Canadian Conference on Medical Education 2016

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to the 2016 edition of the Canadian Conference on Medical Education organized by the Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences de la Santé (FMSS) of the Université de Sherbrooke in Montreal. A conference of this size exceeds Sherbrooke’s capacity to welcome you all at once!

This year's theme "Accountability, from self to society" particularly speaks to the values held at the FMSS. Since its opening in 1966, the FMSS has been a pioneer in pedagogical developments, that have been closely aligned with advances in education and our society's needs. This is still what drives us today. The FMSS now offers more than 100 educational programs in domains such as medicine, nursing, rehabilitation, drug addiction, and different graduate studies. And it continues to grow in response to the needs of the people and communities where it is rooted.

Our concern to exercise exemplary social accountability was also expressed by the deployment of our programs throughout the Eastern Townships and central Quebec, as well as in the regions of Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, Montérégie and in the Francophone Atlantic. This networking approach enabled these regions to develop their capacities for training and retaining a strong medical and health sciences workforce for the benefit of these populations. Our campus in Moncton, New Brunswick, is a great development tool for the Acadian community.

Even if those are examples of being accountable from self to society, they’re only a part of the broader concept. We are proud to welcome you to this conference whose theme could not be more relevant during this time of diminishing resources, and growing populational needs. Medical schools can, and should be, part of the answer to these challenges.