The 2016 Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) Conference was held August 27-31 in Barcelona, Spain. The AMEE conference is recognized globally as a key annual medical and health care professions education platform, regularly attended by 3,500 participants. Session formats included workshops, short communications, posters, specialty courses, symposia, and plenaries.<\/p>\n
A number of FAIMER staff participated in AMEE 2016, serving as symposium, workshop, and short communication presenters. John Norcini served as faculty in the Essential Skills in Medical Education Assessment<\/em> (ESME<\/em>) course and presented as part of a pre-conference workshop entitled Five essential topics for faculty development programs in assessment: What do faculty need to know?<\/em>, as well as a symposium entitled The role of qualitative and quantitative feedback in the context of a competency-based curriculum<\/em>. John Boulet gave a presentation as part of the workshop entitled From course objectives to entrustable professional activities: Developing test blueprints for assessments that matter<\/em>. Together with Professor David Gordon of the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME), John Norcini and Marta van Zanten presented a workshop entitled Understanding the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) criteria for recognizing agencies that accredit medical schools<\/em>. Sarah Leng, Robbert Duvivier, and Marta van Zanten presented short communications describing projects conducted as part of FAIMER\u2019s ongoing research initiatives: Cross-border partnerships in medical education<\/em>, Physician emigration from Africa to the United States of America \u2013 a 10 year cross-sectional profile<\/em>, and The association between accreditation of medical education and rates of specialty board certification for graduates of international medical schools practicing in the United States<\/em>, respectively.<\/p>\n [lastupdated]<\/p>\n (posted September 9, 2016; updated September 12, 2016)<\/p>\n [close]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"