KI hosted successful reception at the AMEE congress
The Karolinska Institutet hosted its highly anticipated annual reception, the KI@AMEE Mingle, during the AMEE Congress in Basel in August. Organized by Teaching and Learning at KI, the event served as a platform to celebrate collective achievements, honor this year's KIPRIME awardee, and foster meaningful connections among the global medical education community.
The reception buzzed with lively discussions, as KI colleagues and international partners, exchanged insights from the conference sessions, discussed their own research, and explored opportunities for new collaborations.
“The conference makes it a wonderful opportunity for Unit for Teaching and Learning (UoL) to be the connecting bridge between people from all around the world", says Teresa Sörö, area manager of UoL.
Doreen Herinek from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin agrees:
“I made new contacts and was able to discuss many exciting topics. I lost my inhibitions about simply approaching people from KI (often the hurdle is greater if you've never met before). I look forward to more contact ‘in the north’ and to visiting you one day to understand even better how exactly you implement interprofessional education and peer-assisted learning offers”.
KI students Robert Sandberg and Nicolas Liu did especially appreciate an interesting workshop, focusing on the importance of seeing failure as a part of the learning process:
“It explored how we define and react to failure, which I found very intriguing. At the beginning of the workshop, we were given small pieces of paper where we wrote down our definitions of failure. We also had the opportunity to write about what we consider our biggest mistake. It was a very personal experience because discussing these issues can make you feel vulnerable, and it's not something we always talk about openly. If you’re a doctor and you’ve never experienced failure, and then you fail for the first time, you can’t just give up — if you did, the healthcare system wouldn’t function properly. So, I think it’s vital that we reflect on this and understand that we can’t just give up when we fail.”
