We are delighted to invite you to the inaugural CTF conference which will take place on Wednesday 18 June 2025, New Lister Building, GRI, Glasgow. The CTF conference is a regional event, hosted by the School of Medicine and held in partnership with our diaspora of Departments of Medical Education contributing to undergraduate education at Glasgow Medical School. This dynamic event serves as opportunity for our CTFs teams to showcase their innovation, improvement, scholarship and research throughout the academic year, foster future collaborations and as a timely celebration of the very significant contribution our CTFs have made to an incredibly successful academic year.

Jim Boyle (Chair) and on behalf of the organising committee: Mary-Beth Patterson, Kieran Dash, Chinenye Anike-Nweze, Christina Mamareli, Maram Zahraa, Veronika Flaskarova, Colin Perry and Malcolm Shepherd.

Provisional programme (TBC depending on CTF abstract submissions):

12:00-13:00: Registration and lunch

13:00-13:15: Chairs welcome and housekeeping

13:15-14:30: CTF delivered Short Communications (10 minutes, 5 mins discussion) or Lightning Talks (3 minutes, 2 minutes discussion).

14:30-15:00: Break

15:00-16:00: CTF delivered Short Communications (10 minutes, 5 mins discussion) or Lightning Talks (3 minutes, 2 minutes discussion).

16:00-16:20: Prize giving for best presentation, wrap-up and thank you from the Head of Undergraduate Medicine.

Please note that spaces are limited (!)

Call for abstracts (200-300 words) from Clinical Teaching Fellows - Please submit to veronika.flaskarova@glasgow.ac.uk and james.boyle@glasgow.ac.uk no later than Friday 30 May 2025.

Abstracts formats include innovation, improvement, scholarship and research. Can be traditional IMRAD (Lorelei Lingard’ Problem-Gap-Hook Heuristic is encouraged for introduction) or Really Good Stuff (ASME Medical Education Journal) framework – What problems were addressed? What was tried? What lessons were learned? Acceptance will be confirmed as soon as possible. If unsure if work suitable then please email james.boyle@glasgow.ac.uk.