ESME Masterclasses
Choose from one of three exclusive pre-conference, in-person, ESME Masterclasses designed to enhance your skills and deepen your expertise.
- CPD Masterclass: What’s New in CPD? Best practices for designing, delivering, and assessing CPD activities.
- Research Masterclass: Introduction to Health Professions Education Research – essentials for educators starting their research journey.
- Clinical Teaching Masterclass: Practical strategies to strengthen your clinical teaching impact.
Registered delegates attending the AMEE 2025 in person conference can sign up for these masterclasses through the registration website.
What’s New in CPD? Using Best Practices to Design, Deliver, and Assess CPD Activities
This masterclass will be run in an interactive workshop format and will feature large and small group sessions that will address the specific needs of the participants in attendance. The faculty will address current trends in CPD including:
- Frameworks for designing and evaluating CPD activities
- Discussing higher level educational CPD outcomes by design
- Interprofessional Continuing Education – CPD for the team, by the team
- Global trends in CPD
CPD Educator Competencies (Differentiating from Undergraduate and Postgraduate Faculty)
By the end of the interactive Masterclass, participants will be better able to:
- Incorporate global best practices in CPD design, delivery, and assessment in their own practice settings.
- Describe new and innovative approaches to enhance their CPD programs, practices, and activities.
- Select, prepare, and utilize the appropriate health professions educators in designing and delivering CPD activities.
- Identify opportunities to refine or improve their own CPD practices.
Course format
The course will be delivered as a half-day masterclass for face-to face delegates. The course language is English, but the pace will be suitable
for participants whose first language is not English. Participants will have access to a bank of online resources, and those who wish to will be able to complete additional ESME modules and/or Masterclasses and submit an assessment, leading to award of the AMEE-ESME Certificate.
Date: Saturday, 23rd August 2025
Time: 1330-1700 hrs
Location: CCIB, Barcelona, Spain
Fee: €135
Registered delegates attending the AMEE 2025 in person conference can sign up for this masterclass through the registration website.
Course Faculty:
President, Meducate Global, LLC, a US-based organization involved in the assessment of global healthcare education systems worldwide, faculty development for educators of healthcare professionals, and support of continuing professional development in healthcare worldwide. Lawrence also holds an International Development position with AMEE.
Chairperson of the AMEE-CPD Committee, a member of the ASPIRE award panel and a fellow of AMEE. She was also the chairperson of the education committee and a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Alliance for Medical Education. Dr Aboulsoud is a member of the Academy of Medical Educators, and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy of the UK. Dr Samar is widely published and a regular presenter at international medical education conferences. Amongst many awards and recognitions; she was selected as one of the best 100 chief executive officers in the Arab world and was granted the British Council UK alumni award in professional achievement.
Introduction to Health Professions Education Research
A mini-Masterclass of essentials for educators
This half-day workshop is comprehensive and covers all methodologies that are most relevant to medical education research. This Research Masterclass serves as both an introduction and a refresher to anyone involved in medical education.
This Masterclass will start with providing a basic introduction to the major research traditions including the research paradigms/theories/world views and considerations around how to choose an appropriate research design, and the ethical implications of medical education research. This will be followed by interactive presentations on the fundamentals of the research process and how research questions are answered through appropriate theoretical approaches and designs.
These discussions will include specific presentations on Quantitative study design; Qualitative study design; Systematic/Scoping Review and critical appraisal of literature to synthesise evidence; and Mixed methods study design. Interspersed between each discussion will be small group / hands-on activities to illustrate each methodology and/or design. Speakers will use real-world examples and discuss how to operationalise a research question into a research plan.
The workshop will conclude with a final activity and/or reflection by all participants who may choose to focus on a specific methodology of interest. This may be through small group ideas or reflections on how to approach a specific research problem. Whole group discussion will be encouraged.
Intended Outcomes
This Medical Education Research Masterclass aims to provide participants with an overview and understanding of:
- Major research traditions and theoretical approaches
- Different research designs and data collection approaches
- How to operationalise a research question into a research plan (proposal)
Who Should Participate
Early- to mid-career clinical and academic faculty, and students of all levels will find the most value in the workshop’s content.
Phase of Education
All educational levels will find value in this workshop.
