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The programme will focus on three major topics:

  • Explore a desired future for health professional regulation;
  • Examine the regulatory and professional issues related to the international migration of health professionals;
  • Critically evaluate the relationship among health professional education, regulation and standards of practice.

 

These three main themes will be developed through plenary sessions and workshops. Workshops and plenary sessions will run simultaneously and therefore participants will have to choose to attend either a session or a workshop. Every workshop will be run two times, so you will have the opportunity to participate in all three.

 

Pre-registration is required for workshops and some plenary sessions and is done while completing registration.

In preparation of the conference, a global survey on Health Professions Regulation was launched and every participant (and interested person) is welcomed to complete it here.  

You will find below an overview of the programme.

This continuing education activity has been approved by the International Council of Nurses (ICN) for the award of International Continuing Nursing Education Credits (ICNECs).

VENUE:
CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE CONFÉRENCE DE GENÈVE (CICG)
DATES:
18 & 19 FEBRUARY 2010

CONTACT: registration@newbrooklyn.nl
 

Programme Overview

Thursday 18 February 2010

08:00 – 09:00

Registration and coffee available

09:00 – 09:15

Welcome

09:15 – 10:15

Keynote speaker presentation [Lecture]
Franz Knieps

10:15 – 10:45

Coffee break and Poster session

10:45 – 11:45

Setting the Scene and questionnaire feedback [Lecture]

  1. Anne Morrison, International Council of Nurses (ICN)
  2. Paul Rockey, American Medical Association (AMA)
  3. Luc Besançon, International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP)

11:45 – 12:00

Description of the format of the afternoon and Friday sessions

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch break and Poster session

13:00 – 15:00

Explore a desired future for health professional regulation [Lecture]

1) Current and future models of health professional regulation. Where are we now? And what do we desire for the future?

  1. Dr Ambrose McLoughlin, Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, Ireland
  2. Prof. Dr. Ketan D. Desai, President of the Medical Council of India, India

2) Finding balance in the social contract and public imperatives (e.g. safety and quality) that exists between the public and health professions

  1. Christine K. Cassel, American Board of Internal Medicine, USA
  2. Ms Jan Robinson, College of Physiotherapists of Ontario, Canada

The two following workshops will be run simultaneously:

Workshop 2 : Can regional and/or global standards of qualifications be harmonized? Language and cultural competence for health practitioners
Moderated by Margaret Grant, World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT), Australia and Donna Dorsey, Dorsey and Associates Consulting, USA

 

Workshop 3 : How can health professionals be effectively regulated from a team-based care perspective? How can core competencies and a team approach be integrated into the education programs of each health profession?
Moderated by Ian Bates International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), UK

 

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee break and Poster session

15:30 – 17:30

Examine the regulatory and professional issues related to the international migration of health professionals [Lecture]

1) Transferable, temporary and/or permanent health care, delivered as telemedicine or e-health, are evidence of the new phenomenon of virtual global mobility

  1. Donna Dorsey, Maryland Board of Nursing, USA
  2. Mukesh Haikerwal, Australian Medical Association, Australia
  3. Patricia Reynolds, Kings College London Dental Institute, UK

2) Is the assessment of equivalence of qualifications possible given the influence of different health systems, health priorities, roles and practices of the health profession?

  1. Ivana Silva, Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union (PGEU), Belgium
  2. Florent Aka Kroo, Ordre national des Médecins, Côte d'Ivoire

The two following workshops will be run simultaneously:

Workshop1: Professional behaviour, morals and ethics: developing better intrinsic commitments and effective systems to manage the increasing incidence of fraud.
Moderated by Christine K. Cassel, American Board of Internal Medicine, USA and Anne Morrison, International Council of Nurses (ICN), Switzerland

 

Workshop 3 : How can health professionals be effectively regulated from a team-based care perspective? How can core competencies and a team approach be integrated into the education programs of each health profession?
Moderated by Ian Bates, International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), UK

 

 

Friday 19 February 2010

09:00 – 11:00

Critically evaluate the relationship between health professional education, regulation and standards of practice [Lecture]

1) What differentiates and defines each profession: scopes of practice, core competencies, and shared competencies?

  1. Michael Maves, American Medical Association

2) Safe, quality care is an essential element common to all professional skills and professional roles. How should we collaborate in order to work more effectively in teams?

  1. Lesley Bainbridge, University of British Columbia, Canada
  2. Jón Snædal, World Medical Association, Iceland

Reactions for a Panel: How to collaborate?

The two following workshops will be run simultaneously:

Workshop1: Professional behaviour, morals and ethics: developing better intrinsic commitments and effective systems to manage the increasing incidence of fraud.
Moderated by Christine K. Cassel, American Board of Internal Medicine, USA and Anne Morrison, International Council of Nurses (ICN), Switzerland

 

Workshop 2 : Can regional and/or global standards of qualifications be harmonized? Language and cultural competence for health practitioners
Moderated by Margaret Grant, World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT), Australia and Donna Dorsey, Dorsey and Associates Consulting, USA

 

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee break and Poster session

11:30 – 13:00

Profession-Based Group Discussions (each specific for the following professions and run simultaneously: medical doctors, pharmacists, nurses, dentists, physiotherapists).

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch break and Poster session

14:00 – 15:15

Wrap up from workshops and professional group

15:15 – 15:30

Closing Remarks
 
Plenary Sessions
Professional Group
Break
Three Major Topics:
  Desired future for Regulation
Regulation and Migration
Education, regulation and practice
 

 

 

  
  Hosted by the WHPA in cooperation with the World Confederation for Physical Therapy: