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| Dates 2010 | Conference Organiser
and Location | Details | Website |
| 18-19 March 2010 | Leadership & Practice Development in Health:
Quality and Safety through Workplace Learning
Hotel Grand Chancellor,
Hobart, Tasmania | The program will stimulate discussion regarding a range of innovations in interprofessional quality and safety teaching and learning practices including health
workforce reforms, coaching and clinical supervision, and practice development across a broad range of interdisciplinary themes. The Conference will highlight
the use of simulation as a teaching and learning strategy that is particularly suited to the development of teams and practice-based learning. Interactive workshops will support the Conference program. | http://www.cdesign.com.au/leadership |
| 6-9 April 2010 | AIPPEN - All Together Better Health Conference IV
Manly Pacific Hotel
Sydney | The ATBH IV conference titled 'Development and progress in Interprofessional Education and Practice' was held in Sweeden 2008
More information available soon for the 2010 conference. | http://www.alltogether.se/ |
| 15-20 May 2010 | OTTAWA Conference
Hyatt Regency
Miami | Assessment of Competence in Medicine and the Healthcare Professions
The content and organization of the 2010 meeting will be different from past meetings. Firstly, the programme committee expanded the number of pre-conference workshops and courses to provide a greater range and depth of topics that fulfill individual needs and interests. Secondly we reorganized the meeting to make it easier for you to choose what you want to attend and where to find it. There are several special tracks and broad themes that we have scheduled throughout the various plenary and symposia presentations, workshops, and abstracts sessions so that you have the option to focus on a particular area of interest or sample a wide range of topics. Thirdly, a product of the meeting will be the generation of a consensus statement and recommendations relating to assessment of competence in the healthcare professions. Six working groups, each addressing an important theme in assessment, are currently drafting reports that will be presented during the meeting. You will have an opportunity to comment on and influence the further development of these statements. We see this as an exciting and important initiative. | http://www.ottawaconference.org/ |
| 1-2 July 2010 | Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium
UNSW Sydney | 'Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts.'
The University of New South Wales, in collaboration with the University of Sydney, is hosting the 3rd Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium.
This symposium will build on the previous two symposia to further explore practice and research into threshold concepts and the changes these are bringing across the higher education sector.
The symposium theme aims to encourage the exploration of thresholds and transformations. When Meyer and Land first coined the expression threshold concepts in 2002 they highlighted their transformative nature: "where they can be considered as akin to a portal, opening up a new and previously inaccessible way of thinking about something…representing a transformed way of understanding, or interpreting, or viewing something without which the learner cannot progress". They claimed that once understood, their "potential effect on student learning and behaviour is to occasion a significant shift in the perception of a subject, or part thereof". They found transformation went beyond perception and learning and extended to the affective domain around personal identity and perspective, including "a shift in values, feeling or attitude". | http://www.thresholdconcepts2010.unsw.edu.au |
| 6-9 July 2010 | HERDSA 2010 - Reshaping Higher Education
Hilton on the Park
Melbourne | HERDSA 2010, Reshaping Higher Education is being hosted by Deakin University, in Victoria, Australia. You are invited to reflect on how we are Reshaping Higher Education through the key themes of:
* Policy;
* Academic practice;
* Research;
* Leadership; and
* Student outcomes.
Student outcomes: Higher education must continue to examine its educational purposes in the face of the changing worlds of work and notions of global citizenship. Contributions to the conference within this sub-theme may focus on attributes and capabilities required of graduates, academic standards, approaches to work-integrated and experiential learning contributing to the development of graduate attributes, new approaches to partnering with industry, government and the professions for the achievement of valued learning outcomes, and new conceptions of what it means to be a well educated citizen living and working in a global economy and interconnected communities. | http://www.herdsa.org.au/ |
| 13-16 July 2010 | ANZAME 2010
James Cook University
Townsville | Overcoming BARRIERS, RE(E)Forming Professional Practice
The ANZAME 10 organising committee takes great pleasure in inviting you to participate in the 39th annual ANZAME conference to be hosted by the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Molecular Sciences at James Cook University.
2010 marks the 100 Year anniversary of the release of the Flexner Report into medical education. This conference will consider the journey that health professional education has undertaken in responding to emerging ‘best practice’ and will seek to help chart a course forward to continue overcoming the barriers that impinge upon the ability of health professional education to ‘transmit knowledge, to impart skills, and to inculcate the values of the profession’.
The organising committee invites you to join us in the beautiful tropics to engage in stimulating debate and discussion, to explore the barriers and opportunities currently facing health professional education and to challenge yourself to re(e)form your professional practice in response to these.
Sub Themes
Overcoming barriers: Integration of, and student engagement with, the behavioural, biomedical and social sciences.
