SATURDAY, 26 JANUARY 2008

TIME

PROGRAM

VENUE

8.00 am

Registration

Foyer L1

9.00 am

9.10 am

9.30 am

Opening Ceremony

Welcome Address

Zubair Amin, Chairman, Organising Committee

Opening Address

Professor Tan Eng Chye
Provost and Deputy President (Academic Affairs)
National University of Singapore

Lecture 1 – Medical Education in the Face of the Changes in Global Healthcare

(H. Thomas Aretz, USA)

Moderator: Matthew Gwee, Singapore

Hall

10.15 am

Tea Break

Foyer L1

10.45 am

Lecture 2 – Transnational Medical Education: A Marriage of Convenience or an Arranged Marriage?

(Ronald Harden, UK)

Moderator: Chan Li Chong, Hong Kong

Hall

11.30 am

Free Communications

S1 –  Hall

S2 –  Theatre

S3 – Theatre Green Room

Session 1 (S1)

Session 2 (S2)

Session 3 (S3)

1.00 pm

Lunch

Poster Judging & Viewing

ESME Participants – Feedback with Faculty

Ronald Harden, Matthew Gwee & Zubair Amin

Foyer L1

Foyer L2

Theatre Green Room

2.00 pm

“Think Globally, Act Locally” Regional Symposium

• Responses to New Challenges Facing Medical Education in Thailand
  (Charas Suwanwela, Thailand) 
• Selection and Success: Are They Linked?  Reflections from Undergraduate and Graduate Entry
  (Ian Spence, Australia)
• Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Basic Medical Education in Indonesia
  (Hardyanto Soebono, Indonesia)
• Challenges of the Japanese Medical Schools Toward International Trends in Medical Education
  (Toshimasa Yoshioka, Japan)
• Vietnam Military Medical University - A Member of Vietnam Medical Universities in the Trend of Integrating with the Asia-Pacific Community: Challenges and Willingness
  (Nguyen Tien Binh, Vietnam)

Moderator: Zubair Amin, Singapore

Hall

3.30 pm

Tea Break

Foyer L1

4.00 pm

Lecture 3 - Failure of Research in Educational Technology to Inform Practice and What We Can Do About It

(David Cook, USA)

Moderator: Goh Poh Sun, Singapore

Hall

4.45 pm

Lecture 4 – Maximizing Learning Through Minimizing Cognitive Load: Implications for E-Learning

(Denise Dupras, USA)

Moderator: Koh Dow Rhoon, Singapore

5.30 pm –

9.00 pm

Conference Dinner

The Legends, Fort Canning Hill

SUNDAY, 27 JANUARY 2008

TIME

PROGRAM

VENUE

8.30 am

Registration

Hall

9.00 am

Lecture  5 – Cracks and Crevices in the Globalisation Discourse of Medical Education

(Brian Hodges, Canada)

Moderator: Ronald Harden, UK

9.45 am

Lecture 6 – A Common Global Educational Matrix for Tomorrow’s Highly Developed Health Systems

(Jamsheer Talati, Pakistan)

Moderator: H. Thomas Aretz, USA

10.30 am

Tea Break

Foyer L1

11.00 am

Lecture 7 –– Keeping the Ethical Contours: Medical Ethics in a Flat World

(Alastair Campbell, Singapore)

Moderator: Roy Joseph, Singapore

Hall

11.45am

Lecture 8 – Assessment and Multiple Choice Questions in a Flat World

(Athol Kent, South Africa)

Moderator: Dujeepa Samarasekera, Singapore

12.15pm

Lunch

Moderated Poster Viewing

ESME Participants – Feedback with Faculty

Ronald Harden, Matthew Gwee & Zubair Amin

Foyer L1

Foyer L2

Theatre Green Room

12.45 pm

Screening of Dr Margaret Chan’s Video “Diagnosis of Global Public Health”

Hall

1.30 pm

Symposium on Harmonisation, Quality Assurance, Standardisation & Accreditation

•  Experiences of Accreditation for Medical Education in Taiwan(Chi-Wan Lai, Taiwan)
•  Quality Assurance in Medical Education - Moving the Metrics Forward
  (Jeremy Lim, Singapore)
•  WFME Policy on International Recognition of Medical Schools’ Programmes
  (Hans Karle, Denmark)

Moderator : Tan Thiam Soon, Singapore

2.30 pm

Lecture 9 – Competency Based Surgical Education – Making of a Competent Surgeon

(Avinash Supe, India)

Moderator: N Patil, Hong Kong

Hall

3.15 pm

Tea Break

Foyer L1

3.45 pm

Lecture 10 – Students As Strategic Partners In Quality Management of Medical Education at the Carl Gustav Carus Faculty of Medicine, University of Technology Dresden, Germany

(Peter Dieter, Germany)

Moderator: Elaheh Malakan Rad, Iran

Hall

4.30 pm

Lecture 11 – The Future of Assessment

(John Norcini, USA)

Moderator: Lawrence Ho, Singapore

5.15 pm – 5.30 pm

Presentation of Awards for Best Oral and Best Poster Presentations & Closing Ceremony

Hall