SAVE THE DATE 2025!
Welcome to Stockholm!
We are thrilled to host an in-person conference held at Nobel Forum at Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.
International conference May 7-9th, 2025
Productive Struggle:
Exploring the role of discomfort in learning, teaching and assessment
#MedEd on the Edge 2025
In health professions education today, there is heightened attention on improving the learner experience. This includes ensuring that there exists a learning environment in which everyone thrives and is free from intimidation and is psychologically safe. The notion is that psychological safety is a pre-requisite for learning. Is there a risk however, that in attempting to make students feel safe, that we can deny the turbulence, intellectual discomfort and stretch that can generate productive learning? The 2025 MedEd on the Edge conference focuses on the notion of productive struggle, addressing the dynamic, and the sometime perhaps dialectical relationship, between psychological safety and intellectual discomfort (or cognitive disequilibrium). Through five thematic tracks, we explore the role of discomfort in learning, teaching and assessment in the context of health professions education.
In participating in this conference, we will guarantee you an experience of ‘optimal discomfort’. Researchers and practitioners will challenge us to consider the productive dosage of extension, vulnerability, and risk taking from the perspective of learners, teachers, regulators and the community. Together we will explore the relationship between discomfort and learning, and how we can optimally challenge learners to be part of a health workforce fit for an ever-changing world.
Tracks:
The Clinical Learning Environment
Assessment
Gen AI
Migration and a global workforce
Professionalism
Host organisations
Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden
We are offering!
A diverse and inspiring program that features five domains designed to enchance health professions education. From early to advanced career including educators, leaders and researchers.
Who should attend?
Leaders who want to advance health professions education from all over the world, from any health profession, and at any stage of career, across the continuum. No formal leadership position is needed. If you want to influence HPE, you are welcome!
Description
Health professions education (HPE) is a critical societal enterprise that prepares health care providers to serve every country’s population. Despite incredible progress in the development of HPE around the world, there are a number of lingering challenges and sticking points that prevent HPE from advancing further in compassionate, effective, evidence-informed and context-adapted professional education. This new and exciting conference aims to gather HPE “influencers”–those seeking to impact HPE in a positive way–to debate contemporary controversies and promising new ideas.
The aim is to have voices and perspectives from multiple health professions and from every continent. Sessions will be dynamic, interactive, filled with debates, skill-building, consensus-forming, and diverse. All participants will be invited to submit an abstract on high-impact research or an emerging idea.
- Global
- Cutting Edge
- Emerging Ideas
- Debates
- Consensus Statements
- High-Impact
- Outstanding speakers
- Edge Groups
- Co-production
- Community of practice
- Young leaders
- Established influencers
- Art-inspired thinking
Domains
- Does Health Professions Education Make a Difference to the Health of the Public?
- Can We Ever Achieve Equity in Health Professions Education?
- Has Assessment Ever Worked?
- Competence, Incompetence and Continuing Professional Development
- What is HPE Research For?
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