Forum Session: Five key components for a successful distributed medical education program

The challenge of distributed medical education initiatives is to turn political visions into growing education realities delivering equivalency of education at all points in the program. Here, session leaders illustrate project management and organizational change strategies to make that happen. They set out details on five key program features of the University of British Columbia's successful expansion and distribution from 128 students at one site to 298 students at four sites: 1) pedagogical approaches, 2) multi-institution funding streams, 3) organizational change strategies, 4) collaboration models and tools, and 5) required technologies and systems. Attend this session to get the planning benchmarks for successful distributed education implementation projects.

This session is approved for AIA Continuing Education credit.

• Katya Wilson, MBA, PMP , Principal - AMBiT Consulting, Inc.
  
• Dan Zollmann, P. Eng, PMP , Principal - AMBiT Consulting, Inc.
  
• Joanna Bates, MD , Senior Associate Dean, Faculty of Medicine - University of British Columbia