Programme

The Provisional programme is now available to download. The programme will be updated regularly. Content and timings are subject to change.

20 October, Registration 9:15 - 9:45
21 October, Registration 9:00-9:30
AM

Welcome

Welcome

AM

Keynote

Professor Colin Melville


Honorary Professor of Medical Education, University of Manchester and former Director of Education and Standards at the GMC.

Panel Discussion, Audience Q&A

AoME at 20: Reflecting on the Past, Responding to Change, Shaping the Future of Medical Education



AM

Break

Break

AM

Oral presentations in parallel

  • Enhancing learning, from reality to virtual reality
  • Neer-peer, online and scalable educational programmes
  • Foundation doctor education and transition to practice
  • Sustainability, global and community-focused education
  • Simulation and clinical skills training
  • Professional identity, careers and workforce experiences

Oral presentations in parallel

  • Artificial intelligence and digital innovation in medical education
  • Educational environment, learner experience and curriculum development
  • Research, scholarship and academic medicine
  • Surgical education and training
  • Inclusion, equity, diversity and wellbeing
  • Interprofessional and workforce development
PM

Lunch

Lunch

PM

Poster presentations

Poster presentations

PM

Workshops in parallel

  • One size does not fit all: Inclusive education strategies for neurodivergent doctors
  • From Global Consensus to Curricular Action: How Current Curricular Practices Must Evolve to Effectively Integrate Bioethics into Health Professions Education
  • Beyond Tick-Box Education: Rethinking Professional Development and Appraisal for Medical Educators
  • How to move from project idea to meaningful methods: supporting educators in healthcare improvement
  • The Art of History Taking: Five Minutes to Talk, Safeguarding Listening in High-Stakes Assessment


Workshops in parallel

  • Off the Scale: Choosing the Right Methodology to Evaluate Your Educational Intervention
  • Protecting reasoning and discussion in early years small group teaching through planned AI use
  • From Thought to Theatre: Building the Next Generation of Clinician Innovators in Surgery
  • Maintaining standards under pressure: feedback, entrustment and progression in workplace-based education
  • Humanising Education in Medicine: Reducing Othering and Safeguarding Belonging in Pressured Learning Environments
  • From Clinical Curiosity to Research Protocol: Designing Rigorous, Transparent and Publishable Research
  • Embedding Planetary Health into Personal Development Planning for Resident Doctors
PM

Break

Break

PM

Workshops in parallel

  • Scaling Peer Led EDI Education Through EDIFY in Postgraduate Medical Education
  • A Values-Based Approach to Educator Resilience: From Reflection to Action
  • Safeguarding Digital Professionalism in Health Professions Education
  • How to Sustain High-Quality Clinical Reasoning Assessment Using AI: A Practical Workshop on Script Concordance Testing (SCT)
  • Equipping our Educators: A DMEG Workshop on Building Confidence in Early Career Educators


Keynote


Professor Dame Jane Dacre


Lead of the Medical education and Training Review Phase 2, and Emeritus Professor of Medical Education at UCL

16:15 - 16:55

Calman Lecture 2026

Professor Arunthathi Mahendran

Founding Director of the SHAPE Institute for Health at Queen Mary University of London

Poster Prize Award and Wrap-up Day 2

16:55 - 17:00

Poster Prize Award and Wrap-up Day 1


17:00 - 17:20

AoME Awards presented by the President


17:15 - 18:30

President's Reception, all delegates and awardee's welcome


AoME 2026 Safeguarding Excellence in Health Professions Education has been approved by the Federation of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom for 12 category 1 (external) CPD credits.

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