Next Annual Conference
AMSE is pleased to announce that the 2011 Conference will be held in Ljubjana, Slovenia, at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana .
The subject will be the staffing of the medical school, particularly issues of recruitment, funding, and reward: how to ensure that staff of the medical school are paid at least as well as their colleagues in the health care system. The Conference website is found here.
Last Annual Conference
AMSE Conference 2010
The AMSE Conference in 2010 was held in Berlin, Germany, on 10 - 12 June 2010. This was part of the celebrations of the 300 year anniversary of the Charité. The subject was
"Internationalisation of Medical Schools"
Follow this link to the Conference website: an introduction to the Conference can be found here, and the Conference Programme can be found through this link.
The presentations from the Conference will be published on the AMSE website soon.
Recent meetings of AMSE
AMSE Conference 2009 Conference2009
In 2009, the AMSE Conference was held in Zagreb, Croatia, from 4–6 June 2009. The subject of the Conference was
"The Medical School and Postgraduate Education - Responsibility for clinical, specialist and research education"
The full programme is available here.
The Conference agreed a Declaration on the role of the medical school in postgraduate education.
The AMSE Conference 2008 in Barcelona ran from 5-7 June 2008.
The theme of the event was 'Quality Improvement in the Medical School'.
What do we mean by 'Quality Improvement in a Medical School'? There is clearly a need to enhance the standard of medical education, and to be able to measure and understand what we are doing as we teach. Internationally, there are a wide range of processes for quality assurance in medical education.
However, the role of the Medical School is not just undergraduate medical education: it includes postgraduate training, research, and interaction with clinical service. For example, there is little point in working to improve education in the lecture room and the laboratory if medical students cannot be taught in a clinical service of high-quality. AMSE is interested in ensuring that clinical care is as good as possible, and also that clinical care is structured in such a way as to ensure that students are given the best opportunities and experience.
Similarly, a Medical School that teaches well, but does not ensure high standards in its research training, or in its research, will fail. Again, there are many processes internationally for the evaluation and enhancement of research performance.
The conference examined the way in which Medical School staff can improve what they do in all aspects of the Medical School’s work. It included overviews of quality improvement from a perspective outside medicine, discussion of Europe-wide practice and regulation, and examination of the methods and experiences currently in operation in quality improvement. The conference examined methodologies that need to be developed for the future, and produced a consensus statement of the state of the art of quality improvement in the Medical School, and of actions for the future.
To find out more about the conference, visit the web site of the 2008 AMSE conference.
Previous meetings of AMSE
AMSE Conference 2007: Linking Medical Schools with Teaching Hospitals and Health Centres
Following on from the success of the 2006 AMSE Conference in Kracow, Poland, the 2007 meeting of AMSE took place in Lisbon, Portugal from 14 - 16 June 2007.
The meeting began at 9.00am on 14 June with a workshop to focus on Performance Management, facilitated by Professor Ed Hillhouse, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, and Alison Johns, Higher Education Funding Council for England. The programme continued through Friday 15 and Saturday 16 June, with a range of speakers drawn from across Europe.
Topics discussed include 'Linking Medical Schools with Teaching and Research in the Community, Family Medicine and in Primary Care', 'Academic Health Centres, Experiences from Europe and the Rest of the World' and 'Accreditation and Quality Assurance of Health Teaching Institutions.' The perspectives of Faculty Deans and Heads of School were compared and contrasted with those of healthcare administrators, representatives from patient and student bodies and clinical academics.
The full programme of the conference and copies of presentations can be accessed here.
2006: 23-25 June, Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland http://www.amse.cm-uj.krakow.pl/
"Medicine at the beginning of the third millennium; the impact of the Bologna process on the medical education, structure and management of Medical Schools."
2005: 4-6 September, Turku, Finland http://congress.utu.fi/amse/
2004: 3- 5 September, Manchester, England
Download conference programme.
2003: Prague, Czech Republic
2002: Lille, France http://histolii.ugr.es/amse/amse2002/
2001: Ghent, Belgium http://histolii.ugr.es/amse/amse2001/
2000: Porto, Portugal http://histolii.ugr.es/amse/amse2000/
Future meeting on Quality Assurance
The Barcelona Conference (2008) agreed that dialogue between medicine-specific quality assurance agencies and agencies with a responsibility for general quality assurance in higher education should be promoted. AMSE is developing plans for a workshop for interactive discussion and development of this topic. More news will be posted in due course.
Previous meetings
2009 AMSE Conference
Zagreb 4 - 6 June
The programme from the Conference can be seen here.
2008 AMSE Conference - Barcelona 5 - 7 June
Images of the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Conference: Dr Josep Samitier, Acting Rector of the University of Barcelona, welcoming Conference participants
Delegates at the Barcelona Conference 2008
The programme and presentations from this meeting are available here.
2007 AMSE Conference - Lisbon 14 - 16 June
To access the programme and presentations from the Lisbon meeting, please click here.
2007 Lisbon Declaration
