The Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME)

ASME’s Mission:

“To meet the needs of teachers, trainers and learners in medical education by supporting research-informed, best practice across the continuum of medical education.”

ASME’s Strategic Aim:

“To allow members to share and further best practice in Medical Education”

ASME Goals:

• Promote high quality research into medical education
• Provide opportunities for developing medical educators
• Disseminate good evidence based educational practice
• Inform and advise Governmental and other organisations on medical education matters
• Develop relationships with other organisations and groupings in healthcare education.

ASME Values

• Education and learning are central to the delivery of high quality healthcare
• Education must be an important component in the strategies of Governmental and other healthcare organisations
• Good healthcare educators are central in planning, delivering and evaluating high quality healthcare
• Individual members of ASME should be supported and developed
• High quality research is necessary for the development of healthcare education
• Vision, innovation and leadership in healthcare education are to be fostered

ASME’s Objectives:

• To position ourselves as a UK-focused, internationally-facing trusted and dynamic organisation, working with our members, for our members
• To invest in targeted marketing to increase impact and influence of ASME, grow membership and increase income, to enable the development of further member services
• To invest in modernising and expanding our online presence via a fit-for-purpose website which can support online resources
• To focus on improved marketing of existing successful products, while developing sustainable additional products and resources