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How many volunteers were present at the Congress? : |
According to the amee conference report about 3500 |
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Delegates from which countries presented in the congress? : |
It was an international conference and many people from other countries including UK, Canada, USA, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Japan, Taiwan, India, and Singapore have attended in the conference. |
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Were the delegates of any other organizations present in the congress? : |
Yes |
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If yes, please write the names of the organizations in the box : |
Plenty of organizations were presented such as NBME, Cardiff University, and so on. |
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What were the responses to your talking points? Were specific questions or concerns raised? : |
The chairperson of poster presentation session has appreciated our efforts for designing and conducting the study. Some questions have been raised by some audiences about how we use this model for assessing medical students’ critical thinking skills in our curriculum and what the elements of critical thinking are in medicine. |
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If you met staff members, please list their full names & positions. : |
Dr. Kathleen Kendall (Associate Professor in Sociology as Applied to Medicine within Medicine at the University of Southampton in the UK), Junichiro Miya chi (director of family medicine at Kyoto University) |
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Please inform us if there are any follow up actions we need to talk with the members of the congress : |
If you ask me whether any follow-up actions need to talk with the members of the Congress or not, I can say that there was no need to follow up in this regards. So, Honestly speaking, my answer is simply No. |
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Your experiences about the travel processes(Providing ticket, accommodation,...) : |
The registration fee of the conference and pre-conference workshops was very high and it causes some difficulties for participants. Furthermore, some challenges in getting Schengen visa from European embassies in Iran can be mentioned. I highly recommend that the people who are interested in attending the conference which is held in European countries should apply for the visa as soon as possible. |
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Please give a briefing of your own observations and outcomes of the congress: : |
AMEE conference is held annually with about 20 to 30 parallel sessions, including Ph.D. report sessions, symposia, pre-conference workshops, plenaries, Mounted Poster Presentation, e-poster, and research papers, short communications, round table, etc. In this conference, I had a poster presentation about the assessment of critical thinking in medical students. If I would reflect on it, it seems clear that we need to interact with others in this filed. I attended the Ph.D. sessions in which Ph.D. students, all around the world, have presented their work in the best way. It gives me some new ideas to conduct some research in our university. In sum, In my opinion, I guess I would have to say there are a few clear benefits. But I would probably say that for the most part the one thing really stands out is that this is an enormous international conference in the field of medical education and there are many opportunities to learn how to use the best knowledge of medical education into practice. But I think it is fair to say that there are some challenges in participating the amee conference. I believed that the most important difficulty would be that although it provides a wide range of programs for participants, selecting appropriate sessions can be challenging especially without using Guidebook software. |