Warning! Because of the current corona-virus public health crisis, many meetings are being canceled or postponed. Please visit the individual meeting websites for updated information.

2020 Summer Institute in Evidence-based Teaching and Course Design

Chapel Hill, NC, USA, May 18–21, 2020

The Institute can help you advance your agenda in designing or revising courses or program curricula, improving teaching and learning effectiveness, implementing more efficient and effective assessments, and documenting, presenting and publishing on your educational development and scholarship work. The 2020 Summer Institute’s four full days will provide a well-structured mix of effective instruction on the best, current research and practice; interactive hands-on workshops; expert mentoring, consultation and feedback; and time reserved for individual/team work on your projects. You can earn CE credit of 20 contact hours (through ACPE) for attending. For any questions, please contact cipher@unc.edu or jacqui_mclaughlin@unc.edu.

24th IAMSE Annual Meeting

Denver, CO, USA, June 13–16, 2020

The 24th Annual Conference of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) will be held at the Hilton Denver City Center hotel in Denver, CO (USA), from June 13 to 16, 2020. The IAMSE meeting offers a lot of opportunities for faculty development and networking and brings medical sciences and medical education across the continuum together. This year’s main topic is Envisioning the Future of Health Sciences Education. Confirmed keynote speakers are Maria Mylopoulos, PhD (University of Toronto, Canada); Cindy Nebel, PhD (Vanderbilt University); Poh-Sun Goh, MBBS, FRCR, MHPE (National University of Singapore, Singapore); and Renay Scales, PhD (University of Kentucky, USA). The meeting offers workshops, focus sessions, oral and poster presentations, and several networking opportunities. In addition to the program, the IAMSE Fellowship and AMEE-ESME course will be offered. Please visit www.iamseconference.org for more information.

VII International Congress of Medical Education/VI International Congress of Medical Simulation

Puerto Vallarte, México, June 16–20, 2020

The Organizing Committee invites you to the VII International Congress of Medical Education and the VI International Congress of Medical Simulation. The meeting offers master lectures given by the most outstanding exponents of medical education, conferences, panels, forums, and paper and poster presentations. Information and simulation technologies have played a central role in medical education throughout the last decade. Therefore, the VI International Congress of Medical Simulation is carried out simultaneously; through various activities, the participants will have the opportunity to receive an update on the main themes of the advances, tools, and techniques. For more information, visit http://eventos-amfem.mx/index.php/en/.

ASM 2020 - Disrupting Medical Education

Liverpool, UK, July 8–10, 2020

Following exceptional circumstances concerning the escalating risks associated with the Covid 19 pandemic, the ASME Board have decided to postpone the Annual Scholarship Meeting ASM 2020. We intend to reschedule (late 2020) once the current climate is more certain holding your abstracts and any registrations. For more information, visit https://www.asme.org.uk/events/asm2020.

ANZAHPE 2020 Conference

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, July 12–15, 2020

The Australian & New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators (ANZAHPE) 2020 Conference will be held in Melbourne, Victoria, from Sunday, 12 July to Wednesday, 15 July 2020. The theme of the meeting is 2020 Vision for Learning Cultures and will explore what a productive learning culture looks like and what the multiple and intersecting factors are that influence cultures of learning in the classroom and the workplace. See https://www.anzahpe.org/2020-Conference for more detail.

AMEE 2020

Glasgow, UK, September 4–9, 2020

The AMEE annual conference is now established as the key meeting for all involved in medical and healthcare professions education including teachers, educationists, researchers, administrators, and students. There will be something for everyone—those new to education or with wide experience; those interested in undergraduate education, postgraduate training, or CPD; and those working in medicine or other healthcare profession as a teacher, student, administrator, researcher, or leader. The meeting will take place at the Scottish Event Campus, located just outside Glasgow city center in the west-end. Visit https://amee.org/conferences/amee-2020 for more information.

PAEA 2020 Education Forum

Austin, TX, USA, October 20–23, 2020

The Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA) is the only national organization in the USA of representing PA educational programs. PAEA works to ensure quality PA education through the development and distribution of educational services and products specifically geared toward meeting the emerging needs of PA programs, the PA profession, and the health care industry. The Education Forum covers topics such as competency-based education, integrating technology into the learning experience, teaching the twenty-first-century learner, transforming the student experience, and driving innovations in clinical education, organizational success, inclusive excellence, health systems science, research briefs, posters, etc. The Fall Workshops are organized in two days before the meeting. For more information, visit https://paealearning.org/forum/paea-education-forum-fall-workshops/.