Keynote Presentation
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Pim Teunissen, MD PhD
Pim Teunissen combines his work as the scientific director of the School of Health Professions Education (SHE), at the Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences of Maastricht University with working as a gynecologist specialized in maternal fetal medicine at Maastricht University Medical Center, in the Netherlands. He is a professor of workplace learning in healthcare and uses his clinical experience to inform his research and vice versa. In his research, he focuses on how education supports learning from work. He does this by connecting concepts and methodologies from different scientific disciplines to pertinent issues within healthcare education. His research activities span the continuum from medical students to new consultants in a variety of specialties and he has published more than 100 scientific articles and book chapters related to workplace learning in healthcare. He has supervised 15 PhD students to completion and is part of the (inter)national supervisory team of 13 active PhD students. He is currently leading a revision of the Dutch national postgraduate curriculum for Obstetrics and Gynecology aiming to align it with research on workplace learning and healthcare practice.
Workplace curriculum design; connecting theory to practice
Dr. Pim Teunissen, MD PhD
An important part of undergraduate medical education and the vast majority of postgraduate medical education is situated in practice. Medical students’ and residents’ learning is influenced by the curriculum they follow, the specific opportunities for learning and guidance provided at their varying workplace(s) and their individual goals and ambitions. How to design workplace learning is a topic that has many practical challenges and is studied from a multitude of perspectives. In this presentation, Pim Teunissen will discuss why we situate learning in the workplace and the importance of different ways of thinking about what we want learners to learn. Based on answers to these fundamental questions, an approach to integrate learning and working will be discussed, linking theory and practice. This presentation will help those attending to focus on what they want to achieve when organizing workplace learning and provide guidance on how to identify areas for improvement in their own workplace learning environments.