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Subject: OTTAWA CONFERENCE SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT


Dear colleagues,

  We are very pleased to make available the SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT of the next
  11th International Ottawa Conference on Medical Education to be held in
  Barcelona from July 6th to July 8th, 2004.

   Please, look at the following updated version of the Conference Programme
  and at the general information displayed at the conference web site.

   Remember that you can submit your abstracts through the Conference web
site
   and that the deadline for receipt of Abstracts is 15th March 2004.

   As said earlier, we look forward to seeing you in Barcelona, where we
hope
   you will enjoy the 11th Ottawa Conference, the beautiful city of
Barcelona,
   and the 2004 UNESCO Forum of Cultures, which is to be held in Barcelona
  during the same time period as the Conference.


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   Ramon Pujol-Farriols JM Martínez-Carretero
   President of the 11th International President of the Organizing Committee
   Ottawa Conference, Barcelona 2004   11th International Ottawa Conference,
   and of the Catalan Medical    Barcelona 2004
   Education Association (ACEM) Institute of Health Studies
   Passeig de la Bonanova, 51   Balmes, 132-136
   08017 Barcelona 08008 Barcelona
   Spain Spain
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   Phone: 34 (93) 2607699 Phone: 34 (93) 2386904
   Fax: 34 (93) 2607967 Fax: 34 (93) 2386910




   11th International Ottawa Conference on Medical Education
   July 4 - 8, 2004
   Barcelona

   PREPARING HEALTH PROFESSIONALS FOR THE FUTURE
   Programme

   Methods
   Plenary sessions
   Parallel panel discussions
   WorkshopsCommunications
   Posters

   THEMES
   1. E- LEARNING, INFORMATICS AND SIMULATIONS.
   1.1 New educational technologies to support teaching and learning
   Information technology
   Distance learning
   Simulations
   1.2 Their impact on the role of teachers and students, and on teacher
   training
   Teachers training to face these new educational challenges

  2. INTRODUCING PROFESSIONALISM INTO OUR PROFESSIONS
   2.1 What does it mean for our professions?
   2.2 Teaching and learning professionalism
   2.3 Educating for leadership
   Introducing change
   Managing change
   Changing the change

   3. ONGOING AND NEW CHALLENGES FOR TEACHERS AND LEARNERS
   3.1 Teaching as an academic endeavour
   3.2 Teaching clinical reasoning, decision making, critical thinking
   3.3 New roles for teachers and learners
   3.4 Developing self-evaluation, life long learning habits, and
professionalism
   3.5 Multi-professional education. Team-learning, team-work: learning
  together to work together

   4. SOCIETAL NEEDS AND SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY
  4.1 Role of public in health-professionals' education
  Impact of communication media on doctor patient relationship
  Role of public in identifying health care needs
  4.2 Impact of social and demographic changes on medical education
  Barriers to overcome, opportunities to seize
  Educating health professionals to face these changes
  4.3 Education to meet community needs
  New models of community oriented health professional education
 Responsibility of academic institutions as health care stakeholders

  5. BEME
  5.1 Impact of BEME on research in Medical Education
  5.2 Is there a need for new directions in the research agenda?

 6. ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION
  6.1 Student evaluation
  Assessing competencies for ensuring professional competency
  New methods of assessing clinical competency (life beyond OSCE)
  6.2 Teacher/program evaluation
  The effective use of student evaluation of teachers
  Planning and implementing program evaluation
 6.3 Outcomes of medical education
  Evaluating undergraduate and postgraduate education and practice: Lessons,
  pitfalls and questions
  6.4 Evaluating for patient safety
  Quality of health care
  Role of the patient in assuring safe health care
  The effect of the quality of health care outcomes on educational needs

  7. CURRICULAR REFORM
  7.1 The need for curricular reform
  Strategies for identifying pertinent outcomes
  Best evidence for improving outcomes of curricular reform
  Setting up standards as a tool to upgrade medical education

  Special subject:
 Ottawa Conference 10 years from now: Totally virtual?  by Ian Hart


 11th International Ottawa Conference on Medical Education
 Scientific Committee

  President
 Carlos A. Brailovsky

  Secretary
  Josep Arnau