{"id":74,"date":"2019-09-06T13:28:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T13:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/education-research\/?p=74"},"modified":"2019-09-06T13:30:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T13:30:20","slug":"74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/education-research\/2019\/09\/06\/74\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial&#8217;s contribution to international discussion about developing medical education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/j.horsburgh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr Jo Horsburgh<\/a>, Principal Teaching Fellow in Medical Education<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last week colleagues from department of Primary Care and Public Health and I attended the <a href=\"https:\/\/amee.org\/conferences\/amee-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Association of Medical Education in Europe<\/a> (AMEE) conference in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"496\" height=\"158\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/education-research\/files\/2019\/09\/New-Logo-horizontal.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Attendees from across the world meet to share and discuss the latest innovations, thinking, and research in medical education. This year\u2019s themes included Threshold Concepts and Activity theory with keynote talks from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dur.ac.uk\/research\/directory\/staff\/?mode=staff&amp;id=10278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Professor Ray Land<\/a> (University of Durham) and <a href=\"https:\/\/researchportal.helsinki.fi\/en\/persons\/yrj%C3%B6-engestr%C3%B6m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof Yrj\u00f6 Engestr\u00f6m<\/a> (University of Helsinki). In addition to a wide range of workshops and symposia, the conference also provided us with an excellent opportunity to meet with our collaborators from Australia, South Africa and the Netherlands to discuss shared projects.<\/p>\n<p>I was also fortunate to have the opportunity to present some research from my doctoral studies on medical educator identity. This research explored the facilitators and barriers to professional identity development and prompted much discussion around how we can best support medical educators in their development.<\/p>\n<p>There was a wide range of presentations from Imperial, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/staff\/educational-development\/programmes\/med-in-university-learning-and-teaching\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MEd in ULT<\/a> alumnus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/andrew.mckeown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr Andy McKeown<\/a>, who presented from his dissertation on educational authenticity in longitudinal integrated clerkships.<\/p>\n<p>The conference was an excellent opportunity to share ideas and generate new projects in order to best develop medical education at Imperial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Jo Horsburgh, Principal Teaching Fellow in Medical Education Last week colleagues from department of Primary Care and Public Health and I attended the Association of Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) conference in Vienna. 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