Changing patterns of health and illness with growing multi-morbidity and ageing societies create new demand for health and social care services and professional competences. Creating a sustainable and people-centred health workforce is increasingly recognised in Europe and globally as being key to adapting changing health systems. This session assesses four areas of research that explore how to make a future health workforce occur that is both sustainable and adaptive.

Selecting the “right” candidates for health professions education: why is it so difficult?

Prof. Gilles Dussault, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal

Changes in medical education in Bulgaria for the 21st century

Dr. Nikolai Hristov, Medical University Sofia, Bulgaria

Occupational Therapy Europe: The collaboration of academics, practitioners and researchers to promote and develop the delivery of occupational therapy services in Europe

Dr. Panagiotis Siaperas, European Network of Occupational Therapy in Higher Education (ENOTHE), Greece