Meeting of the Steering Committee
May 4-5, 2001
White Plains, New York |
The Steering Committee meeting was chaired by M. Roy Schwarz, and attended by all members: Charles Boelen, Charles Dohner, Huang Jie-Fu, Pablo Pulido, Geirmund Unsgaard, Marvin Dunn and Andrzej Wojtczak The Steering Committee reviewed the outcomes of the Core Committee meeting and expressed deep appreciation for its hard work and results. Although the Core Committee completed the task of defining the GMER, all members were supportive to the proposal of the IIME that it should stay to play important role in reviewing the outcomes of the work of the Task Force and in evaluating of the outcomes of the GMER pilot implementation in China. The Committee fully supported the final version of the GMER document and made suggestions to its final format, way of its dissemination and translation to other languages. Supporting the establishment of the Task Force for Assessment, they proposed some experts to serve on it and also support involvement of the NBME in assessment of graduates' competencies.
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Discussion after presentation of Professor Huang Jie-Fu on the forthcoming reforms of Chinese medical education stressed that the planned assessment of graduates' competencies will help to introduce reforms with impact on quality of medical education. The Committee fully supported presented by Drs Schwartz and Wojtczak an outline of planned preparatory activities related to implementation of GMER in China.
Considering cooperation with the WFME, it was said that although the WFME and the IIME projects are both aiming at the improvement of the quality of medical education, they differ very substantially in conceptual design and should not be merged at that stage of development.
Institute for International Medical Education.
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