Looking forward to meeting you in Padova

What doctors do today is not that same as they will do in ten, twenty or forty years from now. We need to understand how medical practice will change, and how medical schools should be ready to evolve to meet these changes.

Doctors may not need, in the future, to undertake all their traditional roles, while other new roles may emerge instead. Societies need to understand what it is that only doctors can do and what can or should be done by other members of the health care team. When we have developed a policy and philosophy for the future global role of the doctor we can understand what medical schools and medical education will need to do, to produce a person equipped to fulfil that role.

The conference will look at these questions both in breadth and in depth:

• What kind of medical profession will there be, and what subjects should be in the curriculum?
• How many medical students will we need?
• Can we predict which technological challenges we will have to face?
• Which will be the challenges of a changing society?
• How will medical migration will effect the future?
• Skills in professionalism; management; social accountability; leadership; and more, will be considered.

The Conference theme relates to the World Federation for Medical Education project on the future global role of the doctor, and the conclusions of the AMSE Conference will feed in to the WFME World Conference in Malmö, Sweden, in November 2012.

Curious for more information? Write to: info.amse2012@unipd.it

The Association of Medical Schools in Europe creates a forum for European Medical Faculties to share experiences in the fields of education, research and management. AMSE seeks to stimulate co-operation between Medical Schools in Europe and to initiate and sustain relations with other professional, governmental and non-governmental organisations in education, research and health care.