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University of Virginia Medical School wins national diversity award
Nov 16, 2017
The School of Medicine has received the 2017 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity Magazine.
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Tomlin Paul - Building social accountability in medical education
Nov 12, 2017
Dr Tomlin Paul is the recently appointed Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of the West Indies and discusses the need for and development of social accountability within medical education
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SIME Webinar - Making the implicit explicit: Theories informing simulation-based education – Part 2
Nov 10, 2017
Presented by Nancy McNaughton, Walter Eppich & Ryan Brydges
Friday 10th November 2017 14:00 GMT
This free webinar follows on from Part 1 on 18th October 2017
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Medical Education and All That Jazz
Oct 26, 2017
McGill University will be hosting a second edition of their 2016 course Medical Education and All That Jazz, 2nd-5th July 2018.
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Call for submissions to the 9th Asian Medical Education Association
Oct 18, 2017
The Asian Medical Education Association (AMEA) and the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong are very pleased to invite friends and colleagues to join the 9th AMEA Symposium cum Frontiers in Medical and Health Sciences Education 2017 on December 14 - 16, 2017.
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FREE AMEE Simulation Committee (SIME) Webinar
Oct 16, 2017
Making the implicit explicit: Theories informing simulation-based education - Part 1:
Debra Nestel, Gabriel Reedy & Peter Dieckmann from the AMEE Simulation Committee (SIME) will be presenting the first of a two part webinar series on Wednesday 18th October 2017 at 14:00 BST (British Summer Time)
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American Medical Association: Students use design thinking to fix broken care processes
Oct 12, 2017
American Medical Association: Health system failures contribute to physician burnout, but medical education often does a poor job of giving students the tools they will need to make meaningful changes as physicians.
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Arizona State University: ASU professor advocates for human trafficking education in nursing schools
Oct 11, 2017
Taking her message on the road, Arizona State University College of Nursing and Health Innovation Assistant Professor Samantha Calvin spoke at the 14th Annual Human Trafficking and Social Justice Conference in Ohio last month.
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