CENTRE FOR MEDICAL & HEALTH SCIENCES EDUCATION
Forthcoming Seminar:
‘Health promotion in undergraduate
medical education: Are we all singing
from the same song sheet?’
Speaker: Dr Ann Wylie, Dept of General Practice and Primary Care
King’s College, London
Date:
Tuesday 1st March, 2005, 12.30 – 13.45
Venue: Meeting Room 1, Building 64, Clayton Campus
About the seminar:
The call for health promotion to be an integral aspect of contemporary
undergraduate medical curricula was highlighted by the World Federation for Medical Education in the
1988 Edinburgh Declaration. However progress has been fragmented and I will argue that this is in
part related to the nature of the discipline and its emerging epistemological status. My talk will:
 Discuss the working definition of health promotion based on my research that could be applied in
medical education
 Consider some pragmatic issues that need addressing such as defining good practice and what
theoretical and research paradigms inform this discipline
 Consider if assessment driven medical curricula are able to develop the health promotion content
and have some consistency internationally
 Share plans for King’s revised curriculum and how health promotion will be integrated
About the speaker:
Ann Wylie’s has been based at King’s since 1996. She leads in a number
of areas: recruitment and support of teaching general practices, the community study for year 4, the
community based SSMs, the health promotion content of the curriculum. Ann’s PhD thesis (department
of education at King’s) explored the epistemology of health promotion and it’s relevance to medical
undergraduate education. As well as presenting at many international medical education conferences,
Ann wrote the Health Promotion chapter in “A Textbook of General Practice” second edition, edited by
Anne Stephenson (2004).
Ann has been a senior health promotion specialist for 20 years working initially in North Lancashire
with communities living in deprivation following large scale unemployment. She was also involved in
the first UK National ‘No Smoking’ Day. Prior to this change in career, Ann had been a microbiologist
working in the Liverpool Teaching Hospitals. Since moving to the South of England, Ann took on many
health promotion briefs while doing an M.A at Southampton and subsequently developed an open
learning award bearing course for those professionals wanting a health promotion qualification. She
continues to be the course director of this programme now based at the University of Reading. In
addition Ann is the Oxford region associate lecturer for The Open University level 3 Health promotion
course and is the external assessor for University of Brighton’s post graduate diploma for pharmacists,
for their health promotion module.
Who should attend: curriculum developers and medical educationalists, health promotion and
public health teachers, academics and practitioners, primary care professionals and other professionals
interested in this field.
To reserve a place at the seminar please contact:
Helen: 9905 8026 or helen.pattinson@med.monash.edu.au