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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.ATBH5.com.au |
| 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 | Inspire.... and be inspired
Now a major focus of the medical education calendar, the AMEE conference regularly attracts in excess of 2,200 participants from around the world – from those countries with a
long history of medical education to those relatively new to the discipline. We are also pleased that increasingly the other healthcare professions including veterinary medicine, nursing and dentistry are making significant contributions to the programme. The content covers the continuum from undergraduate through postgraduate education, to continuing
professional development.
As always the programme is packed with a wide variety of exciting sessions
including plenaries, symposia, oral and poster presentations and workshops and there is something for everyone. There are also many opportunities for you to present your work if you wish. The preconference workshops and courses are a much valued and well-attended
part of the conference programme, this year including a two-day eLearning Symposium at University of Glasgow on 4-5 September. | http://www.amee.org/index.asp?lm=117 |
| 4-8 September 2010 | AMEE - eLearning Symposium | The changing scene in eLearning
eLearning is playing an increasingly important role and is now part of mainstream developments in medical education. There remain major tensions, however, in what we as educators provide for students and how students use technology. Both teachers and students need new competencies if they are to maximise the use of technology for teaching and learning. The emergent use of social networks and mobile and other technologies, for example, is challenging our concepts as to how students learn and our role as teachers.
This symposium devoted to eLearning is organised as part of AMEE 2010 to be held in Glasgow 4th to 8th September 2010. It follows a successful eLearning conference held in conjunction with the AMEE 2006 conference in Sestri Levante, Italy. The eLearning Symposium is a stand-alone event, and it is possible to register for this without attending the main Conference.
The symposium provides the opportunity for all concerned with education in the healthcare professions to gain a valuable insight into the current position in this complex field and to see examples of ‘best-of-breed’ practice. Participants from different countries and backgrounds can share their experience and contribute to the debate. | http://www.amee.org/index.asp?lm=125 |
| 18-21 October 2010 | GCEMEM 2010 Conference
Novotel Barossa Valley Resort
South Australia | 2nd ICEMEN, CLIC, THEnet
Global Community Engaged medical Education Muster 2010
Muster is a term primarily used in Australia to refer to the roundup of livestock. However, it can also refer to the calling forth of volunteers, and to the persons assembled for a gathering especially of troops for roll call, inspection, review and service. Flinders University and Northern Ontario School of Medicine call you to muster at this conference.
Following the success of the 2008 ICEMEN International Conference: Community Engaged Medical Education in the North) in Northern Ontario, the Conference Convening Committee invites you to attend this second conference on community-engaged medical education. An exciting programme that will feature inter-nationally recognised leaders in community engagement, Continuous Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships (CLIC) and Training for Health Equity (THEnet). | http://www.sapmea.asn.au/conventions/gcemem2010/index.html |
Submissions Dates and Details relating to the above Conferences
| Dates 2010 | Conference | Details | Website |
| 12 March 2010 | AMEE 2010 Abstracts | If you would like to present your own work, please submit an abstract. All work related to education in medicine and the healthcare professions will be considered.
Submit an abstract for AMEE 2010 online . Once logged in select the ‘AMEE 2010 Abstracts’ link from the left menu.
Abstracts may be edited after submission, up until the deadline date indicated below, by logging into your account and selecting ‘view abstract submissions’ from the left menu.
Abstracts submissions may cover any topic in medical and healthcare professions education relating to undergraduate/basic training, postgraduate/specialist training or continuing professional development/continuing medical education. Abstracts are invited for presentation in the following formats:
1. Short communications - deadline for submissions 12 March
2. Posters - deadline for submissions 12 March
3. Fringe presentation - deadline for submissions 12 March
4. Conference workshops - deadline for submissions 12 March
5. PhDs report - deadline for submissions 17 January
6. Secrets of Success - deadline for submissions 12 March
7. Research paper - deadline for submissions 17 January
In order to assist in the categorisation of abstracts, submitters will be asked to identify up to six keywords for each abstract from the list provided. | http://www.amee.org/index.asp?pg=96 |
| 12 March 2010 | AMEE eLearning Symposium Abstracts | Submit an abstract for eLearning: amee2010 online by logging into your AMEE web account and select the ‘AMEE 2010 Abstracts’ link from the left menu, you may submit as many abstracts as you wish for the eLearning Symposium and for AMEE 2010.
Abstracts may be edited after submission, up until the deadline date indicated below, by logging into your account and selecting ‘view abstract submissions’ from the left menu.
Abstracts are invited for presentation in the following formats:
1. Short communications - deadline for submissions 12 March
2. Posters - deadline for submissions 12 March
Short communications and posters will be presented in themed sessions that may include the following topics:
Assessment and eLearning; Case studies in undergraduate education; Case studies in postgraduate education; Case studies in continuing professional development ; Creation of content; E-learning and on-the-job training; E-learning standards and interoperability; Embedding eLearning in the curriculum; Evaluating eLearning and research; Future developments in eLearning; Haptics and related developments; Instructional design; Learning objects; Management and organisation of eLearning ; Mobile learning and hand held devices; Podcasts, blogs and wikis; Second life and immersive technologies; Simulation; The student and eLearning; The teacher and eLearning; Usability and developmental testing; Virtual patients; Virtual reality
In order to assist in the categorisation of abstracts, submitters will be asked to identify up to six keywords for each abstract from the list provided. | http://www.amee.org/index.asp?llm=91 |
| 10 May | GCEMEM 2010 Conference Abstracts - now open | A 250-word abstract should outline the aims and content of the presentation. Authors are invited to submit abstracts for Oral Papers, Workshops, Poster Presentations or Personally Arranged Learning Sessions (PeArLs). While you will be asked to indicate your preferred presentation format, the Conference Committee may request an alternative format to be considered. If you have any problems with the submission process please contact gcemem2010@sapmea.asn.au for assistance.
Abstract Themes:
- Health Professional Education for the Future
- Community Engagement
- Social Accountabuility
- Continuity
- Inter-Professional Authentic Learning
| http://www.sapmea.asn.au/conventions/gcemem2010/abstracts.html |
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