This Focus Session is presented by IAMSE partner, AMEE. To learn more about AMEE, click here!

AMEE: The International Association for Health Professions Education has as its goal to help health professions educators around the world connect, grow, and inspire and be fully engaged in their work with colleagues around the world.  In this special AMEE at IAMSE Focus Session, four individuals who have participated in AMEE events will share their perspectives on the opportunities for medical science educators in expanding their interactions across the globe in activities related to health profession education. Aspects include sharing how engaging in committees with international participants and attending international meetings have broadened their professional networks, while enhancing their own international reputation (a criteria for promotion). Kim Dahlman (Vanderbilt) will highlight how these experiences reveal common challenges and shared aspirations among educators everywhere, fostering community, perspective, and momentum for career growth. Di Eley (University of Queensland, Australia) will share how membership on the AMEE research committee led to meeting new colleagues, increasing options to attend and present at conferences, and joining other associations e.g., IAMSE, ANZAHPE, APMEC, which provided further international networks including the unique IAMSE Ambassador Program. Neil Osheroff (Vanderbilt) will relate how international collaboration in medical education is not simply an act of giving, but is a reciprocal exchange that enriches the educator in unexpected and transformative ways. Finally, Lawrence Sherman (Meducate, LLC) will share his experience working with CPD educators across sub-Saharan Africa and his conviction that lifelong learning systems are strongest when every profession returns to their scientific foundations.