IMEC 2026 Conference Gateway
IMEC 2026 Conference Gateway
About this Gateway
About IMEC 2026:
The International Medical Education Conference (IMEC) is a forum for forging and renewing friendships among educators of healthcare professions from around the world, providing a platform to exchange ideas and experiences and showcase innovations.
Health professions education is entering a transformative phase, in which educators are extending their roles to navigate evolving expectations, emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, and shifting priorities across education and healthcare. Educators face increasingly complex challenges, including balancing competing demands on their time, integrating novel pedagogical approaches, responding to diverse learner needs, and adapting to rapidly changing work environments.
This conference provides a platform for rigorous intellectual engagement and interdisciplinary dialogue, enabling participants to explore these challenges, examine current trends, and consider strategies to support critical reasoning, professional identity formation, and client-centred service. The discussions are especially timely given the increasing complexity of environmental and sustainability issues, alongside the imperative to incorporate values-based education.
Through collective reflection and knowledge exchange, the conference highlights and enhances the health professions educator’s role as a thoughtful, future-oriented leader in modern health professions education.
The subthemes of this conference are the following:
Gateway scope:
This Gateway showcases work presented at the IMEC 2026 conference, and includes non-peer reviewed content such as, e-poster presentations, oral presentations, pre-conference presentations slides and main conference slides. These formats provide early visibility of developing knowledge, and allow authors to publicly display important supporting work to their research in a shareable and citable format. Presenters are asked to ‘opt-in’ to this service so the content does not capture the entirety of what was presented but an overview is available via the abstract book.
Eligibility:
All presenters who have had an abstract accepted will have been offered the opportunity to publish their poster or slides with an administrative fees of RM290 in the Gateway and those who opted in will have been sent full instructions on how to submit their work. Posters and slides are not peer-reviewed but will be allocated a DOI and will be shareable and citeable.
The International Medical Education Conference (IMEC) is a forum for forging and renewing friendships among educators of healthcare professions from around the world, providing a platform to exchange ideas and experiences and showcase innovations.
Health professions education is entering a transformative phase, in which educators are extending their roles to navigate evolving expectations, emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, and shifting priorities across education and healthcare. Educators face increasingly complex challenges, including balancing competing demands on their time, integrating novel pedagogical approaches, responding to diverse learner needs, and adapting to rapidly changing work environments.
This conference provides a platform for rigorous intellectual engagement and interdisciplinary dialogue, enabling participants to explore these challenges, examine current trends, and consider strategies to support critical reasoning, professional identity formation, and client-centred service. The discussions are especially timely given the increasing complexity of environmental and sustainability issues, alongside the imperative to incorporate values-based education.
Through collective reflection and knowledge exchange, the conference highlights and enhances the health professions educator’s role as a thoughtful, future-oriented leader in modern health professions education.
The subthemes of this conference are the following:
- Innovations in Teaching and Learning
- Value-Based Education, Professionalism & Ethics
- Curriculum Design, Holistic Approach and Integrative Education
- Assessment and Evaluation
- Technology-enhanced Learning and Artificial Intelligence
- Governance and Leadership, and Sustainable Practice
- Faculty Development
Gateway scope:
This Gateway showcases work presented at the IMEC 2026 conference, and includes non-peer reviewed content such as, e-poster presentations, oral presentations, pre-conference presentations slides and main conference slides. These formats provide early visibility of developing knowledge, and allow authors to publicly display important supporting work to their research in a shareable and citable format. Presenters are asked to ‘opt-in’ to this service so the content does not capture the entirety of what was presented but an overview is available via the abstract book.
Eligibility:
All presenters who have had an abstract accepted will have been offered the opportunity to publish their poster or slides with an administrative fees of RM290 in the Gateway and those who opted in will have been sent full instructions on how to submit their work. Posters and slides are not peer-reviewed but will be allocated a DOI and will be shareable and citeable.
Gateway Areas
This section showcases slides from student-led presentations at the undergraduate student symposium, which was conducted during the conference. The presentations highlight research, innovations, and projects by undergraduate and postgraduate students in the field of health professions education. These sessions reflect emerging voices, fresh perspectives, and the next generation of healthcare educators and leaders.
Explore the presentation slides from shortlisted finalists for the IMU-RHIME Award. These projects highlight excellence, innovation, and real-world impact in medical and health professions education, as judged by a panel of experts
This section features slides from symposium sessions—curated discussions where multiple presenters share perspectives and insights on Educators Redefined: Design Learning, Drive Changes and Deliver Impact. These presentations are designed to stimulate deeper understanding and collaborative learning.
Browse slides from our hands-on, skill-building workshops conducted before the main conference. These sessions provided participants with practical tools, strategies, and frameworks that they could apply in their professional contexts.
This section includes slides from oral presentations delivered during the conference. Each presentation provides a snapshot of current work, findings, and innovations across a wide range of education-related topics, including student assessment, educational technology, teaching and learning, curriculum design, faculty development, governance and leadership, and professionalism and ethics.
View the digital posters presented at the conference. These e-posters showcase concise, visually engaging summaries of research and educational initiatives, allowing viewers to engage with the content at their own pace.
Gateway Advisors
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Nilesh Kumar Mitra
IMU University, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Chew Fei Sow
International Medical University, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Siti Suriani Abd Razak
IMU University, Malaysia
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