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Association of American Medical Colleges
112th Annual Meeting
Washington, DC

The AAMC's Annual Meeting, the nation's premiere program for medical educators, was held November 2-7, 2001 at the Hilton Washington and Towers and the Omni Shoreham Hotels in Washington, D.C. For more information on this event, please visit the website of the AAMC.

The Task Force reviewed the ground rules and principles of assessment from the initial Task Force meeting and was in agreement that student outcome evaluations will be used as the means of determining if schools meet minimum essentials requirements.

The second meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Institute for International Medical Education was convened on October 1-2, 2001 in New York under the Chairmanship of Dr. M. Roy Schwarz.

Association for Medical Education in Europe
Annual Conference 2001
"Medical Education and Standards at a Time of Change"
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

The conference was attended by approximately 800 participants from over 50 countries. During the conference, Drs. Wojtczak and Schwarz presented the outline of the project developed by the IIME. Their presentation, which was very well received, detailed the progress of the IIME and the concept of global essential requirements.

For more information, please see the website of the Association for Medical Education in Europe.

The first meeting of the Task Force reviewed the purpose of Phase 2 of the IIME Project and established a set of working ground rules for discussion, and clarified the assumptions under which the assessment tools would be chosen and specified principles under which the assessment tools would be developed.

The Steering Committee meeting was chaired by M. Roy Schwarz, and attended by all members. The Steering Committee reviewed the outcomes of the Core Committee meeting and expressed deep appreciation for its hard work and results.

The third meeting of the IIME Core Committee was chaired by Dr. Marvin Dunn. The main task of the Committee was finalization of the "Global Minimum Essentials Requirements" (GMER) and agreement of the content and formulation of the document.

 

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