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WELCOME TO AMEE 2014, MILAN
Letter from AMEE Executive Committee and Secretariat
Dear Participant
Welcome to Milan. We typically spend two years planning a conference and carefully read your feedback from
the previous year’s conference, and now that AMEE 2014 is here we feel both excited and apprehensive. Excited
because we think we have a wonderful and varied programme which hopefully has something for everyone, no
matter which part of the world they come from and what are their particular interests. Apprehensive because
we realise that you too have spent a lot of time and effort in conducting research and preparing your AMEE
presentations, and you have also used up precious funds for your visit to Milan, so we want you to feel that AMEE
2014 more than lives up to your expectations. The Executive Committee and AMEE Staff can be identified by their
badges, so please do stop us and let us know what you like about AMEE 2014 and if we could do anything better.
Better still, drop by the AMEE exhibition stand where you can introduce yourself to us and we can see the face
behind the email address!
Year after year, the complexity of the programme is a major challenge, and we are constantly trying to think of
ways to make it easier to navigate. This programme has everything you need to know, and the abstract book
is available on the website www.amee.org. The App introduced last year was a resounding success, and is also
available for AMEE 2014. You can build your own personal schedule and even set reminders so you don’t miss an
important session, as well as linking to the abstracts. Accessing the App on either a smartphone or tablet is really
easy and instructions are given on the inside front cover of this programme. We also have a large Social Media
team and there’s always someone available on the Helpdesk in the registration area.
Sessions in both the Gold Plenary and Auditorium will be streamed through AMEE Live! for participants watching
back at home. These sessions will also be recorded so if you miss one or if you want to catch one of the interviews
with participants, speakers and award winners you can access them later on www.ameelive.org and by entering
the username amee and the password milan2014.
Due to data protection restrictions we are not producing a delegate list this year. Please don’t forget that as an
AMEE member you can register on MedEdWorld and upload your profile to the Community. You can then network
with others with similar interests and send messages within the Community. All areas of MedEdWorld are free
to AMEE members, and can be accessed with your AMEE username and password. We have set up forums in
MedEdWorld for each day of the Conference and encourage you to upload your presentation into the respective
forum. There are also themed forums and themed lunch tables (see page 11) so if you’re interested in one of these
topics, why not join like-minded colleagues for lunch, or communicate with them via the forums There will also
be a supply of coloured dots on the notice board which you can select and stick on your name badge to indicate
you interest in one of the selected themes.
As always, our thanks go to many people who have worked so hard over the preceding months. We are grateful to
Fabrizio Consorti, President of SIPeM, and Licia Montagna, our Italian collaborators for AMEE 2014.
We really hope you enjoy the Conference.
NOTE: Photographers will be taking formal and more casual photographs throughout the Conference
which may be uploaded to MedEdWorld, Flickr and Instagram.
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