Format and content

Pre-conference workshops

Plenaries

Symposia

Oral presentations

Poster presentations

Conference workshops

Commercial and academic exhibition

Content areas for abstract submissions include:

• Written assessment
• Assessment of clinical competence
• OSCE
• Competence/outcome-based assessment
• On-the job assessment
• Portfolio assessment
• Technology-based assessment
• Psychometrics
• Standard setting
• Feedback and assessment
• Self-assessment

• Assessment and the curriculum
• Assessment of professionalism/attitudes
• Assessment of teams/groups
• Assessment for the continuum/progression
• Assessment for selection for medicine and specialty training
• Assessment of educational environment
• International dimensions
• Teacher evaluation
• Curriculum evaluation
• Planning for assessment
• Support for assessment
• Faculty/staff development

• Research in assessment
• Case studies – undergraduate
• Case studies – postgraduate
• Case studies – CME/CPD
• CME - outcomes assessment
• CME - Compliance with ACCME assessment criteria
• CME - assessment of changes in competence/performance/patient outcomes
• CME - assessment of overall program effectiveness
• CME - assessment using objective data
• CME - effective assessment methods/tools