Ensure you have your submissions in by 12th March deadline.
 

Every field needs new ideas in order to retain its vitality. Similarly, creativity is important for the growth of individuals and institutions. There are personal and institutional strategies to promote new approaches to learning, teaching and administrative tasks. They can work even when difficult-to-influence environmental factors have a stifling effect. Everyone has the potential to be creative, but producing innovations requires work and courage to change. This webinar will cover the following topics:
• What is creativity?

Traditionally, high academic ability has been the major, if not the only, criterion for selecting medical students. But a good doctor requires more than academic ability. This webinar will describe the basis of a comprehensive model for selecting medical students on a range of criteria including academic achievement, general cognitive ability, aspects of personality and interpersonal skills.

Unfortunately due to technical problems the webinar by Prof. dr. Tim Dornan - Maastricht University, The Netherlands and University of Manchester, UK, entitled," Experience based learning. How medical students learn in workplaces" has been cancelled.  This event will be re-scheduled. All registrants will be contacted and advised of the new arrangements. The re-scheduled event will also be available for others to attend. Click here to keep informed on this and future events.

The Mexican Association of Medical Faculties and Schools (AMFEM) extends you the invitation to be part of the II International Congress of Medical Education and to the I International Congress of Medical Education Simulation.

Considering that in these globalized times, communication is fundamental, and the congress has the objective of developing a space for the exchange of concepts on academical aspects, teaching methods, evaluation on the teaching of medicine and educative investigation. They will also open a space for the laboral perspective,

‘Women and Health: today's evidence, tomorrow's agenda' - the recent report published by the WHO - spells out the calamity of women's health across the globe. Climate Change will certainly exacerbate the current situation, with the most vulnerable population being women and children from the developing world. Health is intrinsically linked to environmental change and now is the time to take action.

The date has just been announced for the NHS National Genetics Education and Development Centre’s third biennial conference for health professional educators – “Bridging the Gaps: Making Genetics Teaching Clinically Relevant” - 21^st September 2010 at the ICC in Birmingham, UK. Further details have not yet been published but will be available from www.geneticseducation.nhs.uk.

The Wilson Centre is proud to continue its support of health professions qualitative research by offering Qualitative Research in Depth.
Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their research programs and grapple with challenges, potentials, controversies and diverse perspectives of qualitative inquiry. 
The Atelier Wilson Centre Qualitative Research Program is led by several of the world’s most respected health professions education researchers.
If you are interested in attending the Atel

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The International Journal of Medical Education (IJME) is a peer-reviewed, online, international, open-access journal publishing original research relevant to medical and clinical education free of charge

 This PPT self-paced tutorial with augmented text (embedded detailed descriptions when hovering with a mouse) is a great resource created by Dr. Hart from the University of Arkansas.

For those educators who are concerned about the materials they create, or about using materials created by others, this tutorial will give you a nice overview of the basics regarding copyrights.

The Annual Researching Medical Education Conference 2010 is a day of workshops and seminars organised by the RMLP network, the WLE and ASME.

By bringing together the individuals and institutions interested and responsible for the selection of medical students and doctors the conference will seek to:

• Identify common principles implicitly and/or explicitly employed in the design, operation, interpretation, and use of selection processes for the different stages in a medical career


• Provide an overview of current practice for the three key stages of selection in medicine in the UK


• Critique current practice with a view to defining important areas for further research

Registration is now open for Southern Illinois University School of Medicine's annual Training Standardized Patients for Use in Teaching and Assessment workshop in late April.  The brochure and electronic registration form can be found on the following website (symposia listed by date).  Registration is limited, so if interested, please register early.  If you have any questions about the program, feel free contact Linda Morrison at the lmorrison@siumed.edu.  For registration questions, contact Judy Harbison

The Games & Simulation for Healthcare online Library and Database has recently become publicly available. This website aims to provide a portal and network to meet the needs of clinicians, researchers and educators in the healthcare community who want to integrate games and simulation into their scholarship and patient care strategy.  This resource also welcomes healthcare consumers, advocates, and others interested in patient and clinician education, and clinical research taking advantage of games and simulation-based learning.

eLearning is playing an increasingly important role and is now part of mainstream developments in medical education. There remain major tensions, however, in what we as educators provide for students and how students use technology. Both teachers and students need new competancies if they are to maximise the use of technology for teaching and learning. The emergent use of social networks and mobile and other technologies, for eaxmple, is challenging our concepts as to how students learn and our role as teachers.

The early registration dealine for the Ottawa Conference in Miami 2010 is on 14th February 2010. There are also a limited number of rooms still available, which have been reserved at the Hyatt Conference hotel. Book now to avoid disappointment.

The first three MedEdWorld synchronous transnational collaborative learning events are scheduled for January 2010. These events take place on 14th January, A Problem with a Patient with Shoulder Pain, 21st Jaunary, Fingers & Thumbs - forensic identification from anatomy of the hand, 28th January, The Acutley Breathless Patient. For further details on these events please go to the 'Collaborative Working & Learning' button on the left hand side of the screen.

Three features in the November 2009 edition of Medical Teacher Vol 31, Issue 11, reflect the growth of interest in undergraduate medical teaching in rural or remote settings.

