Academic Contributions
Our consultants are involved in a range of academic activities nationally and internationally, including membership of the AMEE Executive Committee, leading the AMEE ASPIRE Assessment Panel, acting as Associate experts for the UK GMC and delivering the AMEE Essential Skills in Medical Education: Assessment (ESMEA) Course since 2008.
Our consultants are actively involved in international conference planning and giving presentations (plenaries, symposia, workshops, chairing sessions); e.g. ADEE conference, AMEE annual scientific meeting, ANZAPHE, APMEC, IMEC, JSME, Ottawa conference, TMEC.
Medical Teacher 'Talking Point' Podcast
An OSCE is not an OSCE simply because you call it that!
Professor Ronald Harden, Editor-in-chief of the Medical Teacher journal, interviews 4 guest speakers, including three HPAC consultants, while addressing some of the key points about clinical assessment from the 2022 Ottawa conference.
2024
HPAC Director, Kathy Boursicot, was invited to give the closing plenary at the 16th Jakarta meeting on medical education (18 & 19 October 2024). It was a great opportunity to catch up with old friendships.
JAKMED October
With Rita Mustika and Diantha Soemantri, leading lights of the Conference Committee
The plenary was attended by over 600 delegates with lively discussions!
Phuket is of course a popular tourist destination: we were very privileged to be taken around by local doctor Arpapun.
Katharine Boursicot was invited to the 30th CPIRD (Collaborative Project to Increase Production of Rural Doctors) conference to deliver a plenary on "Assessment for Outcomes-Based Medical Education" and co-facilitate a workshop on "Assessment of Professionalism".
CPIRD September
63 people attended the workshop and the participants were very actively engaged, with Kanokwan from CPIRD doing a great job with simultaneous translations!
Best part of the AMEE Meeting is catching with friends from the medical education community around the world.
We offered a joint workshop between the ASPIRE Assessment Panel and the ASPIRE Academy Sub Group to encourage and support schools considering an application for and ASPIRE Assessment Award.
Katharine Boursicot is the Chair of the ASPIRE Assessment Panel.
AMEE August
It was August
Medical Teacher Advisory Board
ASPIRE Assessment Workshop
VetEd
VetEd Symposium, University College Dublin, Ireland July 2024. Sandra Kemp and Katharine Boursicot conducted 2 pre-conference workshops: Workplace Based Assessment and Feedback, which were attended by 40 people:
Feedback Workshop
Katharine Boursicot with Prof Sue Rackard, who is the Director of the Centre for Veterinary Education at UCD
Workplace Based Assessment
Katharine Boursicot with RISR colleague
Ottawa Conference
In 2024, HPAC consultants attended the Ottawa Conference on Assessment in Medicine and the Healthcare Professions, which was held in February in Melbourne, Australia.
Katharine Boursicot, Sandra Kemp and Jen Williams facilitated a 2-day course on Essential Skills in Medical Education Assessment (ESMEA). The course was fully subscribed with 50 participants and highly evaluated!
We also hosted a Symposium entitled “Death of the OSCE? Implications of replacing formal examinations of clinical and communication skills with Workplace Based Assessment”. We had a stellar group of international presenters: Katharine Boursicot (HPAC, Singapore) Eric Holmboe (Intealth, USA), Sandra Kemp (Wollongong, Australia), Viren Naik (Medical Council of Canada, Canada) and Jen Williams (University of New England, Australia), ably chaired by Riitta Moller (Karolinska Institute, Sweden).
The Symposium was attended by over 200 people, provoked lively discussions and was a highlight of the Conference)!
Conferences are always a great place to catch up with colleagues and friends!
2023
AMEE Annual Scientific Meeting, 2023, Glasgow, UK
ADEE (Association for Dental Education in Europe) conference, Liverpool, UK: plenary, pre-conference workshop and Panel Discussion
JSME (Japanese Society for Medical Education), Nagasaki, Japan: Plenary
JFME (Japan Medical Education Foundation) OSCE Symposium, Tokyo, Japan: Plenary
External Advisor to UCL/ Quality Assurance Review of MD Programme at HRH Princess Chulabhorn College of Medical Science, Bangkok, Thailand
TMEC (Thai Medical Education Annual Conference) Bangkok, Thailand: Plenary, workshop on WB