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Report on Asia Pacific Medical Education conference in SINGAPORE By Dr Osborne E Nyandiva
- 1. Advisory Board Members, Singapore, January 2019 Conference Theme: Education for Health Trends, Issues, Priorities and Strategies REPORT ON ASIA PACIFIC MEDICAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE 2019 VENUE: NUS -SINGAPORE DATES: 6TH 14TH JANUARY 2019 Written by: Dr Osborne Embiruka Nyandiva b Introduction The Asia Pacific Medical Education body held a conference in National University of Singapore from 6th 14th January in Singapore. The conference was earmarked to address the needs of all medical institution under its umbrella. This attracted other organization that have had great impact on its improvement and accreditation of all medical school around the regions. Some of the organization that graced the occasion included Federation of World Medical Education (WFME), Australia New Zealand Colleges of Physicians, Western Pacific Association for Medical Education (WPAME), International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA) and many more. The conference drew close to 189 nationalities including Africa that was presented by Ethiopia. All the pacific small Islands participated of which Samoa was non exceptional. The photography shows the newly elected Western Pacific Association for Medical Education. The member state presented includes: Samoa, Fiji Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Laos, Japan, Cambodia, Mongolia, Korea and World Federation for Medical Education. Advisory Committee: President -Dr Dujeepa Samarasekera , Singapore Secretary General-Dr. Osborne Nyandiva Samoa Corporate Treasurer- Dr Shuh Shing Lee, Singapore Vice President Prof.Pete Ellis, New Zealand Past President Prof. Michael Field, Australia
- 2. Advisory Board Members, Singapore, January 2019 The Conference goals and Objective The Asian Pacific Medical Education Conference aimed at fostering and equalizing medical education across the Asia and pacific region by creating a caucus that will champion medical school accreditation and thus increasing the competitiveness of the education amongst the member states which will in turn improve quality of medical graduands. This was the 9th sittings of the Asian Pacific Medical Education Conference. For the first time since its inception Samoa had its representative under the umbrella of National University of Samoa Faculty of Health Sciences. Samoa was accorded cordial welcoming because over the days it had never attended any of the session that were held previously. This with majority votes from all the member states, the Samoa was voted to have its representative to Advisory Committee and equally appointed the representative Dr Osborne Embiruka Nyandiva as the General Secretary for the Western Pacific Association for Medical Education (WPAME). This was informed by the fact that the Samoa Representative having there for first time was able to shed on the improvements the National University of Samoa has tremendous had since the visitation by the (WPAME) following their recommendation. The Samoa Representative highlighted the milestone and, transitions and transformation the School of Medicine has gone through e.g. rejuvenation of Faculties, Infrastructures and learning environments away from before. Unanimously, the advisory Committee felt that by bringing to the board and endorsing the Representative would have positive impact that will equally transcends to great heights of improvement as the institution works toward accreditation Moments after presentations with Prof.Michael Field Some of Presentations The Short Communications, Posters and Presentation. National University of Samoa had four presentations and Fostering well-being in learning environment: the imperative of medical Educators was voted the first runners and the best short-communication. Other presentations included: Managing Hand Infection Without Antibiotic Pathologist Perspective Views, Managing Medical Trainees in Difficulty, Common and Real Pitfalls in Diagnostic Reasoning These were presentation by Dr Osborne Embiruka Nyandiva and moderated by Professor Michael Field. 9TH Session of WPAME. Welcoming of new Member States and inauguration of new Advisory Committee address by President Dr Dujeepa Samarasekera
- 3. Advisory Board Members, Singapore, January 2019 The Outcomes of the Conference The Asian Pacific Medical Education Conference has remained focused in bringing together all members states and through its authentical support, it has continued to foster excellent ties with all international accreditation bodies to its member organizations. Through the Western Pacific Association for Medical Education body, the advisory committee agreed to lobby other health institution tirelessly supports juvenile member states like Samoa and Laos. The advisory Committee also assured other great institutions of their support and work closely with them in order to set records for other members state to emulate. The Way Forwards Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference through its secretariat stated that, the conference will continue to be held annually and it argued the member states to continue working together with other governments agencies, WPAME, WFME and WHO by ensuring that, schools of medicine develop its procedures, policies, standards and curriculum that will be in compliance with the standards for accreditation as contained in The Principles of Accreditation: Foundations for Quality Enhancement. Following the (WPAME) Accreditation Fast-Track in 2017, advisory committees stated that it will assist National University of Samoa to achieve its goal to have all the medical undergraduate program get accredited soonest. The Samoa representative assured the member states that, School of Medicine believes that, through the rigorous accreditation policy, it will be able to ensure its academic programs are built with the capacity to improve student learning and make continuous school improvement a part of National University of Samoa s academic culture. References. 1. http://wpame.org.au/about/members/ 2. http://wpame.org.au/events/advisory-board-meetings/ 3. http://medicine.nus.edu.sg/cenmed/apmec16/documents/Addendum%20Conference%20Handbook.pdf Final Day Party for the Advisory Committee Members During the welcoming for all the member who had attended the WPAME 9th Session for the first Day and during the Poster presentations