Introduction:

Since the very beginning of the medical education in Egypt, the medical schools have followed the British medical education system. That is the study is discipline based, and teacher centred for 6 years followed by one internship year. About 5 years ago many medical schools in the United Kingdom (UK) started to change the duration of study to 5 years that are followed by 2 foundation years. Similarly, Egypt has changed the distribution of the undergraduate medical program years. Earlier in the UK the general medical council issued 'Tomorrow's Doctor" requirements for the medical education program. The requirements included the integrated student-centred strategy. Similarly, the Egyptian National Academic Reference Standards for medicine were published NAQAAE and required integrated student-centred undergraduate medical education as well as modern assessment methods. As the British medical schools have more experience in the medical programs reform and changes into integrated learning and assessment, the Egyptian medical schools would like to build a collaborative partnership with the UK medical schools.

Egyptian partners’ objectives:

• The Development of comprehensive assessment process for the new undergraduate integrated medical program in Egypt
• To establish a faculty training of trainers (TOT) program on the assessment methods of the new MBBCH program in the three Egyptian partners’ medical schools.
• To develop a questions bank for the new MBBCH program in the three Egyptian partners’ medical schools.
• To develop integrated objective structured clinical/practical examinations (OSCE/PE) tools for the new MBBCH program in the three Egyptian partners medical schools.

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