Annual Meetings - Lund 2005
The Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lund in Sweden hosted the sixth annual meeting of the U21 Health Sciences group. The meeting (29 - 30 September 2005) was attended by 90 delegates from 15 member universities and included key representatives from medicine; dentistry; nursing; physiotherapy; occupational therapy; audiology; speech science/speech pathology; and pharmacy.
The following U21 universities were represented:
- The University of Auckland
- The University of Birmingham
- The University of British Columbia
- Fudan University
- The University of Glasgow
- The University of Hong Kong
- The University of Korea
- Lund University
- McGill University
- The University of Melbourne
- The University of New South Wales
- The University of Nottingham
- The University of Queensland
- National University of Singapore
- The University of Virginia
View the participant list [81.5 kB]
Photo: U21 Health Sciences' Delegates
Workshop on global e-health
A very successful two-day workshop on global e-health was conducted prior to the group's annual meeting and the U21 Health Sciences membership endorsed a range of initiatives arising from this workshop. A major development was the proposed formation of strategic e-health partnerships within and beyond the U21 Health Sciences network. Service delivery, and e-health policy development and research, including the key area of professional portability, were identified as the major areas for action. As a first step, the U21 Health Sciences group is committed to establishing a network of individuals with expertise and an interest in e-health as central contacts within each member university.
View the U21 e-health workshop summary [40.7kB]
The Core Meeting Programme – selected presentations, reports and notes
The future of academic health care, university / health care interactions, clinical education, global e-health, external reviews, and managing intellectual property and technology transfer were the major themes at the annual meeting. The programme also included reports on current initiatives including the proposed U21 Certificate in Health Informatics, as well as discussion on international exchange and interdisciplinary research.
View the core meeting agenda [PDF 38.9 kB]
CORE MEETING PROGRAMME – DAY 1
The future of academic (medicine) health care (Gavin Stuart and Stefan Lindgren)
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- The Future of Academic (Medicine) Health Care [51 kB]
- Academic Health Care: Opportunities and threats [239 kB]
Training the next generation of health scientists (Collette Clifford, Patrick McNeil, Heather Baker)
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- Training the next generation of health scientist [116 kB]
- Do We Need a New Health Professional [428 kB]
- The health professional of the future [260 kB]
University health care interactions (Michael Ward and John Wong)
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- University - Health Care Interactions [24.6 kB]
- University - Healthcare Interactions: Background, Key concerns and New learning needs [1.96 MB]
Clinical education (John Gilbert and Gillian Webb)
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Interdisciplinary workshop and panel discussion
This session, including break-out group discussion, provided delegates with an opportunity to further explore the key themes and issues raised on Day 1. Terence Stephenson chaired a panel of presenters to facilitate and further the discussion.
Topics included the future of clinical academics; the 'new' health professional(s); teaching team skills and engaging the health care system; and practice readiness and practice boundaries. Following the discussion a range of initiatives were proposed, including the establishment of a working group to articulate core values relating to clinical academics; an exploration of the composition and role of the ‘premier' health care team with input from the university, health care and government sectors; and defining the language and terminology pertaining to practice boundaries and practice readiness across the U21 network.
CORE MEETING PROGRAMME – DAY 2
Global e-health (Kendall Ho)
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- Global e-Health in Motion: U21 e-health Steering Committee Report [286 kB]
- Global e-Health in Motion: U21 e-health Steering Committee Report: Resolution [78.1 kB]
Report – Business case for proposed U21 Certificate in Health Informatics (Peter Harris and Tony Norris)
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Benchmarking – external review – the UK 's Research Assessment Exercise (Terence Stephenson)
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Stimulating international exchange within the U21 network (Niv Patil, Ricky Man, Peter Smith and Shiu-Kum Lam)
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Stimulating interdisciplinary research (James Angus, Robert Sindelar, Helen Burt, Joan McMeeken)
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- Stimulating interdisciplinary research [87.4 kB]
- Stimulating Interdisciplinary Research in Health Sciences [891 kB]
- Interprofessional Research Collaboration: A perspective from physiotherapy [235 kB]
U21 Health Sciences Executive Committee meeting
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Interdisciplinary Workshops
Interdisciplinary workshops focused on global-ehealth, benchmarking and external reviews, as well as stimulating international exchange within the U21 framework.
