Recent news
2010 AMSE Conference
The 2010 Annual Conference of AMSE was held in Berlin, Germany, from 10 - 12 June 2010, on the subject of "Internationalisation of Medical Schools". Participants spent three days discussing all aspects of the international role of medical schools, with expert speakers from many countries in Europe, from the USA, Australia and Malaysia.
The presentations from this stimulating and successful meeting will be posted on the website soon: in the meantime, the Conference website can be seen here.
Planning for AMSE 2011
The 2011 Annual Conference of AMSE will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 18 - 18 June 2011. The subject will be "The staff of the medical school - challenges and opportunities". The website for the Conference is open here, and more news will follow soon.
World Federation for Medical Education
AMSE was represented at the April 2009 meeting of the Executive Council of the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) in Irbid, Jordan, and again at the March 2010 meeting in Bangkok. WFME is the global organisation concerned with education and training of medical doctors, in which regional associations for medical education from around the world work in partnership with other organisations such as the World Medical Association and WHO.
MEDINE Quality Assurance Task Force - Outcome published
AMSE and the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) jointly led the quality assurance task force of MEDINE, the European Union-funded thematic network in medicine. The task force developed European specifications to the already well-established WFME global quality assurance standards, for all three phases of medical education: not only for the undergraduate course, but also in postgraduate medical education, and the continuing education of the doctor throughout his or her career. The outcome is a comprehensive set of proposed standards, both those considered to be essential and others to which institutions should aspire – “basic standards” and “quality development standards”. These were published in May 2007 and can be viewed here.
WFME, Irbid, Jordan
