| 英文摘要 |
Medical education has received increasing attention in recent decades. A new wave of instructional strategies, e.g. flipped classrooms, has made their ways into real-life medical education. Other than undergraduate medical education, postgraduate residency training has also witnessed several innovative programs and curriculums. The paper aimed at investigating the studies presented at the annual conferences of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE), the world’s largest of its kind, in recent years so as to understand the status and development of family medicine specialty training involved in the international research fronts of medical education. The abstract books of AMEE annual conferences from 2012 to 2016 were downloaded from the official website of the association, and specific abstracts were identified based on the following keywords: “family medicine,” “primary care,” “community,” “general practitioner,” “health promotion,” “behavior change,” “travel medicine,” “preventive medicine,” “palliative medicine,” and “geriatric medicine.” Breakdown of participation was analyzed by stratifying the abstracts by region and country. 37% of the 233 abstracts associated with family medicine residency education in the past five years came from Western Europe and 30% from North America (30%). The country authoring the greatest number of abstracts was Canada (63 articles), followed by the United Kingdom (61 articles). Taiwan, however, presented only four abstracts, all in 2016. In light of the growing number of studies about family medicine residency training presented at international medical education conferences, the participation of Taiwan’s family medicine community appears to be particularly insufficient. Vigorous efforts need to be made to enhance Taiwan’s contribution to the research of medical education, especially in postgraduate specialty training. |
