PROGRAMME

THURSDAY 5

 Morning

8:30	Registration . Hall Faculty of Medicine
09:00	Pre-Conference workshop. Seminari 4 (4th floor )
	By MEDINE Quality Task force members
	European specifications of the WFME Global standards for quality improvement in Medical Education (3 hours) (more information) REGISTRATION
11:00	Pre-Conference workshop Seminari 4A (4th floor )
	By Terence Stephenson, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham , Ms Alison Johns, Head of Leadership, Governance and Management at the Higher Education Funding Council for England, and Professor David Gordon, President of AMSE.
	Leadership in Academic Medicine (5,30 hours) (more information) REGISTRATION
13:00	Pre-Conference workshop . Seminari 2 (2nd floor )
	By Mostafa Selim. Cairo University
	Practical items for the implementation of standards at the postgraduate level (3 hours) (more information) REGISTRATION

Afternoon

18:00	Welcome Ceremony and Opening Lecture at the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia
	Blanca Palmada. Commissioner of Universities and Research Government of Catalonia
	Josep Samitier. Rector of University of Barcelona
	M Teresa Estrach. Dean of Faculty of Medicine
	Josep Carreras. Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia
	Andrzej Wojtczak. AMSE Foundational President(will the introduced by Prof. Antonio Campos, AMSE Honorary member)
	From AMDE to AMSE: how we started and where we go?
	Cocktail Reception

FRIDAY 6

 Morning

8:30 Registration. Hall Faculty of Medicine

IMPLEMENTING QUALITY ASSURANCE: FROM EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION (ENQA) TO MEDICAL SCHOOLS .

Chair persons:

David Gordon. AMSE President
M Teresa Estrach. Dean Faculty of Medicina. UB
Rosa M Martí. Organizer Committee member. UdL

9:00	Séamus Puirséil. ENQA speaker, HETAC Chief Executive (Ireland)
	Increasing importance of quality assurance in higher education: overview” (30 min)
	António Manuel Bensabat Rendas. EUA speaker. Rector Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) (15 min)
	Are Medical Schools & Programmes a challenge?
	Teresa Sanchez. National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA) (Spain)(15 min)
	Standard setting and benchmarking
	Joan Viñas. Rector Universitat de Lleida . General Secretary of the Association of Medical Schools in Europe: (15 min)
	Quality management implementation at University
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Paul de Roos. MEDINE Quality Task Force member and student voice
	Quality improvement and accreditation processes - the role of students”
	David Gordon .AMSE President (15 min)
	Collaborations with WFME for Quality Improvement on Medical Education in Europe
12:00	AMSE General Assembly
13:00	Lunch

Afternoon

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AND ACCREDITATION OF MEDICAL SCHOOLS AND PROGRAMMES

Chair persons:

Iskender Sayek. WFME representative (Turkey)
Jadwiga Mirecka. Vice-president of the Accreditation Commission for Medical Universities in Poland , Jagiellonian University Medical College
Maria Nolla. Organizer Committee member. UAB

14:30	M. Rosa Fenoll. AMSE delegate in MEDINE Thematic Network, Quality Task Force co-chair (30 min)
	European Specifications of the Global Standards for Quality Improvement in Medical Education.
	Leif Christensen. Copenhagen University (Denmark) (15 min)
	Survey of Accreditation and Quality Improvement methods for Medical Education programmes in the European Region
	Jim McKillop as General Medical Council speaker, Deputy Executive Dean of Glasgow Medical School (UK) (15 min)
	Accreditation models for Medical Programmes in the United Kingdom
	Small group discussion. Moderator: Iskender Sayek. WFME representative (Turkey) (45 min.)
	Identify best practices and make recommendations to implement standards for quality assurance in Medical Schools
17:00	Concluding remarks & General discussion
20:00	Gala Dinner

SATURDAY 7

8:30 Registration. Hall Faculty of Medicine

Morning

IMPLEMENTING QUALITY ASSURANCE IN MEDICAL SCHOOLS AND PROGRAMMES

Chair persons:

Ilka Välimaki. AMSE Executive Committee member, Turku University. Finland
Carmen Gomar. AMSE Organizer Committee member. UB
Josep Carreras. AMSE Organizer Committee member. UB

9:00	Jadwiga Mirecka. Vice-president of the Accreditation Commission for Medical Universities in Poland , Jagiellonian University Medical College (15 min)
	Setting internal Quality assurance systems
	Madalena Patricio. President of the Association of Medical Education in Europe (Portugal) (15 min)
	Students' self-assessment: the first step for Quality improvement (15 min)
	Zdravko Lackovic. President of ORPHEUS - Organisation for PhD Education in Biomedicine and Health Sciences in the European System (Croatia) (15 min)
	Quality improvement in European PhD programmes in biomedicine and health sciences
	Carlos Sancho. Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas. CIEMAT (Spain) (15 min)
	Accreditation of research laboratories according to ISO-UNE 9000-9001”
10:30	Coffee-Break
IMPLEMENTING QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HEALTH RESEARCH
11:00	Antoni Trilla. Professor of Public Health University of Barcelona (Spain) Member of the Accreditation Committee - Instituto de Salud Carlos III (15 min)
	Quality assessment in biomedical research: The accreditation process for Biomedical Research Institutes in Spain
	Josep Grifoll. Head of quality assesment area of the Quality Assurance Agency for the University System in Catalonia (Spain) (15 min)
	Designing programmes in Health Sciences
IMPLEMENTING QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HEALTH SYSTEMS AND SERVICES
12:00	David Marx. Praga (Czeck Republic)
	Quality Assurance in health care and in medical school: paralles, similarities and differences (15 min)
	Albert Jovell President of the Spanish Forum of patients (15 min)
	Patients rights and wills to participate into EU political decisions to improve Health Systems
12:30	Posters View
13:00	Lunch

Afternoon

CERTIFICATION METHODS IN DIFFERENTS SETTINGS

Chair persons:

Joan Viñas . AMSE Secretary. Rector of Lleida University
Andrzej Wojtczak. AMSE Foundational President
Albert Torras. Rapporteur AMSE Organizer Committee member UB

14:30	Th.M.G. van Berkestijn, M.D. Ministry of HealthWelfare and Sports. Committee Foreign Degree Holders Health Care Chairman (The Netherlands) (15 min)
	ECFMG programme: a quality tool for incoming non-EU medical Doctors to EU? Experiences from implementing the ECFMG programme in The Netherlands
	James A. Hallock, M.D. Educational Comission for Foreign Medical Graduates President & CEO (USA) (15 min)
	Records from EU Medical Schools at ECFMG programme by Country
	José Peinado. Spanish National Conference of Medical School Deans Speaker (15 min)
	The MIR exam. Access way to medical practice into Spain public Health Services
	Josep Carreras Barcelona Univ. Med School former Dean (Spain) (15 min)
	Assessment of undergraduate medical education competences
16:00	AMSE 2008 Conference Concluding Remarks
	Approval of the Barcelona declaration on Quality
	Improvement of Medical Schools
	Chair persons: David Gordon . AMSE President M Teresa Estrach. Dean Faculty of Medicine UB Corália Vicente. AMSE Executive Committee
	Information about future AMSE Conferences