1. Medical school management – performance indicators

 
The workshop will be based around experience in developing and testing key performance indicators for use by governing bodies of universities in the UK, to monitor institutional performance. We shall consider these indicators and:

• examine the extent to which performance indicators for the medical school need to match performance indicators for the university as a whole. 
• explore what is required by those organisations outside the university which also have an interest in the performance of the medical school: for example the health-care system, specialist accreditation agencies, and so on. 
• extrapolate from the UK experience on how to avoid the number of performance indicators increasing until they become meaningless?  In short - how to identify the very few performance indicators that really are essential?

 This will be primarily an interactive workshop whereby participants can learn from each other, share experiences and solve problems together.  A point of particular interest will be to explore ways in which key performance indicators may differ from country to country within Europe.

 The workshop will be led by Alison Johns, Head of Leadership, Governance and Management, of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, David Gordon, President of AMSE and Terence Stephenson, until recently Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Nottingham.   This workshop is part of the series of workshops on leadership of the medical school run by AMSE since 2005.

2. Effective mentoring relationships: Partner's perspective

 The mentoring relationship is defined today as a dynamic, reciprocal relationship in a work environment between an advanced career incumbent (mentor) and a beginner (mentee) aimed      at promoting the career development of both. Therefore, mentoring as a developmental process based on exchanging experiences, ideas and feedback between both partners is particularly important at postgraduate level of education. It supports staff in preparing for or adjusting to new roles, enhances opportunities to develop skills and knowledge and enables continuing medical professional and scientific development and personal growth. However, not all medical trainees recognise the value of this mentoring relationship, not always realise their own capacities for being an effective mentor and not well understand this relationship from the mentee's perspective. 

The main aim of the workshop is to review and support mentoring skills and strategies for an effective mentorship at medical school.

Specific objectives of the workshop:

1. to determine personal attribute to be a „good“ mentor,
2. to define personal style of mentoring
3. to examine factors influencing partnership in mentoring, including learning environment   and both side expectations
4. to review and discuss measures of success and failure of mentoring relationship,
5. to develop skills in „difficult situations“ management.

 
Workshop is open for mentors and mentees with or without personal experiences in mentoring. Participants will be engaged in interactive discussions, brainstorming and exercises.