Presentations and Workshops

Medical educators from the University of Aberdeen present regularly at national and international medical educational conferences such as:

  • Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME)
  • Association for Medical Education Europe (AMEE)
  • The Ottawa Conferences on Clinical Competence

Research findings are also disseminated at other relevant fora such as the Scottish Clinical Skills Network; British Pharmaceutical Society, Royal College and Quality Assurance (QAA) meetings.

Medical educators from Aberdeen have lead Higher Education Academy workshops, for example:

  • Developing a faculty of medical educators (Dr Jennifer Cleland)
  • Training the assessors in Mini-CEX (Dr Nishan Fernando)

and contributed as speakers at ASME Workshops (eg, Dr Alan Denison)

The University of Aberdeen jointly with the North/North East Postgraduate Deanery hosted the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME)'s Annual Conference in 2006.