View selected presentations on external reviews (Jan Nilsson and Peter Smith):
CORE MEETING PROGRAMME – DAY 3
Managing intellectual property and technology transfer (Sten Trolle (Chair), P Belfrage, W Doe, P Harris for E Reynolds, S Pervaiz and A Garson)
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- Commercializing Public Research [591 kB]
- Translational Medicine [1.17 MB]
- Managing Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer [65.4 kB]
- Managing IP and Technology Transfer in Asia [1.65 MB]
- CELLS to SOCIETY: SCIENCE to PRODUCTS [32.5 kB]
The discipline meetings – selected presentations, reports and notes
Two afternoons were allocated for the disciplinary meetings. Meeting programmes included both discipline specific and interdisciplinary issues, as well as follow up on a range of matters including previously identified projects, proposed initiatives, and key meeting themes. The U21 Pharmacy group discussed a range of matters by teleconference.
Medicine
The issue of university / health care interactions was a major focus for the U21 medicine group, and discussion continued on the future of academic medicine and the international recruitment of overseas-trained academics and clinicians The programme also included a presentation on external quality assessment of education. Reports included updates and proposals relating to telehealth; the U21 certificate in health informatics; sharing of resources and DLOCat; as well as stimulating international exchange.
View U21 Medicine meeting agenda [PDF 48.5 kB]
View selected presentations:
- University - Healthcare Interactions: International anxieties, A possible research framework and Opportunities for U21 [1.46 MB]
- External Quality: Assessment of Education [671 kB]
- U21 Medical Student Electives in E-Health [1.17 MB]
- Learning Resource Catalogue (DLOCat) [58.6 kB]
The U21 medicine group agreed to continue focusing on the area of university / health care interactions, highlighting the need for ongoing work on the organizational aspects of health care. It was noted that the ICRAM initiative provided an invaluable forum for academic health care and that members of U21 medicine would continue to be involved and contribute to the discussion and scenarios as a means of progressing this issue. Ongoing projects include the telehealth initiative and the learning resources catalogue. The group also agreed to ongoing work on a business plan for the proposed U21 certificate in Health Informatics.
Dentistry
Major topics for the U21 dentistry meeting included electronic patient records and problem-based learning. The group also focused on university / health care interactions and there was a brief report on benchmarking activities.
View U21 Dentistry meeting agenda [PDF 42.2 kB]
View the meeting report [1.11 MB]
Nursing
The U21 nursing group continued discussion on benchmarking research and clinical education, and staff and student exchange. The meeting included presentations on nursing telehealth across the U21 network, and nursing informatics.
View U21 Nursing meeting agenda [PDF 41.7 kB]
View the U21 nurses' discussion on exchange [62.7 kB]
View the meeting report [18.5 kB]
Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
The proposed position paper on practice education was a major focus for the U21 health and rehabilitation sciences group. Other topics included a review of the benchmarking exercise and how best to establish an interprofessional and interdisciplinary research agenda.
View U21 Health and Rehabilitation Sciences meeting agenda [PDF 46.2 kB]
View the meeting report [98.8 kB]
U21 Pharmacy Group Teleconference
View the notes of the teleconference [35.3 kB]
Summary of Meeting Outcomes
The group agreed that the e-health steering committee would work towards substantive and ongoing collaboration with the World Health Organization's e-Health Unit by jointly establishing a committee under WHO's Global Observatory for e-Health (GOe), to ascertain opportunities for collaboration, with findings and outcomes to be reported at the next U21 Health Sciences meeting in Nottingham in 2006. It was also agreed that work would commence to establish a partnership with the United Kingdom 's Swinfen Charitable Trust, a leader in establishing tele-medicine links to support health care in developing countries. The U21 Health Sciences group will propose a collaboration with the Swinfen Trust for provision of telehealth to underserved communities. This proposed collaboration will involve students, consultant staff, and existing telehealth infrastructure within the U21 network.
Delegates confirmed an ongoing commitment to benchmarking and stimulating international exchange, and university / health care interactions and health professional education will be major themes for the group's meeting in Nottingham in 2006. The U21 nurses propose to conduct a three-day doctoral programme to coincide with the Nottingham meeting and U21 Dentistry will continue to focus on transcultural communication education, electronic patient records, and problem-based learning at a pre-meeting workshop. Work will continue on the U21 Health and Rehabilitation Sciences group's position paper and proposed publication on clinical education. Major themes for the pharmacy group in 2006 include accreditation, interprofessional education, and research.
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