Hello to all ka!
Earlier this week, I had a great opportunity to attend WFME World Conference 2025 to feel excited, curious and proud.
WFME is the World Federation of Medical Education which enhances the quality of medical education worldwide by promoting high scientific and ethical standards, developing global standards, recognizing accreditation agencies, and maintaining the World Directory of Medical Schools.
In Thailand, IMEAc -- the Institute for Medical Education Accreditation -- has been accredited since 2018. This international recognition allows our medical graduates to pursue their studies anywhere in the world, including the US.
Why did I feel excited?
IMEAc co-hosted this world conference with WFME with over 900 participants from worldwide. I'm glad that 1/3 was Thai ka.
Academically, it benefitted medical ajarns and healthcare professionals to learn from other countries/regions and expand their perspectives as well as to network for collaboration. Importantly, Thai medical schools could use it as a platform to share our ways of managing our medical education.
Economically, it definitely added positively to our economy from the hotels to tourist attractions, and other small businesses.
Why did I feel curious?
Having listened to speakers on the issues relating voices from a patient and from students, I'm more eager to know how their voices and actions could be taken up much further ka.
For a patient's voice, it was a young Thai scientist who shared her personal experience of being diagnosed during her doctoral studies with a kidney disease that would need to go through dialysis. Her story struck my heart how important it is for patients to have their rights, knowledge, and access to medical doctors/treatment, not only to speed up the overall processes, but also to let patients learn more how to care for themselves and have an involvement to design their desired path.
This conference also recruited quite a number of student doctors as volunteers who did everything from giving presentations to packing conference bags. WFME gives a high priority to students to play an active role in medical education processes.
I talked with several student doctors and was very impressed by their spirit of volunteerism plus their learning from each conference they helped. It definitely has expanded their perspectives and cross-cultural understanding.....and gained more understanding about life and purposes.
Why did I feel proud?
When listening to what other countries think and do, I couldn't help but compare it with our current practices and future plans of our medical schools.It's hard to say out loud to others but I notice how far the Thai medical education has progressed to date....we stand on the top of the list without any doubt ka.
I had a chance to help give a presentation on, ‘Bridging National and International Standards through Leadership’ to understand better about our Medical Education history to feel even more appreciative. The reflection shed light on how our leadership has shaped the community and so I wish we could have had more sessions to share our insight and strategies ka.
One more email to share na ka.
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