Ottawa 2024

It’s time to submit your abstracts and register to join us in Melbourne from 24 – 28 February 2024 for Ottaw2024!

Plans are well underway for Ottawa2024.au! In just about 8 months’ time we are looking forward to welcoming delegates to Melbourne for the 21st Ottawa Conference. This is one of the most exciting international events in the health professional education calendar and focusses entirely on the essential topic of assessment.

The Conference theme of “Assessment Near and Far” is linked with a number of concepts around effective assessment. These include the need for local and remote assessment, inclusivity in assessment activities, near- and distal-peer, and self- assessment, multisource assessment, and the impact of geographic and social remoteness on assessment practices. The objectives of the conference reflect those concepts. The 2024 event will:

• Initiate an inclusive mandate for the conference across all, inclusive of professions, gender, ethnic origin, Indigenous communities and LBGTQI+ identities.
• Enable more people and health professional groups to attend the Conference.
• Convene academic discussions on assessment in health professional education that are contemporary, relevant and challenging for the academic community.
• Discuss the nature of long-term and post- or peri-pandemic assessment.
• Initiate a reflection on the use and misuse of artificial intelligence in assessment practices.
• Define new and contribute to existing consensus statements on areas of assessment.
• Showcase research and best practice on assessment of clinical competence/capabilities.
• Stimulate innovation in assessments.
• Bring together expert and beginner, and artisans and apprentices in assessment for supportive networking.

It is time to focus on your abstracts with the pre-conference workshop submissions closing on June 29th 2023. If you have nominations for the Ian Hart award it is time to submit those too before July 14th 2023.

We will continue to refresh this website with news of new speakers, our academic partnership with EACH (the International Association for Communication in Healthcare) and other innovations and news. Please bookmark the page and follow us on social media for all the latest news and announcements.

Looking forward to welcoming you to Melbourne for Ottawa2024!

Mary Lawson

Chair of the Ottawa2024.au Organizing Committee
Melbourne. Australia 24th – 28th February 2024

Registration Available

Programme Available