DEMEC 2025 | Conference themes

Submission instructions and information to include AI, academic training and research focused on any of the themes below are welcomed for abstracts and parallels.

Patient needs, service requirements and training – are they all the same?

  • Balancing the needs of the healthcare service and individual career aspirations
  • Assessment
  • Curriculum content
  • Remote, rural and coastal service delivery
  • Role of regulation
  • Co-development of service and workforce to consider training needs

How employment practices can enhance well-being, retention and training

  • Recruitment and retention
  • Digital improvement for employment in education and training eg rotas, study leave
  • Professional support

Supporting every doctor and dentist to be the best they can be

  • EDI – accommodating the needs of learners
  • Widening Participation – fostering potential across the continuum
  • Impact of representative workforce on improving patient outcomes

How we encourage career development in all grades of doctor and dentist

  • Meeting patient needs
  • SAS and locally employed doctors

Medical education leadership development

  • Career development in educational delivery within both the health services and academic institutions
  • Knowledge and skills required by educators
  • Knowledge and skills required by those that manage educators
  • Potential role of support and regulation of NHS Managers