Ottawa 2010 - Ottawa 2010 Assessment of Competence in Medicine and the Healthcare Professions

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 2010 Ottawa Conference on the Assessment of Competence in Medicine and the Healthcare Professions. This will celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Ottawa Conference and we are proud and honored to host this milestone event from May 15-20, 2010 in Miami, Florida, USA. To commemorate this special conference, participants will review progress made over the past 25 years, highlight current good practice and identify trends and developments over the next 25 years.

We invite everyone who has a stake in the assessment of healthcare providers to attend. We believe that you will be the most important part of the meeting and that your active participation will be essential for the meeting to fulfill its mission. The meeting will reflect an interprofessional and international perspective across all phases of training and practice.

The content and organization of the 2010 meeting will be different from past meetings. Firstly, the programme committee expanded the number of pre-conference workshops and courses to provide a greater range and depth of topics that fulfill individual needs and interests. Secondly we reorganized the meeting to make it easier for you to choose what you want to attend and where to find it. There are several special tracks and broad themes that we have scheduled throughout the various plenary and symposia presentations, workshops, and abstracts sessions so that you have the option to focus on a particular area of interest or sample a wide range of topics. Thirdly, a product of the meeting will be the generation of a consensus statement and recommendations relating to assessment of competence in the healthcare professions. Six working groups, each addressing an important theme in assessment, are currently drafting reports that will be presented during the meeting. You will have an opportunity to comment on and influence the further development of these statements. We see this as an exciting and important initiative.

Ottawa 2010 will take place in Miami, a dynamic, cosmopolitan, sub-tropical paradise. Miami’s picturesque beaches, warm climate, numerous outdoor activities, wide diversity of cultures and easy accessibility nationally and internationally make it a perfect setting for the 25th Silver Anniversary.

We do hope you will join us and participate in Ottawa 2010 in Miami. The local organizing committee has drawn upon the international backgrounds and diversity of expertise of the planning committee to put together a meeting that is broad in scope, rich in substance, ambitious in reach and grounded in relevance. Please join us in Miami!

S. Barry Issenberg, Ronald Harden and Ian Hart
On behalf of the Ottawa Organising Committee