AMSE ANNUAL CONFERENCE BARCELONA 2008

 

PROGRAMME AND PRESENTATIONS

 

THURSDAY 5 JUNE

 

09:00

Pre-Conference workshop.

By members of the MEDINE Quality Task force

 

European specifications of the WFME global standards for quality improvement in medical education

11:00

Pre-Conference workshop

 

By Terence Stephenson, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham, Ms Alison Johns, Head of Leadership, Governance and Management at the Higher Education Funding Council for England, and Professor David Gordon, President of AMSE. 

 

Leadership in academic medicine

13:00

Pre-Conference workshop

 

By Mostafa Selim, Cairo University

 

Practical items for the implementation of standards at the postgraduate level

18:00

Welcome Ceremony and Opening Lecture at the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia

 

Andrzej Wojtczak – present at the Foundation of AMSE

 

From AMDE to AMSE: how we started and where are we going?

FRIDAY 6 JUNE

 

IMPLEMENTING QUALITY ASSURANCE: FROM THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION (ENQA) TO MEDICAL SCHOOLS

 

9:00

Séamus Puirséil ENQA speaker, HETAC Chief Executive (Ireland)

 

Increasing importance of quality assurance in higher education: overview

 

António Manuel Bensabat Rendas EUA speaker. Rector Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)

 

Are medical schools & programmes a challenge? (Abstract - Presentation)

 

Teresa Sanchez National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA) (Spain)

 

Standard setting and benchmarking  (Presentation)

 

Joan Viñas Rector Universitat de Lleida General Secretary of the Association of Medical Schools in Europe

 

Quality management implementation at the university (Abstract-Presentation)

11:00

Paul de Roos MEDINE Quality Task Force member and student voice

 

Quality improvement and accreditation processes - the role of students (Abstract - Presentation)

 

David Gordon AMSE President

 

Collaborations with WFME for quality improvement in medical education in Europe (Abstract - Presentation)

12:00

AMSE General Assembly

Including agreement of the new Constitution of AMSE

 

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AND ACCREDITATION OF MEDICAL SCHOOLS AND PROGRAMMES


14:30

M. Rosa Fenoll AMSE delegate in MEDINE Thematic Network, Quality Task Force co-chair

 

European specifications of the global standards for quality improvement in medical education (Abstract - Presentation)

 

Leif Christensen Copenhagen University (Denmark)

 

Survey of accreditation and quality improvement methods for medical education programmes in the European region  (Abstract - Presentation)

 

Jim McKillop for the General Medical Council, Deputy Executive Dean of Glasgow Medical School (UK)

 

Accreditation models for medical programmes in the United Kingdom (Abstract - Presentation)

 

Group discussion. Moderator: Iskender Sayek WFME representative (Turkey)

 

Identify best practices and make recommendations to implement standards for quality assurance in Medical Schools

SATURDAY 7 JUNE

 

IMPLEMENTING QUALITY ASSURANCE IN MEDICAL SCHOOLS AND PROGRAMMES


9:00

Jadwiga Mirecka Vice-president of the Accreditation Commission for Medical Universities in Poland, Jagiellonian University Medical College

 

Setting internal quality assurance systems (Abstract - Presentation)

 

Madalena Patricio President of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (Portugal)

 

Students' self-assessment: the first step for quality improvement

 

Zdravko Lackovic President of ORPHEUS - Organisation for PhD Education in Biomedicine and Health Sciences in the European System (Croatia)

 

Quality improvement in European PhD programmes in biomedicine and health sciences (Abstract)

 

Carlos Sancho Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas CIEMAT (Spain)

 

Accreditation of research laboratories according to ISO-UNE 9000-9001 (Presentation)

 

 

IMPLEMENTING QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HEALTH RESEARCH

 

 

11:00

Antoni Trilla Professor of Public Health University of Barcelona (Spain)
Member of the Accreditation Committee - Instituto de Salud Carlos
III

 

Quality assessment in biomedical research: The accreditation process for
biomedical research institutes in Spain
(Abstract - Presentation)

 

Josep Grifoll Head of quality assessment area in the Quality Assurance Agency for the University System in Catalonia (Spain)

 

Designing programmes in health sciences(Abstract - Presentation)

 

 

IMPLEMENTING QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HEALTH SYSTEMS AND SERVICES

 

 

12:00

David Marx Prague (Czech Republic)

 

Quality Assurance in health care and in medical school: parallels, similarities and differences

 

Albert Jovell President of the Spanish Forum of patients

 

Patients rights and wills to participate in EU political decisions to improve health systems (Abstract)

 

 

CERTIFICATION METHODS IN DIFFERENTS SETTINGS

 

14:30

Th.M.G. van Berkestijn, M.D. Ministry of Health Welfare and Sports, Chairman of the Foreign Degree Holders in Health Care Committee (The Netherlands)

 

 

ECFMG programme: a quality tool for incoming non-EU medical doctors to the EU? Experiences from implementing the ECFMG programme in The Netherlands (Abstract - Presentation)

 

James A. Hallock President & CEO Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (USA)

 

Records from EU Medical Schools at ECFMG programme by country (Abstract - Presentation)

 

José Peinado Speaker for the Spanish National Conference of Medical School Deans

 

The MIR examination: access  to medical practice in Spanish public health services

 

Josep Carreras Former Dean of Barcelona University Medical School (Spain)

 

Assessment of undergraduate medical education competences (Abstract - Presentation)

 

 

16:00

AMSE 2008 Conference Concluding Remarks

 

 

 

Approval of the AMSE Barcelona Declaration on Quality Assurance in the Medical School