Welcome to AMEE Guides Series 2


The AMEE Guides cover important topics in medical and healthcare professions education and provide information, practical advice and support. We hope that they will also stimulate your thinking and reflection on the topic. The Guides have been logically structured for ease of reading and contain useful take-home messages. Text boxes highlight key points and examples in practice. Each page in the guide provides a column for your own personal annotations, stimulated either by the text itself or the quotations. Sources of further information on the topic are provided in the reference list and bibliography. Guides are classified according to subject:


Teaching and Learning


Research in Medical Education Education Management


Curriculum Planning Assessment


Theories in Medical Education


The Guides are designed for use by individual teachers to inform their practice and can be used to support staff development programmes.


‘Living Guides’: An important feature of this new Guide series is the concept of supplements, which will provide a continuing source of information on the topic. Published supplements will be available for download.


If you would like to contribute a supplement based on your own experience, please contact the Guides Series Editor, Professor Trevor Gibbs (tjg.gibbs@gmail.com).


Supplements may comprise either a ‘Viewpoint’, when you communicate your views and comments on the Guide or the topic more generally, or a ‘Practical Application’, where you report on implementation of some aspect of the subject of the Guide in your own situation. Submissions for consideration for inclusion as a Guide supplement should be maximum 1,000 words.


Other Guides in the new series: A list of topics in this exciting new series are listed below and continued on the back inside cover.


30 Peer Assisted Learning: a planning and implementation framework Michael Ross, Helen Cameron (2007) ISBN: 978-1-903934-38-8


Primarily designed to assist curriculum developers, course organisers and educational researchers develop and implement their own PAL initiatives.


31 Workplace-based Assessment as an Educational Tool


John Norcini, Vanessa Burch (2008) ISBN: 978-1-903934-39-5


Several methods for assessing work- based activities are described, with preliminary evidence of their application, practicability, reliability and validity.


32 e-Learning in Medical Education Rachel Ellaway, Ken Masters (2008) ISBN: 978-1-903934-41-8


An increasingly important topic in medical education – a ‘must read’ introduction for the novice and a useful resource and update for the more experienced practitioner.


33 Faculty Development: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow


Michelle McLean, Francois Cilliers, Jacqueline M van Wyk (2010)


ISBN: 978-1-903934-42-5


Useful frameworks for designing, implementing and evaluating faculty development programmes.


34 Teaching in the clinical environment Subha Ramani, Sam Leinster (2008) ISBN: 978-1-903934-43-2


An examination of the many challenges for teachers in the clinical environment, application of relevant educational theories to the clinical context and practical teaching tips for clinical teachers.


35 Continuing Medical Education Nancy Davis, David Davis, Ralph Bloch (2010)


ISBN: 978-1-903934-44-9


Designed to provide a foundation for developing effective continuing medical education (CME) for practicing physicians.


36 Problem-Based Learning: where are we now?


David Taylor, Barbara Miflin (2010) ISBN: 978-1-903934-45-6


A look at the various interpretations and practices that claim the label PBL, and a critique of these against the original concept and practice.


37 Setting and maintaining standards in multiple choice examinations Raja C Bandaranayake (2010) ISBN: 978-1-903934-51-7


An examination of the more commonly used methods of standard setting together with their advantages and disadvantages and illustrations of the procedures used in each, with the help of an example.


38 Learning in Interprofessional Teams Marilyn Hammick, Lorna Olckers, Charles Campion-Smith (2010) ISBN: 978-1-903934-52-4


Clarification of what is meant by Inter-professional learning and an exploration of the concept of teams and team working.


39 Online eAssessment


Reg Dennick, Simon Wilkinson, Nigel Purcell (2010)


ISBN: 978-1-903934-53-1


An outline of the advantages of on- line eAssessment and an examination of the intellectual, technical, learning and cost issues that arise from its use.


40 Creating effective poster presentations George Hess, Kathryn Tosney, Leon Liegel (2009)


ISBN: 978-1-903934-48-7


Practical tips on preparing a poster – an important, but often badly executed communication tool.


41 The Place of Anatomy in Medical Education


Graham Louw, Norman Eizenberg, Stephen W Carmichael (2010)


ISBN: 978-1-903934-54-8


The teaching of anatomy in a traditional and in a problem-based curriculum from a practical and a theoretical perspective.


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