Level of Workshop
Introductory
Course format
The course will be delivered as a half-day masterclass for face-to face delegates. The course language is English, but the pace will be suitable for participants whose first language is not English.
Participants will have access to a bank of online resources, and those who wish to will be able to complete additional ESME modules and/or Masterclasses and submit an assessment, leading to award of the AMEE-ESME Certificate.
Date: Saturday, 23rd August 2025
Time: 0900-1230hrs
Location: CCIB, Barcelona, Spain
Fee: €135
Registered delegates attending the AMEE 2025 in person conference can sign up for this masterclass through the registration website.
Course Faculty:
Professor Amudha Poobalan, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom (Lead facilitator)
Dr Tanya Horsley, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Canada
Dr Christy Noble, Associate Professor, University of Queensland, Australia
Professor Di Eley, University of Queensland, Australia
Dr Mikio Hayashi, Kansai Medical University, Japan
Dr Paula Feder-Bubis, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Essential Skills in Clinical Teaching (ESMECT)
A Masterclass
Teaching in the clinical environment is defined as teaching and learning focused on, and usually directly involving, patients and their problems.
Clinical teachers have a dual role in healthcare, to provide patient care and to teach.
Clinical teaching is a demanding and complex task, a task many health professions educators assume without adequate preparation or orientation.
The various settings (ward, ambulatory, urban or community) have their own distinct challenges. In these settings, essential patient care skills such as history taking, physical examination, patient communication and professionalism are inculcated, bench knowledge applied to the bedside, motivation and self-directed learning take on a new meaning.
In acknowledgment of the complexity of clinical teaching, the educational strategies will employ a non-prescriptive behavioural approach to enhancing teaching skills. Participants will learn to select effective teaching strategies, including effective use of technology and artificial intelligence, while taking into account many variables such as the content, the learners, and the context.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Select the right strategy for different clinical teaching situations (inpatient or ambulatory settings, bedside teaching, different levels of learners, content to be taught such as history taking, physical examination, clinical reasoning etc)
- Apply core principles of time-efficient teaching in busy clinical work environments
- Understand and apply direct observation to assess learners’ knowledge, skills and attitudes directly related to patient care
- Reflect on and practice skills for effective feedback
- Role-model effective use of technology and critical human skills in clinical care
Who should participate
This course will focus on core topics in clinical teaching and is intended for clinicians who teach pre-registration students (medical / nursing etc) and post-registration trainees (physician, nursing etc) in ward, outpatient as well as simulation and conference settings. In addition, educators who organise staff development for clinical teachers will benefit from participation.
Course format
The course will be delivered as a half-day masterclass for face-to face delegates. The course language is English, but the pace will be suitable for participants whose first language is not English.
Participants will have access to online resources and a bibliography, and those who wish to will be able to complete additional ESME modules and/or Masterclasses and submit an assessment, leading to the award of the AMEE-ESME Certificate.
Date: Sunday, 24th August 2025
Time: 1330-1700 hrs
Location: CCIB, Barcelona, Spain
Fee: €135
Registered delegates attending the AMEE 2025 in person conference can sign up for this masterclass through the registration website.
Course Faculty:
Subha Ramani, MBBS, MPH, MMEd, PhD, FAMEE is Immediate Past President of AMEE; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Adjunct Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Health Professions; Director of Assessment and Scholars in Medical Education Pathway, Internal Medicine Residency Programme; Assistant Director, Educational Science, Brigham Education Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Boston, MA, USA
Dr. James Kwan, MBBS, BSc (Hons), MMed (ClinEpi), MHPE, MRCSEd, FACEM, FRCEM, FAMS; Senior Consultant, Department of Emergency Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital; Chair, Immediate Past President, Core Curriculum and Education Committee, International Federation for Emergency Medicine; Adjunct Associate Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Adjunct Asst. Professor, Emergency Medicine, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
Dr. Jean E. Klig, MD, FAAP: Director, Clinical Learning Coaching Program, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Paediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Director of Undergraduate Education, Paediatric EM Division, Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Educator Course Faculty, Harvard Macy Institute, Boston, USA
Professor. Harish Thampy, BSc. (Hons), MB. ChB. (Hons), FRCGP, DFRSH, DRCOG, MSc. (Med Ed) PFHEA; GP & Professor of Medical Education; Associate MBChB Programme Director (Assessments), Division of Medical Education, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK