MEDINE 1Thematic Network

HeraklionExecutive Board meeting

12th February 2007

Karel Van Liempt

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Task Force 4 – Recognition of qualifications

• core group (editorial team)• past meetings• action lines: activities & outcomes• dissemination

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Core group (editorial team)

Task force leader, Karel Van Liempt• Action line 1

- Sverre Bjerkeset (NO)- Ulrike Arnold (DE)

• Action line 2- Ruddy Verbinnen (BE)

• Action line 3- Bernard Maillet (UEMS)- Howard Fee (IRL)

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Past meetings

- Core meetings- Task force meetings- Work group sessions on survey

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Past meetings

• 5 core meetings- Brussels (Skyport) 10/11/2005- Berlin 9/12/2005- Oslo 24/2/2006- Brussels 7/7/2006- Murcia 29/9/2006- Brussels (Skyport) 2/2/2007

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Past meetings

• 3 Task force meetings- Task force meeting Berlin 9-10/12/2005- Task Force meeting Prague 5/5/2006- Task force meeting Murcia 29-30/9/2006

• 3 Working group sessions survey- Brussels 17/1/2006- Oslo 21/4/2006- Brussels 24/7/2006

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Action line 1: activities & outcomes

• The use of ECTS/DS as a prerequisite to develop a framework for international recognition of medical qualifications

- survey - manual

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Action line 1: survey activities

• Survey activities- presentation first analysis Prague May 2006- presentation AMEE conference Genoa Sep 2006

- state of the art1. basic knowledge is present2. widespread use is not achieved

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Action line 1: survey outcomes

- descriptive note- article in Medical Teacher- policy lines

• Policy line 1: Use of ECTS- involve key authorities, draw up action plan

• Policy line 2: Learning outcomes- workshop: example of core curriculum

• Policy line 3: Grading scale- involve institution’s ICT departments

• Policy line 4: degree structure- open up debate on Ba-Ma as opportunity for curricular reform

• Policy line 5: Diploma supplement- …

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Action line 1: manual outcomes

• Manual- presentation first draft, Prague May 2006- presentation final version, September 2007

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Action line 2: activities & outcomes

• Address the issue of correspondence and transfer between Medicine and other health care education programmes primarily in dentistry

- Flexible Learning Paths

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Action line 2: activities FLP

• promote Flexible Learning Paths (FLP) as means to facilitate Transfer to & Correspondence with different education programmes in the health care sector

- Murcia, September 2006- Brussels, February 2007

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Action line 2: outcomes FLP

• make available a scenario for Transfer & Correspondence based on FLP

• presentation General Assembly, in Oslo on May 11th 2007

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Action line 3: activities & outcomes

• explore the possibilities for the use of ECTS/DS at postgraduate level and in CME looking for common determinants with undergraduate level

• focus on postgraduate training• common determinants between undergraduate and

postgraduate level are identified

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Action line 3: activities

• preliminary discussions• Oslo 24/02/06• Brussels 07/07/06

• first results• Murcia 29/9/2006

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Action line 3: outcomes

• presentation at General Assembly, in Oslo on May 11th 2007

• Presentation AMEE conference, in Trondheim August 2007

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Future meetings

• TF 4 meeting Oslo 11th May 2007

• TF 4 meeting Ankara September 2007

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Dissemination

• survey- Genoa, September 14-18, 2006- DAAD, Germany, January 25-26, 2007

• FLP- NDL-Vlaams overleg DMW-INT,

23-24 March 200626-27 October 200619-20 April 2007

• PG & CME- UEMS section Anesthesiology, August 2006

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Dissemination

• Qualifications- Universities UK, 10th April 2006, London- Conférence des doyens de France et de Belgique,

Brussels, 9th May 2007, Bologne en médecine- AMSE conference, 14 – 16 June 2007, Lisbon,

globalisation and the role of European Medical schools in the world