April 9 22, 2006 PRELIMINARY PRO GRAM (Fe bruary 24 draft) OPENING CEREMONY WEDNESDAY APRIL 9 FIRST DAY THURSDAY APRIL 20 8:00 8:45 REGISTRATION 8:45 9:00 OPENING Raymundo Jiménez, President of ADOFEM, 09:00-0:00 SYMPOSIUM No. Chairman: Raymundo Jiménez (President of ADOFEM, ) CHALLENG ES O F MEDICAL EDUCATIO N IN TH E AMERICAS Luis N. Ferreira, President of PAFAMS, Argentina Jordan Cohen, PAFAMS Representative of North America, USA Pablo Pulido, Executive Director of PAFAMS, Venezuela 0:00 0:5 Questions and Answers 0:5 :5 SYMPOSIUM No. 2 Chairman: Ángel Lee (RD/UCE) NATIO NAL AND REGIO NAL EXPERIENCES IN ACCREDITATIO N O F MEDICAL AND PROGRAMS Emilio Huyke, Puerto Rico * Diego Giraldo, ASCOFAME, Colombia * Alberto Oriol i Bosch, Director, Foundation, Spain * Marco Alvarez, Director, AFEME, Ecuador * Ulises Núñez, President, ASPEFAM, Perú * :5 :30 Questions and Answers :30-2:00 Coffee Break 2:00-2:25 CO NFERENCE No. S UCCESS FUL EXPERIENC ES IN MEDIC AL EDUCATION Margarita Barón Maldonado, President, Association of in Europe, AMEE, Spain *

2 April 9 22, 2006 2:25 2:50 CO NFERENCE No. 2 MINIMUM CO MPETENCIES FO R THE MEDICAL GRADUATES David Stern, Director, Institute for International, IIME, USA. * 2:50 3:00 Questions and Answers 3:00-4:30 Lunch 4:30 6:00 SYMPOSIUM No. 3 Chairman: Carlos Montero, National University Pedro Henríquez Ureña, UNPHU, CLINICAL RESEARCH AND MEDICAL EDUCATIO N Robert Rubin, Director, Center for Experimental Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Harvard-MIT, USA Honorio Silva, Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative, USA Guillermo Rodríguez, Costa Rica Melinda Cerni, Project Manager-Educational Initiatives, MIT, USA Igor Palacios, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, MIT-Harvard, USA * Eddy Pérez Then, Nacional University Pedro Henriquéz Ureña, NPHU/CENISMI, 6:00 6:5 Questions and Answers 6:5-6:30 Coffee Break 6:30 7:30 SYMPOSIUM No. 4 Chairman: William Duke, Vice President of PAFAMS, MEDICAL EDUCATIO N AND HEALTH PO LICIES IN THE DO MINICAN REPUBLIC José Selig, National Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, UASD, Raymundo Jiménez, President of ADOFEM,

3 April 9 22, 2006 SECOND DAY FRIDAY APRIL 2 8:30 8:50 SYMPOSIUM No. 5 Chairman: Jorge Asjana,, INTERNATIO NAL ACCREDITATIO N Role of WFME Hans Karle, President, World Federation of, WFME, Denmark * 8:50 9:0 Role of PAFAMS Luis Nicolas Ferreira, President of PAFAMS, Argentina José Félix Patiño, Director of PAFAMS, Colombia 9:0-9:30 Questions and answers 9:30 0:30 SYMPOSIUM No. 6 Chairman, Pablo A. Pulido M., Director of PAFAMS, Venezuela CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATIO N AND PRO FESSIO NAL DEVELO PMENT IN PRIMARY H EALTH CARE Dennis Wentz, Director, Project Globe, USA * Alberto Oriol i Bosch, President, Foundation, Spain * Rashid Bashshur, Director, Telemedicine Resource Center, University of Michigan, USA Alfred Loh, Chief Executive Officer, WONCA, Singapore * 0:30 0:45 Questions and Answers 0:45 - :5 Coffee Break :5 2:45 SYMPOSIUM No. 7 Chairman: D. Julio A. Castano, EXPERIENC ES AND STRATEGIES IN CO NTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATIO N ASOFAMECH, Chile ASPEFAM, Peru

