The CHarME Project:

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The CHarME Project

• Challenges of HarmonizingMedical Education in
  Europe
• Coordinator Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
• October 2008 September 2010

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Project Presentation Intro

• The CHARME Project envisages developing joint
  strategies for the modernisation of the medical
  curriculum in order to make them more
  transparent, more comparable, more compatible
  and (most importantly!) more responsive to
  theneeds of the 21st labour market and society
  ingeneral.

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Project Presentation Context

• Shared concern about employability.
• Medical profession undergoes constant change.
• CHARME will investigate different methods of
  curriculum reform, identify appropriate practice,
  suggest measures for improvement and widely
  disseminate results and outcome.
• All this will materialise through a benchmarking
  exercise on medical education curriculum reform
  and employability!

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Project Presentation Outputs

• Questionnaire handbook (Benchmarking)
• Assessment Reports
• Assessment Workshop I (Antwerp)
• Best Practice Publication
• Assessment Workshop II (Stockholm)
• Valorisation Conference
• Series of Articles

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Project Presentation Impact

• Improved comparability, ...
• Improved mobility facilities,
• Capacity building,
• Creation of a Community for Curr. Reform,
• Valorisation,
• National Policies,
• Extrapolation,
• Stakeholders dialogue,
• Better prepared professionals!

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Project Partners (1)
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Project Partners (2)

• Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin (coordination)
• ESMU (European Center for Strategic Management of
  Universities), Brussels
• University of Antwerp
• Leiden University Medical Center
• Université Paris Descartes, Faculté de Médecine,
  Paris
• Università Cattolica di Sacro Cuore, Rome
• Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
• Semmelweis University, Budapest
• BVMD (German Medical Students Association)
• UEMS (European Union of Medical Specialists),
  Brussels
• Basel University, Faculty of Medicine

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Calendar of Activities (1)

• Pre-Kick-Off Meeting Berlin 9 Oct. 2008
• Kick-Off Meeting Berlin Oct./Nov. 2008
• Benchmarking Questionnaire Development Oct.
  08 - Jan. 09
• Steering Committee Meeting BXL Jan. 2009
• Questionnaire Completion Jan. - March 2009
• Drafting Assessment Reports April - June 2009
• Assessment Workshop I (Antwerp) July 2009
• Drafting WS I Report July - Sept. 2009

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Calendar of Activities (2)

• Drafting Best Practice Publication Sept.
  Dec.2009
• Assessment Workshop II April 2010
• Drafting WS II Report April - May 2010
• Validation Conference Berlin July 2010
• End Contract September 2010

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Role of each partner (1)

• Project Coordinator Berlin
• Benchmarking Exercise Coordinator ESMU
• Benchmarking Group ESMU, Berlin, Antwerp, Paris,
  Rome, Basel, BVMD UEMS
• Assessment Report ( Scores) ESMU
• Assessment Workshop I Antwerp/ESMU
• Assessment Workshop II Stockholm/ESMU
• Best Practice Publication Leiden

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Role of each partner (2)

• Final Conference Documentation Semmelweis
• Final Conference Berlin
• All university partners take part in
  benchmarking exercise
• All partners management, dissemination and
  valorisation (as steering committee members!)
• ESMU Quality Assurance

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Steering Committee

• Ulrike Arnold (Berlin)
• Jan Bolk (Leiden)
• Nadine Burquel (ESMU)
• Robert Langer (Budapest)
• Claire LeJeunne (Paris)
• Jonas Nordquist (Stockholm)
• Karl van Liempt (Antwerp)
• Marco Westkemper (BVMD)
• Federica Wolf (Rome)

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More Information

• www.charite.de/charme