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Resultados Concurso de Investigación en Educación en Ciencias de la Salud 2022

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En “Innovación Docente en Medicina” ASOFAMECH 2022, resulta ganador el proyecto titulado: Asignatura Interdisciplinaria de Prácticas de tipo vivencial para el cambio de actitudes hacia las personas mayores en estudiantes de pregrado de la Universidad de Valparaíso, de los autores: Claudia Angulo, Médica General, Escuela de Medicina, Universidad de Valparaíso, Marcelo Arancibia, Residente de Psiquiatría, Escuela de Medicina, Universidad de Valparaíso, Viviana García, Fonoaudióloga, Escuela de Fonoaudiología, Gerópolis, Universidad de Valparaíso, Javiera Basáez, Asistente Social, Gerópolis, Universidad. de Valparaíso, Mariane Lutz, Química Farmacéutica, Escuela de Medicina, Universidad de Valparaíso, Nelly Pérez, Geriatra, Servicio de Medicina, Hospital Carlos van Buren, Cristian Papuzinski, Otorrinolaringólogo, Escuela de Medicina, Universidad de Valparaíso.

En “Investigación en Educación Médica” ASOFAMECH 2022, resulta ganador el proyecto titulado: Impacto de la simulación clínica interdisciplinaria para la mejora en el trabajo en equipo de los estudiantes de Medicina y Obstetricia y Puericultura, Universidad de los Andes, de los autores: Benjamín Quezada (1), Andrea López (2) Manuel Donoso (3), Jeanette Barreau (4) 1: Universidad de Los Andes, Chile, Facultad de Medicina, Escuela de Medicina. 2. Universidad de Los Andes, Chile, Facultad de Enfermería y Obstetricia, Escuela de Obstetricia y Puericultura. 3: Universidad de Los Andes, Chile, Facultad de Medicina, Escuela de Medicina. 4: Universidad de Los Andes, Chile, Facultad de Enfermería y Obstetricia, Escuela de Obstetricia y Puericultura.

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New membership of the WFME Recognition Committee

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Members of the WFME Recognition Committee met over Zoom on 13 February 2023. Since Professor Stefan Lindgren’s tenure as chair had ended, the aim of the meeting was to elect a new chair and to discuss the current committee’s membership.

Professor Luis Sambo, representing the Africa region, was elected the committee’s new chair. Other members are as follows:

Americas: Doctor Angel Centeno
Eastern Mediterranean: Professor Zeinelabdin A Karrar
Europe: Professor David Gordon (new member)
South East Asia: Professor Usman Chatib Warsa
Western Pacific: to be selected

WFME Recognition Committee is a decision-making committee for the WFME Recognition of Accreditation Programme. The committee comprises six members in total; each member representing one of WFME regions.

Top row, L-R: Professor Ricardo León-Bórquez (WFME President), Jana Cohlová (Recognition Programme Manager), Professor Usman Chatib Warsa

Middle row, L-R: Professor Stefan Lindgren, Professor David Gordon, Professor Luis Sambo (a new chair)

Bottom row: Professor Angel Centeno

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Geneviève Moineau elected as next Vice-President of WFME

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The World Federation for Medical Education is very pleased to announce that Geneviève Moineau has been elected as the next Vice-President of WFME.  She will take office in January 2023 simultaneously with the new President, Ricardo León-Bórquez, for an initial four-year term.

Professor Moineau has worked closely with WFME for many years, as an assessor in the Recognition of Accreditation Programme, as the chair of several assessment teams, and as a lead speaker at the WFME Conference in Seoul in 2019.

She is President and CEO of the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC), where she has been influential in developing and delivering policies that have enhanced the breadth of medical education in Canada, and its relevance to society and to the delivery of health care.  She has had a long association with the accreditation of medical education in Canada, including being past Secretary for the Committee on the Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS).  She has also been Vice-President of the Pan-American Federation of Associations of Medical Schools (PAFAMS).

Professor Moineau is an MD graduate of the University of Ottawa and completed her Pediatric Residency at the University of Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. She is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the University of Ottawa and practices Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario.

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  • CHILE / ARGENTINA / HALIFAX CANADA

    GMT-03:00

  • RD / PR / VEN / BOL / USA-CANADA (HORA DEL ESTE)

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  • PERÚ / ECUADOR / COLOMBIA / PANAMÁ

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  • COSTA RICA / GUATEMALA MEX

    GMT -06:00

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