4 April 9 22, 2006 ABEM, Brasil ACAFAM, Central America AFACIMERA, Argentina CANADA PROJECT GLOBE 2:45 3:00 Questions and Answers 3:00-4:30 Lunch 4:30 5:00 CONFERENCE No. 3 ADVANCES IN e-health Salah Mandil, Deputy Chairman, IeHA, Switzerland * 5:00 5:50 SYMPOSIUM No. 8 Chairman: José F. Mejía, Tecnological University of Santiago, UTESA, Dominican Republic e-health / e-learning, APPLICATIO NS O F INFO RMATIO N TECHNO LOGY IN MEDICAL EDUCATIO N Rafael Bello, cargo, UNPHU, Rashid Bashshur, Director, Telemedicine Resources Center, University of Michigan, USA Lucero Arboleda, cargo, INTEC, Juan Gabriel Cendales, Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia * José Gregorio Pachón, Director, PAFAMS, Colombia * 5:50 6:00 Questions and Answers 6:00-6:20 Coffee Break 6:20-6:40 CONFERENCE No. 4 Chairman: Pablo A. Pulido M., Director, PAFAMS, Venezuela UNIVERSITY, HEALTH AND PHARMACEUTIAL CO MPANIES SERVING HEALTH Honorio Silva, Director, Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative, USA 6:40. 6:50 Questions and Answers

5 April 9 22, 2006 6:50. 7:20 CO NFERENCE No. 5 Chairman: Rafael González, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, SEESCyT, TELEMEDICINE AND H EALTH, NEW ALTERNATIVES IN MEDICAL EDUCATIO N AND HEALTH CARE Rashid Bashshur, Director, Telemedicine Resources Center, University of Michigan, USA 7:20 7 30 Questions and Answers 8:30 9:00 CONFERENCE No. 6 THIRD DAY SATURDAY APRIL 22 Chairman: Rosa Céspedes, Director Health Department, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, SEESCyt, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN MEDICAL EDUCATION A ND HEALTH Ligia Amada Melo de Cardona, Minister, SEECyT, 9:00 9:20 CONFERENCE No. 7 Chairman: Raymundo Jiménez, President of ADOFEM, ASSESSMENT O F MINIMAL GLOBAL CO MPETENCES O F FACULTY STUDENTS AND GRADUATES O F THE UNIB E SCHOO L O F MEDICINE Julio A. Castaños, UNIBE, 9:20 9:30 Questions and Answers

6 April 9 22, 2006 9:30 9:50 CONFERENCE No. 8 Chairman: José Félix Patiño, Director of PAFAMS, Colombia INTERNATIO NAL MEDICAL EDUCATIO N, VISIO N AND EXP ERIENCES James Hallock, President, ECFMG/FAIMER, USA * 9:50 0:00 Questions and Answers 0:00 0:30 Coffee Break 0:30-0:50 CONFERENCIA No. 9 Chairman: Jorge Asjana, UASD, ROO TS AND NEW INITIATIVES IN MEDICAL EDUCATIO N IN THE DO MINICAN REPUBLIC Alejandro Pichardo, UASD, 0:50 - :30 SYMPOSIUM No. 9 Chairman: Rafael Fernández Lázala, PUCMM, BIO ETHICS AND MEDICAL EDUCATIO N Andrés Peralta, Miguel Suazo, INT EC, Ana Letícia Zavaleta de Amaya, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of El Salvador * Representative of PUCMM

7 April 9 22, 2006 :30-2:45 SYMPOSIUM No. 0 PANEL OF DEANS OF THE MEDICAL SHARING EXP ERIENCES BETWEEN DEANS ADOFEM: UASD, PUCMM, INTEC, UCE, UNPHU, UNIBE, UTESA, UCNE, UCAT ECI Deans of Latin America * 2:45 3:00 CO NCLUSIO NS / Francisco Hernández Award * To be confirmed