AMSE 2011
“The staff of the medical school – challenges and opportunities”
June 16-18 2011, Ljubljana, Slovenia

About AMSE 2011

The people of a medical school are much more important than the buildings that house the school and the money that pays for it: without good staff and students, a school will fail. Therefore, the most important task for those who run a medical school is to recruit, motivate, reward and retain excellent staff.

The 2011 Conference of the Association of Medical Schools in Europe, to be held in Ljubljana on 16, 17 and 18 June, will discuss all aspects of staffing of the medical school. What are the problems in the recruitment and training of staff? How many of the staff in basic science subjects need to be medical doctors? How should the contracts of staff that have a hospital appointment as well as a medical school appointment be managed? The Conference will examine these and many other important questions.

A problem of vital importance is the disparity that exists in many countries between salaries that are paid to clinical staff of the medical school, and salaries that are available for their colleagues in the health care system. It is difficult to recruit a professor of medicine when he or she will be paid less – sometimes much less - than other physicians doing similar clinical work in the same teaching hospital.

The Conference promises to be of interest to everyone concerned with management of a medical school and its staff. We look forward to welcoming you in Ljubljana in 2011.