Saccades and pursuits at AMEE 2014

Academics gotta eat, too. The lunch crowd at AMEE 2014.

Last month, I was one of about 3,600 attendees representing 93 countries at the annual conference of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) in Milan, Italy. What a fascinating, enormous array of the state-of-the-art in health professions education over five days! The body of 1,699 works in medical education that were presented consisted of 531 short communications, 13 PhD dissertation reports, 42 themed research reports, 745 poster presentations, and 205 e-poster presentations, along with evidence-based, innovative medical education strategies tackled in 37 pre-conference workshops, 6 Meet-the-Expert sessions, 88 conference workshops, 8 Fringe presentations, as well as 3 plenary sessions, 22 symposia, and 66 meetings. My saccades and pursuits were challenged to the max with these 415 sessions! But, as one fellow delegate had reflected, the AMEE 2014 experience was, I quote: interesting, busy, and productive. More on the latest in health professions education in future posts.