The Health Professions Education section provides national academic leadership in the scholarship, research, and advancement of health professions education across medicine and allied health professions, aligned with international best practice.
Scope and Thematic Framework:
This section is structured around internationally recognised core HPE domains, informed by AMEE educational tracks, with cross-cutting contemporary lenses.
Core Scholarly Domains:
• Teaching and Learning Pedagogical approaches, curriculum design, learning environments, and educational theory across the continuum of training.
• Selection and Admissions Evidence-based approaches to fair, valid, and socially accountable selection into health professions.
• Assessment and Evaluation Programmatic assessment, feedback, judgement, professionalism, and competence frameworks.
• Faculty Development and Educational Leadership Educator capability, career pathways, mentoring, and scholarship development.
• Learner Support and Wellbeing Feedback literacy, coaching, professionalism, identity formation, and learning culture.
• Interprofessional and Team-Based Education Education that supports collaborative practice across professions and care settings. Cross-Cutting Contemporary Themes
• Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Addressing differential attainment, inclusive curriculum design, widening participation, and cultural competence.
• Sustainability and the UN Sustainable Development Goals Education for socially accountable, sustainable, and globally responsible healthcare systems (notably SDGs 3, 4, 10, 12, and 17).
• Technology, AI and Innovation in Education Ethical, evidence-informed use of digital tools and artificial intelligence in teaching, assessment, and feedback.
These themes will function as integrating lenses, embedded across all section activity rather than siloed topics.