AMEE
The Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) is a worldwide organisation with members in 90 countries on five continents. Members include teachers, educators, researchers, administrators, curriculum developers, deans, assessors, students and trainees in medicine and the healthcare professions.
AMEE was founded in 1972 in Copenhagen, to foster communication among medical educators and to help promote national associations for medical education throughout Europe. AMEE is the European regional association of the World Federation for Medical Education and a member of the WFME Executive Council. Several European national medical education associations are corporate members of AMEE. Over the past decade AMEE has developed steadily both in size and in the sphere of its activities and is now a worldwide association with members and contacts in over 90 countries.
AMEE promotes international excellence in education in the healthcare professions across the continuum of undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education. AMEE, working with other organisations, supports teachers and institutions in their current educational activities and in the development of new approaches to curriculum planning, teaching and learning methods, assessment techniques and educational management, in response to advances in medicine, changes in healthcare delivery and patient demands and new educational thinking and techniques.
AMEE promotes excellence in medical education internationally by:
- Promoting the sharing of information through networking, conferences, publications and online activities
- Identifying improvements in traditional approaches and supporting innovation in curriculum planning, teaching and learning, assessment and education management
- Encouraging research in the field of healthcare professions education
- Promoting the use of evidence-informed education
- Setting standards for excellence in healthcare professions education
- Acknowledging achievement both at an individual and an institutional level
- Recognising the global nature of healthcare professions education
- Influencing the continuing development of healthcare professions education through collaboration with relevant national, regional and international bodies