THE AMEE Postgraduate Committee
The AMEE Postgraduate Committee was formed to raise the profile and coverage of Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME) in AMEE.
The Postgraduate Committee cooperate with other committees on research and on new and innovative developments at the AMEE conference, propose symposia/workshops each year that focus on crucial aspects of postgraduate medical education, and assist countries where postgraduate medical education is under developed.
Our Aims
The Postgraduate Committee has the following aims:
• Raise the profile and coverage of postgraduate medical education (PGME) in AMEE;
• To cooperate with other committees on research and new and innovative developments at the AMEE conference;
• Propose symposia/workshops each year that focus on crucial aspects of postgraduate medical education; and
• Assist countries where postgraduate medical education is underdeveloped.
The committee has an additional aim of ensuring diversity in all that it does. To this end it has ensured that members are drawn from a wide range of specialties and continents in particular ensuring both global south and north are represented and that members include also postgraduate trainees.
Our Projects
The Postgraduate Committee creates and leads presentations and papers that address key issues within postgraduate medical education and their solutions. The ongoing projects of the committee are:
- To collaborate in research projects related to assessment in PGME.
- To integrate other PGMEC members in a collaborative work to propose strategies to assist the countries where PGME is underdeveloped.
- To engage with and advise trainees who would like to get involved within the PGMEC/SIG and AMEE in general.
- To establish the PGMEC as a diverse and inclusive committee that drives forward scholarship and sharing of good practice in PGME.
Our Committee
Committee member portfolios include: awards, webinars, research and publication support, resources, our proposed newsletter, trainee/ resident engagement, postgraduate community engagement, and assessments.
Co-Chairs:
- Leila Niemi-Murola (Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Finland)
- Gustavo Salata Romão (Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Brazil)
Past Co-Chairs:
- Dr Rille Pihlak (Oncology, Estonia and UK)
- Prof Simon Gregory (General Practice, UK)
Honorary Secretary:
- Dr Juliana Sa (Medicine, Portugal)
Members and role:
- Awards – Hans Hjelmqvist (Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Sweden)
- Webinars – Leila Niemi-Murola (Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Finland)
- Research and publication support – Dimitri Parra (Paediatric Interventional Radiology, Canada)
- Newsletter editor – Wunna Tun (Emergency Medicine, Myanmar)
- Assessments – Marcelo Garcia Dieguez (Internal Medicine, Argentina)
- Community engagement – Gustavo Salata Romão (Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Brazil)
- Mohamed Hassan Taha, UAE
- Chung-Hsien Chaou, Taiwan
- Sara Reza, Pakistan