Registration is now open > https://inhwe.network/registration-online-2025/

Please note: the 3rd International Online Conference of Health Workforce Education is free to attend, with a "Pay What You Want" model, which we hope will open the event up to our diverse and wide ranging membership. The PWYW model helps us cover running costs but is in no way to be understood as an obligation for participants, who are more than welcome to attend the event entirely free of charge.

Registration deadline: online registration closes on Monday 6th January 2025. Late registrants can contact us at matteo.vezzosi@inhwe.org but we cannot guarantee requests made less than 24h prior to the event.

The INHWE Network is a free membership community that brings together healthcare educators and researchers from all disciplines with an aim to improve the education and training provided to health workforce professionals across the globe. Non-members are warmly invited to sign up on https://inhwe.network/ today and take advantage of our free services, discounts, and limited time offers for Members.

Conference Programme > https://inhwe.org/programme-online-2025

Abstract Book > https://inhwe.org/sites/default/files/documents/AB_Online_2025.pdf

Conference Theme: Future of Healthcare Education

During a time of great change for global healthcare systems the future education of healthcare professionals is key to ensuring long term sustainability for populations. International institutions have called for policies that allow for the education of flexible health professionals capable of dealing with the ever-changing healthcare environment.  A multi-stakeholder and inter-professional approach to tackling this issue is paramount to ensuring this takes place. Educators must ensure that they employ the most effective teaching methods, researchers must identify the right skill combinations for future professionals, and policy makers must make effective changes to national and international planning and legislation.

The health workforce faces a number of complex challenges at local, national and global levels. At the global level, a key challenge is the increasing number of mobile healthcare workers who are challenging country-based health workforce education and planning. At a national scale, research projects have identified that education and training must adapt to the skill requirements needed to keep the health workforce compatible with policy plans. Therefore, at a local level, educators must assess their curricula, the approaches they take to teaching and the assessment methods that they implement. The health workforce education community is already attempting to address some of these challenges, for example by moving towards inter-professional teaching, competency based training programmes, and clinical reasoning education techniques, but there is still much work to be done.

Presentation Protocol: please stick to the following guidelines in the preparation of your presentation.

Presentation Platform: Zoom

Zoom is a platform designed to offer complete unified communications maintaining high-quality standards. The web conferencing platform allows to seamlessly join meetings with either zoom software/app or zoom application in a web browser.

All presentations must be in English and will be presented live in real time. Presenters have a fixed time for giving their presentation. For the presentation of Abstracts and/or Short Papers the total time slot will be 10 minutes.

Sessions are designed in such a way as to possibly exceed the time limit, e.g. by taking advantage of post-session breaks. The aim is to ensure that all presenters have adequate time for their contribution and offer sufficient discussion space to answer any questions from the virtual audience.

Presentation requirements

• Bright and quiet space
• Stable internet connection
• Laptop/PC with microphone

Recommended equipment for presenting:

• Zoom application installed on your laptop or PC
• The use of headsets (microphone + earphones)
• The use of a webcam is not mandatory and you shouldn't feel pressure to use one if it makes you uncomfortable.

To ensure the success of each session, technical support will be provided by the INHWE team. Before the Online Conference starts, an invitation will be sent via e-mail to provide the following:

• Hyperlink to join the Zoom
• Password, if any

Presentation format

When presenting your paper, you will be asked to share your screen. This means that there are no fixed rules on the presentation format. Having said that, the recommended format for presentations is either PowerPoint (type .pptx), Google Slides, or PDF. The recommended page set-up is landscape orientation, standard fonts.

The use of pre-recorded video content (e.g. videos uploaded to a PowerPoint) is possible, but not recommended due to the risk of incompatibility with your Laptop/PC setting. It sometimes happens that the video plays correctly on your screen but the audience cannot hear the sound of it. To avoid that, you could use the chat box for sharing a hyperlink to your video content (e.g. on YouTube), so that the attendees can watch the video on their screens during the presentation or at a later date.

Chairs of Session

We try to involve our long-time members during our events as they have a good understanding of the type of events we like to run. Many of you are attending the online conference and presenting one or more papers each. The role of Chair of Session is still vacant for some of the sessions and we would like to ask if you wish to volunteer for the role? We would certainly feel comfortable knowing that the sessions are chaired by someone closely linked to the Network.

To volunteer for the role of Session Chair, please contact us at matteo.vezzosi@inhwe.org

Networking and Dissemination Opportunities

As we have outlined on our registration platform, recordings of your presentations will be made available on the INHWE YouTube channel which you can access here: INHWE Channel.

On Day 3 (Friday 10th January 2025) members of the INHWE are invited to simply drop in and have a chat with our Director to discuss their research interests, find peers across the globe, search for EU-funded project partners, or to register an expression of interest in hosting one of the next INHWE International Congresses of Health Education and Research.

The INHWE Online Conference of Health Education and Research encourages participants to discuss the diverse possibilities and challenges of "Future Education of Healthcare Professionals" with international colleagues. The online event would welcome presentations adopting local, national and/or international perspectives on: 

• Teaching/Training: pedagogy, assessment methods, curricula, innovation, technology 
• Research: results from large-scale surveys, research projects, studies using innovative methods 
• Policy: new policy initiatives, future policy directions being pursued by governments and private/non-governmental organisations. 

Conference Sub-Themes

• One Health
• Communication, Person-Centred Approach, Holistic Care
• Digital Skills and Technology in Healthcare and Education
• Health Workforce Policy & Research
• Intercultural Education
• Intergenerational Training
• Interprofessional Education
• Leadership & Health Management
• Planning and Organisation
• Problem Solving
• Research in the Education and Training of Health Professionals
• Team-based Learning (TBL)

The deadline for abstract submission passed on Monday 2nd December 2024. Further submissions will not be accepted. You, however, in extraordinary cases can ask for a late submission by contacting us at: matteo.vezzosi@inhwe.org