IIMEA: International Institute for Medical Education & Advancement

Why this exists

A conference once a year.
A guideline every five.

Sub-speciality expertise moves through medicine slowly. The judgement that matters most largely stays inside the centre where it was learned: the grey cases, the thing you would do differently, the reason the guideline does not quite fit.

IIMEA exists to give that judgement somewhere durable to go, and an international group of peers at your level to receive it.

What a community is

A room, not an audience.

A community is a single sub-speciality group of validated clinicians. It sits closer to a tertiary care team that happens to span continents than to a course or a forum.

Each one sits at the level of care where guidelines thin out and experience starts doing the work.

Primary General practice

Secondary General speciality care: straightforward presentations, clear diagnoses

Tertiary Declared sub-speciality practice: intermediate and specialist procedures

Quaternary Complex, recurrent, and referral-only disease

IIMEA communities operate at the two marked levels.

Who is in the room

Senior registrars declaring a specialist interest, junior and senior consultants, associate specialists, and MD and PhD candidates. Every member is credential-validated before entry.

What it carries

A shared foundational course at tertiary level, and ten advanced courses at quaternary depth, one from each Founding Expert. IIMEA produces the material; the Founding Experts direct it and record it
A live session most weeks: case presentations, international guideline discussion, journal club, drug discovery and pipeline
Non-clinical teaching: publication, chairing, complaints and conflict, career planning
A forum and direct messaging between members
Everything recorded, tagged, and searchable, so material produced once keeps working

Those formats are a starting shape, and communities set their own agenda. If the useful thing this month is a long argument about a guideline nobody quite agrees with, that is what runs.

What you would get

Four reasons
to put your name to it.

A share of the revenue

Members pay a subscription to join a community. Its Founding Experts share in the revenue that community generates, distributed by how much each has put in.

Modern methods

Your teaching produced properly once, then kept available continuously to an international group. Collaboration that runs at the speed of the field, not the speed of its committees.

The next generation

Communities are where senior registrars declare a specialist interest and grow into it. You would be developing the clinicians who run this sub-speciality next, beyond the handful who happen to rotate through your department.

Ideas and research

A standing international group at your own level: grey cases, guideline debate across borders, journal club, and a working route into collaboration, fellowships, and research.

IIMEA is a commercial institute. Members pay to join, and Founding Experts share in the revenue their community generates, earned through engagement rather than granted. You should know exactly how the model works before you lend us your name, and we will go through the specifics with you directly.

The lectures you produce remain yours. You license them to IIMEA rather than signing them over, and you can ask for your content to be removed.

What it asks

A few meetings.
Then you record.

Two things before your community opens:

Shape the teaching. A lecture or two inside the community’s shared foundational course, and one advanced course of your own, on a topic you choose. We do the research, the syllabus and the slides. You set the direction in a first meeting, talk through the drafts in the next, and record at your own desk once it reads the way you would say it
Bring ten people in. You hold ten Founding Member seats giving a year’s free access, for registrars, PhD students, consultants, or fellow specialists. You arrive into a room you helped fill

Then a rhythm

Hosting a few live sessions across the year, joining others when the week allows, and reviewing the material once a year. Nobody is expected at everything. Every session is recorded, and the discussion carries on in the forum afterwards.

That first block of work is not paid separately. Completing it is what makes you a revenue-share participant in the community.

IIMEA does the production, the editing, and the platform. What we ask for is your judgement, not your evenings.

Who we are looking for

Any one of these qualifies.

A professor in the sub-speciality
A consultant on a national or international guideline group for the sub-speciality
A consultant who teaches nationally or internationally on their sub-speciality
An associate specialist working at national level on their sub-speciality

Ten Founding Experts per community, recruited internationally, with no lead and no chair.

If you are not sure whether you qualify, get in touch.

Who is asking

IIMEA Founders

Mr Alexander Trevatt
Plastic Surgeon

Dr Gethin Lewis
Physician

IIMEA came out of a straightforward observation: as knowledge becomes ever more commoditised, what matters is access to expert experience and to the peers who hold it.

Now forming

The Pleural Community.
Our first.

We are recruiting ten Founding Experts for The Pleural Community, across the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.

If you practise at tertiary or quaternary level in pleural disease, or you know who should be in the room, we would like to speak with you.

[email protected]

A conference once a year.A guideline every five.