Medical Education welcomes three new deputy editors

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Medical Education is pleased to announce the appointment of three new deputy editors, who joined the team in February 2008. In alphabetical order, they are: Dr Boulet is Associate Vice President, Research and Data Resources, for the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER®), located in Philadelphia, USA. He is also Assistant Vice President, Research and Evaluation, for the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG®). For the past 12 years, Dr Boulet has worked on the development of performance-based credentialing assessments in medicine. He has published extensively in the field of medical education, focusing specifically on measurement issues pertaining to performance-based assessments, including objective structured clinical examinations and various manikin-based evaluation methodologies. More recently, he has become involved in health professions workforce research, conducting studies to enumerate and assess the impact of doctor migration. Charlotte Rees is a psychologist and educationalist by background. She is Associate Professor in Medical Education and Director of Educational Research at the Office of Postgraduate Medical Education (OPME), Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia. She joined OPME in February 2007 from Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, UK, where she was the foundation academic lead for three longitudinal themes of the new undergraduate medical curriculum: human sciences; communication skills, and personal and professional development. Her major research interests include medical students’ professionalism and professional identity formation, health and social care service user involvement in medical education, and student–patient–doctor interaction. She has expertise as a quantitative and qualitative researcher and employs innovative methods of analysis in medical education research. Charlotte Ringsted graduated as MD in 1978 and became a specialist in anaesthesiology in 1991. She left clinical medicine in 1993 for a career in medical education. She obtained a Master’s degree in health professions education (MHPE) from Maastricht University in 1997 and a PhD from the same institution in 2004. In 2007 she was named full Professor of Medical Education at Copenhagen University. Current research interests include simulation-based training, work-based learning and assessment, assessment of specialists’ continuous professional development, and the use of students and patients as teachers. Charlotte co-founded the Danish Association of Medical Education, served as its president from 2003 to 2005, and currently sits on the executive board of the Association of Medical Education in Europe. It is with open arms that I welcome these three distinguished scholars to our editorial team as I look forward to the direction and guidance they will surely contribute to both the journal and the field of medical education.