We are very pleased to announce that the 4th International Online Conference of Health Workforce Education will take place online from Wednesday 7th to Friday 9th January 2026. The event is the 4th iteration of our online conference since we started during 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.
Conference Theme: Future of Healthcare Education
Abstract Book (Coming Soon)
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 interprofessional 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 several 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 interprofessional teaching, competency-based training programmes, and clinical reasoning education techniques, but there is still much work to be done.
Registration is now open > https://inhwe.network/registration-online-2026/
Please note: the 4th International Online Conference of Health Workforce Education is free to attend, with a "Pay What You Want" model, which we hope will open the event up to our diverse and wide-ranging membership. The PWYW model helps us cover running costs but is in no way to be understood as an obligation for participants, who are more than welcome to attend the event entirely free of charge.
Registration deadline: online registration closes on Monday 5th January 2026. Late registrants can contact us at matteo.vezzosi@inhwe.org but we cannot guarantee requests made less than 48h prior to the event.
The INHWE Network is a free membership community that brings together healthcare educators and researchers from all disciplines with an aim to improve the education and training provided to health workforce professionals across the globe. Non-members are warmly invited to sign up on https://inhwe.network/ today and take advantage of our free services, discounts, and limited time offers for Members.
The INHWE Secretariat is working with the Editorial Board of The Aesculapius Journal to offer our authors and presenters the opportunity to have their paper published in a dedicated, special issue of the journal.
Founded by the University of South Dakota University Libraries and The USD Sanford School of Medicine, the Aesculapius publishes manuscripts from standard categories: original research, reviews, editorials, case reports and conference proceedings in basic science, clinical research, social aspects of healthcare, healthcare simulation, innovative teaching methods, leaner and program assessment, and healthcare policy making.
Journal Home: https://red.library.usd.edu/aesculapius/
Editorial Board: https://red.library.usd.edu/aesculapius/editorialboard.html
Support from the publishers allows us to offer the journal to all with open access and no fees. Upon selection, authors will be assisted and guided to get their papers published. The decision of whether or not any of the papers can be included in the Special Issue remains at the full discretion of the Editorial Board and is subject to the results of the peer review and the satisfactory completion of any revisions required.
To apply, just please tick the dedicated checkbox "Paper Publication Opportunity" in the online registration form. For questions and inquiries you can contact us at matteo.vezzosi@inhwe.org.
Presentation Protocol: please stick to the following guidelines in the preparation of your presentation.
Presentation Platform: Zoom
Zoom is a platform designed to offer complete unified communications maintaining high-quality standards. The web conferencing platform allows to seamlessly join meetings with either zoom software/app or zoom application in a web browser.
All presentations must be in English and will be presented live in real time. Presenters have a fixed time for giving their presentation. For the presentation of Abstracts/Short Papers the total time slot will be 10 minutes.
Sessions are designed in such a way as to possibly exceed the time limit, e.g. by taking advantage of post-session breaks. The aim is to ensure that all presenters have adequate time for their contribution and offer sufficient discussion space to answer any questions from the virtual audience.
Presentation requirements
Recommended equipment for presenting
To ensure the success of each session, technical support will be provided by the INHWE team.
Each day, 30 minutes before the first session of the day begins, an e-mail invitation will be sent with the following information:
Presentation format
When presenting your paper, you will be asked to share your screen. This means that there are no fixed rules on the presentation format. Having said that, the recommended format for presentations is either PowerPoint (type .pptx), Google Slides, or PDF. The recommended page set-up is landscape orientation, standard fonts.
The use of pre-recorded video content (e.g. videos uploaded to a PowerPoint) is possible, but not recommended due to the risk of incompatibility with your Laptop/PC setting. It sometimes happens that the video plays correctly on your screen but the audience cannot hear the sound of it. To avoid that, you might decide to use the chat box for sharing a hyperlink to your video content (e.g. on YouTube), so that the attendees can watch the video on their screens during the presentation or at a later date.
The deadline for abstract submission passed on Monday 17th November 2025.
Further submissions will not be accepted. You, however, in extraordinary cases can ask for a late submission by contacting us at: matteo.vezzosi@inhwe.org
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:
Teaching/Training: pedagogy, assessment methods, curricula, innovation, technology
Research: results from large-scale surveys, research projects, studies using innovative methods
Policy: new policy initiatives, future policy directions being pursued by governments and private/non-governmental organisations.
Conference Sub-Themes
Interprofessional Education
Communication, Person-Centred Approach, Holistic Care
Digital Skills and Technology in Healthcare and Education
Health Workforce Policy & Research
IPE in Southern Europe (SE-IPEN Sessions)
One Health
Leadership & Health Management
Research in the Education and Training of Health Professionals
