The ECME is positioned to address how best to use existing knowledge to guide practice and develop new knowledge to enrich HPE while bridging the interface between undergraduate and graduate health professions education. It includes

• Use of artificial intelligence in health professions education
• Accreditation and quality of internship, residency and fellowship programs
• Assessment in postgraduate settings
• Specialty training governance and organization
• Regional and international collaboration for postgraduate medical education
• Innovations in the training of health professions education
• Interface of undergraduate and postgraduate health professions education
• Continuous professional development and recognition of prior learning (RPL)

• Stay updated with latest trends in Artificial Intelligence and its impact on health professions education
• Network with your peers in the fields of health professions education
• Present and showcase your work and research project or scholarly achievement
• Attend training and faculty development opportunities pertaining to professional development in key areas such as accreditation, training, and assessment
• Learn from NIHS experience and achievements in regulating and advancing residency education and professional development
• Update yourself on advancements and contemporary issues in residency education and medical education at large
• Gain Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit hours to support your licensing requirements and professional development

The two-day conference will involve keynote speeches, plenary sessions, and parallel sessions on the identified themes. A new feature this year will be to showcase research related to education.  Abstracts will be invited from researchers and will be showcased in oral and poster presentations after a systematic peer-review process.

The workshops shall be planned around the themes which need capacity building such as:

• Role of clinicians in training and assessment
• Artificial intelligence in medical education
• Competency frameworks and EPAs for postgraduate programs
• Assessment and examination for residency education
• Accreditation surveyors training
• Management skills for program directors

The conference targets a wide range of audience including:

• NIHS speciality committees’ members, surveyors, and associated personnel
• Training centers personnel including DIOs, program directors, and faculty
• Residents and fellows
• Clinical leaders and staff of health authorities who are responsible for training programs and health services management and delivery
• Educational leaders and faculty of medical schools and other health professions schools
• Researchers and wider health professionals with an interest in health profession education
• International participants with roles and interest in health professions education

The oversight and overall responsibility for the conference is the mandate of the Conference Organizing Committee to be chaired by the NIHS Secretary General. Members are expected to come from partner organizations and healthcare authorities. The Secretary General shall constitute a Scientific Committee with reviewers who serve as scientific experts for the themes, the contents, the call for abstracts and papers, the appraisal of submissions and sessions organizations. The conference may seek the expertise of a relevant venue and company to handle the advertisement, communications, and logistics.