Reforming Medical Education

CHARME - CHALLENGES OF HARMONISING MEDICAL EDUCATION IN EUROPEllp

Consortium: Eleven Partners

Leader: Charité, Medical Faculty Berlin
The “Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin” is the institution of the unified medical schools and hospitals of the Free University and the Humboldt University in Berlin. The fusion in 2003 created the largest school of medicine and university hospital system in Europe.

Project partners:
  • European Centre for Strategic Management of Universities (ESMU)
  • University of Antwerp
  • Leiden University Medical Center
  • UFR Médicale Paris Descartes
  • Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Rome
  • Karolinska Institutet – Stockholm
  • Semmelweis University Budapest
  • BVMD (German Medical Students)
  • UEMS (Professional association)
  • Basel University Medical Faculty
Role of ESMU:
  • Benchmarking Exercise Coordinator
  • Drafting of the benchmarking questionnaire
  • Assessment Reports & Assessment workshops
  • Quality Assurance
Aim

The project addresses a major aspect of the modernisation agenda for medical faculties across Europe: study programmes and employability. The overall aim is to find out how European universities can best adapt their curricula in order for future doctors to be better prepared for the challenges of the 21th century

Activities (2008-2010)
  • Benchmarking exercise among a small group of medical faculties from across Europe (project partners)
    • Production and circulation of a detailed questionnaire
    • Compilation of detailed assessment reports and scores
  • Two Workshops
    • The first one, shortly after the publication of the assessment reports
    • The second one, one year after the first exercise
  • Dissemination of the results and outcomes of the exercise
    • Publication on identified best practices
    • A series of articles in targeted medical education and professional publications
    • Final conference
Outputs
  • Questionnaire and handbook (benchmarking)
  • Assessment Reports and Scores (confidential to the group of partners)
  • Two Assessment Workshop and corresponding documentation
  • Dissemination Conference
  • Publication on best practices
  • Series of articles in medical Education and Professional Publication

Go to the CHARME website