These three features are available to view on MedEdWorld.

1. From medicine's margins - Why all the interest in rural and remote education by David Snadden. P967-968

2. Using Rural and remote settings in the undergraduate medical curriculum: AMEE Guide 47. P969-983

Registration is now open for the UK's biggest and most exciting Paediatrics and Child Health Annual Conference (Spring Meeting).

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Dr Madawa Chandratilake, the Research Officer of the Centre for Medical Education, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK, has been working on professionalism for his doctoral project. He is being supervised by Sean McAleer and Dr. John Gibson, who are members of the Dundee University academia. As a part of this project he is conducting a survey to study the health professionals’ views on professionalism. Dr Chandratilake invites you to take part in this survey.

Have you ever wondered what medical education is like in other parts of the world ? Have you ever wanted to tell others about your country's approach to medical education ? Have you felt the need to share the opportunities and challenges set by your country with others ? Would you benefit from sharing your difficulties in Medical Education ? The Medical Teacher series " Medical Education around the World" can provide an answer to all of these questions.  

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Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings (ALPS), a collaborative programme between five Yorkshire Universities, has won the international 'Innovation Award' in the Tertiary, FE & HE category at the 2009 Handheld Learning Awards.  The award was given for ALPS’ work on a mobile assessment and e-portfolio system to support Health and Social Care students on work-based practice.

Recently launched, this website aims at increasing dialogue and visibility of topics germaine to those interested in healthcare exchange between the US and Japan. Major areas include Medical Education, Medical English, Public Health, and international publications.

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The Australian Learning and Teaching Council announced the recipient of the 2009 Australian Awards for University Teaching. The awards, worth $25,000 each, recognise the nation's top university teachers and most outstanding programs and services aimed at improving the quality of student learning.

In the category - Innovation in Curricula, Learning and Teaching - the University of Melbourne received an award for their programme - Beyond Serendipity: Structuring Early Clinical Skills Learning for Medical Students.

This large group session chaired by Larry Gruppen and Athol Kent has proved popular at recent AMEE conferences. It is intended to provide non experts with a quick overview and orientation to key issues and topics in medical education. Three topics have been addressed at each meeting. Recent subjects include providing feedback, simulation, faculty development, assessing skills, e-portfolios and integrating basic and clinical sciences.

The attached document briefly describes an introductory session on strategies for enhanced observation and learning in a first year cell biology/histology course.  These strategies for enhancing visual observation might also prove useful for other medical school courses ,e.g. anatomy, microbiology, pathology and radiology. The impact of early and continuous training in visual observation on students' performance in physical diagnosis and patient care still needs to be determined.

SUBMITTED BY: Norma Saks

The ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN conference is a key annual networking event for the international e-learning and technology-supported learning and training industry. It attracts and brings together experts and high-level decision makers from education, business, and government sectors from around the world.

Professor John Collins has been appointed as Chair of Medical Education England’s (MEE) formal evaluation of the two-year medical Foundation Programme.

Professor Collins is Visiting Professor, Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford and Visiting Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford.

Professor Yvonne Helen Carter Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Warwick and Dean of Warwick Medical School, born 16/4/59 died 20/10/09 of breast cancer.

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The All Together Better Health conferences are the leading international interprofessional health and social care symposia. The All Together Better Health conferences are supported by InterEd, the international association for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice - a not for profit association.

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John Rees has started a new Forum on Learning in the outpatient setting. Take a look and and add your own thoughts or experience.

Details of the four seminars on evolving theory in interprofessional education funded by the UK ESRC can be found at http://ihcs.bournemouth.ac.uk/etipe   Plans for  future collaborative work and further meetings will be posted on the website. If interested please email hsc@bournemouth.ac.uk

Throughout the year 2009, the Department of Medical Education (DME) at the University of Illinois at Chicago has celebrated three anniversaries: the 50^th anniversary of the founding of the department; the 30^th anniversary of the department’s collaboration with the World Health Organization; and the 10^th anniversary of the MHPE Summer Conference.

Now is the time to get 10% discount off this Third Edition of the highly-praised A Practical Guide for Medical Teachers which continues to provide a bridge between theoretical aspects of medical education and the practical delivery of enthusiastic teaching.

At the NBME 2009 Annual meeting, Ruth-Marie Fincher, chair of the committee awarded John J. Norcini PhD the 2009 John P Hubbard Award. The award is given to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the pursuit of excellence in the field of evaluation in medicine. Dr Fincher stated " John Norcini has made exceptional contributions to the field of measurement and evaluation in both medical education and education in general.

ESME – Essential Skills in Medical Education

Facilitators: Stewart Mennin (Course Director) and Teri McCarty (University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, USA)

The AMEE annual conference is now established as the leading international conference for everyone with an interest in medical education. Over 2000 participants from 81 countries attended the meeting in Malaga 2009.

The conference is intended for all interested in medical and healthcare professions education - teachers, students, deans, administrators and researchers.

The Ottawa conferences have established themselves as the leading international conference on the assessment of competance in the healthcare professions.

The 14th Ottawa Conference to be held in Miami is a special conference to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Ottawa Conferences. The conference will:

• review progress made over the past 25 years


• highlight current good practice


• identify the trends and possible developments over the next 25 years