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2010 International Fellowship in Medical Education Recipients
FAIMER is pleased to announce the 2010 recipients of the International Fellowship in Medical Education (IFME).
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Save the Dates—National Conference on Health Professions Education to Take Place September 16-17, 2011
The 2nd National Conference on Health Professions Education (NCHPE) will take place September 16-17, 2011, in Vellore, India.
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2nd Quality Assurance in Medical Education Symposium in Saudi Arabia
The 2nd Quality Assurance in Medical Education Symposium took place May 30-31, 2010, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, at the Faculty of Medicine, King Fahad Medical City, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences.
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New Textbook on Medical Education
Presented by the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME), Understanding Medical Education: Evidence, Theory and Practice is a new, comprehensive textbook on medical education scheduled to be available from Wiley-Blackwell publishers in August 2010.
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2010 Medical Education Day at University of Michigan Medical School
FAIMER Associate Vice President for Education and Co-Director of the FAIMER Institute William Burdick, M.D., M.S.Ed., attended the University of Michigan Medical School’s Annual Medical Education Day on June 8, 2010, where he gave a presentation on the subject of capacity building in international health professions education.
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Brazil-FAIMER Fellowship Recognized as Specialty Diploma in Health Professions Education
On May 31, 2010, the Universidade Federal do Ceará in Brazil accredited the Brazil-FAIMER Regional Institute (Brazil-FRI) fellowship as a diploma course in education for the health professions.
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Marta van Zanten Wins RIME Outstanding Paper Award
FAIMER Research Associate Marta van Zanten, Ph.D. (cand.), is the recipient of the 2009 Research in Medical Education (RIME) Outstanding Paper Award for the paper, “Medical Education in the Caribbean: Variability in Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates Certification Rates and United States Medical Licensing Examination Attempts,” co-authored by FAIMER Associate Vice President for Research and Data Resources John Boulet, Ph.D.
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14th Ottawa Conference on the Assessment of Competence in Medicine and the Healthcare Professions
The 14th Ottawa Conference on the Assessment of Competence in Medicine and the Healthcare Professions was held May 15–19, 2010, in Miami, Florida.
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11th Thai Medical Education Conference
The 11th Thai Medical Education Conference, “Globalization and Medical Education,” was hosted by the Faculty of Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, in Bangkok, Thailand, March 27-29, 2010.
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4th Annual Stellenbosch University Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
On May 11 and 12, 2010, Stellenbosch University held its fourth annual Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, hosted by the university’s Centre for Teaching and Learning.
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Fellows and Faculty Working on Some “Really Good Stuff”
The May 2010 issue of Medical Education contains the latest collection of “Really Good Stuff,” a peer-reviewed compilation of short, structured reports, published semiannually, on new ideas in medical education, including curriculum design, teaching practice, and assessment.
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2010 FAIMER Institute Fellows Announced
The 2010 FAIMER Institute will begin in Philadelphia, starting October 3.
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Suez Canal University Medical Education Department Receives Leadership and Management Award
Management Sciences for Health (MSH), a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health of the world’s neediest countries by helping managers and leaders improve health services, announced in March the recipients of its annual Leadership and Management Awards for 2010.
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12th International Medical Education Conference Held in Argentina
The XII Jornadas Internacionales De Educación Médica (12th International Medical Education Conference) took place April 19-20, 2010, at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina.
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GSMC- and PSG-FAIMER Regional Institutes Add Residential Session to Fellowship Program
The PSG-FAIMER Regional Institute and the GSMC-FAIMER Regional Institute have added a third residential session to their fellowship programs.
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NCHPE 2009 Website Updated
The website of the National Conference on Health Professionals’ Education, held in December 2009 in Pune, India, has recently been updated to include photos, presentations, an abstract book, and posters from the conference.
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Access to On-line Health Care Services and Systems Resource Free to Latin America and the Caribbean
Through the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), free access to the Cochrane Library—a preeminent repository of research on the efficacy of health interventions—is available to individual users in Latin America and the Caribbean region.
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International Journal of Medical Education (IJME)
The International Journal of Medical Education (IJME) is a new open-access, peer-reviewed, scientific journal promoting the exchange of knowledge among medical professionals in all domains of medical and clinical education and practice worldwide.
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Advances in Medical Education and Practice
A new open-access, peer-reviewed journal, currently in development, aims to publish research articles on a broad array of topics in health professions education, including medical, dental, and nursing education.
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PSG-FAIMER Regional Institute 2010
The first residential session of the 2010 PSG-FAIMER Regional Institute took place April 24-30, 2010, in Coimbatore, India, under the direction of Thomas Chacko.
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