2. AMSE - collaboration with WFME, and others, for our common aims in Europe
David Gordon
President, Association of Medical Schools in Europe
and
University of Copenhagen

3. Background to this talk
AMSE and WFME in MEDINE
With which organisations do we work, and why?
Other partnerships – ORPHEUS (biomedical PhD standards in Europe), the Nordic Research Conference, and more
The Avicenna project
For whose benefit?

4. Our highly successful partnership with WFME on quality standards is an example of joint working for the common good
AMSE is concerned with all the activities of the medical school – teaching, of course, but also research, the interaction with health care, the university...

5. The Nordic Research Conference
3. Working with ORPHEUS (Aarhus, April 2009, and AMSE 2009)
The Nordic Research Conference

6. “The Avicenna Directories: where and how - and how well - the world’s professionals in health care are educated”
Why is AMSE involved in mapping all the world’s medical schools, not just in Europe?
(- a convergence of interests: contact data, quality assurance, healthcare planning etc)
Lancet Vol. 371
22 March 2008 pp

7. In all these examples, we are – and must be – working to help all
This means not just for the good of the organisations involved, but for general benefit.

8. Someone said…. “Quality Assurance is an essential tool
Because of the Bologna process
Because of the Lisbon objectives
Because of its impact on strengthening institutions
and
QC and QA will ensure:
Trust
Transparency
Improvement of quality levels”

9. ... and he should have said Quality Assurance is an essential tool
- for improvement of quality levels
- to strengthen institutions
- to improve transparency and to enhance trust
- and because of the Bologna process
- and because of the Lisbon objectives

10. It will be good to see you..
- in Zagreb 2009
- in Berlin 2010