With ICRE less than a month away, I am thrilled to see how this year’s program has come together and look forward to the many important discussions that will take place at this year’s conference.
As many of you are aware, we decided to take a different approach with this year’s plenary debate, and will be featuring an important discussion on the lessons learned from the Hadiza Bawa-Garba case.
We’ve heard from many of you about the importance of presenting this debate from all different lenses, and in putting together this year’s session, our planning committee is working hard to ensure that this emotive and controversial topic will be handled with extreme sensitivity and with patients as the focus.
The selected panel of experts features a mix of backgrounds, and each panellist is extremely passionate about the issues raised. The discussion will focus on systemic failures in the MedEd workplace and how things can be changed, tying to this year’s conference theme around understanding the learning environment. We believe that approaching the lessons learned from this angle will make for a thought-provoking discussion directly relating to improving residency education.
I look forward to seeing you in Halifax.
Sincerely,
Jason R. Frank, MD, MA (Ed), FRCPC
Chair, ICRE 2018
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