3rd International Online Conference of Health Workforce Education
Wednesday 8th to Friday 10th January 2025, Online
We are very pleased to announce that the 3rd International Online Conference of Health Workforce Education will take place online on Wednesday 8th, Thursday 9th and Friday 10th January 2025. The event is the 3rd iteration of our online conference since we started since the covid pandemic. This three day event is held to promote interdisciplinary, intercontinental co-operation and critical understanding of the latest research and practice in the field of health workforce education, training and development. The event is free to attend, with a PWYW model, which we hope will open this event up to our diverse and wide ranging membership.
Conference Theme: Future of Healthcare Education
During a time of great change for global healthcare systems the future education of healthcare professionals is key to ensuring long term sustainability for populations. International institutions have called for policies that allow for the education of flexible health professionals capable of dealing with the ever-changing healthcare environment. A multi-stakeholder and inter-professional approach to tackling this issue is paramount to ensuring this takes place. Educators must ensure that they employ the most effective teaching methods, researchers must identify the right skill combinations for future professionals, and policy makers must make effective changes to national and international planning and legislation.
The health workforce faces a number of complex challenges at local, national and global levels. At the global level, a key challenge is the increasing number of mobile healthcare workers who are challenging country-based health workforce education and planning. At a national scale, research projects have identified that education and training must adapt to the skill requirements needed to keep the health workforce compatible with policy plans. Therefore, at a local level, educators must assess their curricula, the approaches they take to teaching and the assessment methods that they implement. The health workforce education community is already attempting to address some of these challenges, for example by moving towards inter-professional teaching, competency based training programmes, and clinical reasoning education techniques, but there is still much work to be done.
The INHWE Online Conference of Health Education and Research encourages participants to discuss the diverse possibilities and challenges of "Future Education of Healthcare Professionals" with international colleagues. The online event would welcome presentations adopting local, national and/or international perspectives on:
Conference Sub-Themes
Read the Call for Abstracts here.
Submit your abstract online via the dedicated portal at https://inhwe.org/abstract-submission
