Following the production of the Revised Core Content of Learning, the IME Education Working Group set up a sub-group to consider best practice in the assessment of Medical Ethics and Law.

The remit of the Group is to ask:

• What are the aims of assessing ethics and law?
• What assessment tools for ethics and law are currently used in undergraduate medical education in the UK (and abroad)?
• What assessment tools may best fit the Revised Core Content of Learning?
• What role, if any, should the IME adopt in further developing a resource of assessment tools?

Its members are Angela Fenwick (Chair), Rhona Knight, Georgia Testa, Andrew Tillyard and Carolyn Johnston.

A provisional report has been produced and it is hoped that the definitive report will be ready in the not too distant future.

This committee was set up by the Governing Body of the IME to review and make decisions on all applications it receives for grants and awards. These include elective and internship bursaries, intercalated scholarships, institutional grants and the essay competition for foundation year doctors.

Members of the committee are:

• Professor Margaret Lloyd (Chair)
• Maureen Bannatyne (Administrator)
• Dr Ruth Carter
• Professor Bobbie Farsides
• Dr Anne-Marie Slowther
• Julie Stone
• Dr Gauri Verma

By early 2010 the Institute was aware that its current website would become inadequate to the tasks the IME would be embarking upon and the Governing Body set up the Website Committee, made up of the Chairman of the IME, Professor Raanan Gillon; Dr Liz Macleod (Chair of the new committee) and members of the Education Project. The agenda was to search out ways to enhance the current site and engender a modern platform for the expression of the IME’s purpose, thereby promoting awareness of the Core Content of Learning that has been established by the considerable workings of the Education Project set up by the Institute for the teaching of medicine ethics and law.

Through an appealing and modern website capable of informing, interacting with and encouraging a community of Ethics teachers, doctors and students worldwide, the Institute now hopes to support its agenda to expand the teaching of medical ethics and law in the medical community.

Members of the committee are:

• Dr Liz Macleod (Chair)
• Dr Zoe Fritz
• Professor Raanan Gillon
• Dr Carolyn Johnston
• Dr Wing May Kong