Re(e)forming practice: Interprofessional education – the translation of effective learning strategies across professions
Overcoming barriers: Teaching students ‘outside of the box’
Re(e)forming transitions: Supporting students through critical transitions
Re(e)forming assessment practices: When is enough enough?
Overcoming the barriers of distance: Learning in dispersed and underserved environments | http://www.jcu.edu.au/anzame10/ |
| 4-8 September 2010 | AMEE
Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre
Glasgow, UK | Further details available soon. | http://www.amee.org/index.asp?lm=117 |
Submissions Dates and Details relating to the above Conferences
| Dates 2009 | Conference | Details | Website |
| 1 October 2009 | Leadership & Practice Development | Abstracts for presentation at the Conference are due by 01 October 2009. A 250-word abstract should outline the aims and content of the presentation. Authors are invited to submit abstracts for Oral Papers, Workshops or Poster Presentations. While you will be asked to indicate your preferred presentation format, the Conference Committee may request an alternative format be considered.If you have any problems with the submission process please contact Conference Design for assistance.
Authors are invited to submit abstracts for:
* Oral Papers (20 minutes, including questions)
* Workshops (45 minutes or 90 minutes)
* Poster displays (1metre wide x 2-metres high) | http://www.cdesign.com.au/leadership/zone_presenters.html |
| October 2009 | ANZAME 2010 | Abstracts Submissions Open
Abstracts close 8 February 2010 | http://www.jcu.edu.au/anzame10/ |
| 5 October 2009 | Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium | Early Submissions due.
Offering an early submission timeline for those who need advanced notification of acceptance for funding purposes.
Papers are invited which explore the theme of threshold concepts and transformations across one or more of the following dimensions:
1. Epistemological dimensions - Transforming knowledge and learning - thinking, learning, understanding, perceptions, frameworks
♣ Personal (academics, students, academic developers, professional staff)
♣ Communities of practice
2. Ontological dimensions - Transforming world views, identities, feelings, values, perspectives
♣ Personal (academics, students, academic developers, professional staff)
♣ Community (disciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary)
3. Practice dimensions - Transforming practice – teaching, learning, curricula, assessment
♣ Personal (academics, students, academic developers, professional staff)
♣ Community (School and Faculty, academic development)
4. Reflexive dimensions - Transforming the very notion of threshold concepts themselves – through critiquing, problematising, evaluating, creating - and moving the notion of, and the research on, thresholds forward.
Download the form and send your submission to:thresholdconcepts2010@unsw.edu.au | http://thresholdconcepts2010.unsw.edu.au/callforpaper.html |
| 15 November 2009 | OTTAWA Conference 2010 | Assessment of Competence in Medicine and the Healthcare Professions
Submissions due.
Oral or poster presentation:
All submissions will be considered for either oral or poster presentation, unless the submitter checks the box on the submission form to request consideration as a poster only; abstracts should be maximum 200 words (excluding title, names and affiliations), structured as follows: Background; Summary of Work; Summary of Results; Conclusions; Take home messages
Conference workshop:
Workshops are 90 minutes’ duration; abstracts should be maximum 200 words (excluding title, names and affiliations), structured as follows: Background; Intended Outcomes; Structure; Intended Audience; Level of Workshop | http://www.ottawaconference.org/abstracts.html |
| 1 December 2009 | AMEE | Abstract submissions opens:
1. Short communications
2. Posters
3. Fringe presentation
4. Conference workshops
5. PhDs report
6. Secrets of Success
7. Research paper | http://www.amee.org/index.asp?llm=2 |
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| 25 January 2010 | Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium | Papers are invited which explore the theme of threshold concepts and transformations across one or more of the following dimensions:
1. Epistemological dimensions - Transforming knowledge and learning - thinking, learning, understanding, perceptions, frameworks
♣ Personal (academics, students, academic developers, professional staff)
♣ Communities of practice
2. Ontological dimensions - Transforming world views, identities, feelings, values, perspectives
♣ Personal (academics, students, academic developers, professional staff)
♣ Community (disciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary)
3. Practice dimensions - Transforming practice – teaching, learning, curricula, assessment
♣ Personal (academics, students, academic developers, professional staff)
♣ Community (School and Faculty, academic development)
4. Reflexive dimensions - Transforming the very notion of threshold concepts themselves – through critiquing, problematising, evaluating, creating - and moving the notion of, and the research on, thresholds forward.
Download the form and send your submission to:thresholdconcepts2010@unsw.edu.au | http://thresholdconcepts2010.unsw.edu.au/callforpaper.html |
| 8 February 2010 | ANZAME 2010 | Abstracts Close | http://www.jcu.edu.au/anzame10/ |
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