International Institute for Medical Education & Advancement
IIMEA builds international sub-speciality communities for clinicians, each led by up to ten Founding Experts, who chair webinars, teach courses and share their expertise with doctors from around the world.
Community members pay a monthly subscription, with Founding Experts sharing in the profit.
Looking to join as a member? See what membership includes.
Why this exists
IIMEA communities are live, private forums alongside the societies and training structures clinicians already belong to. In each one, doctors in a single sub-speciality build an international support network and discuss day-to-day practice, career advancement and teaching with their peers.
Daily life within a sub-speciality is filled with wisdom and learnings that often never go beyond the local hospital teams. IIMEA communities provide an international outlet where you can discuss difficult cases and new research, and hear opinions from colleagues around the world. They are designed to bridge the gap between annual conferences, meetings and guideline updates, with new content each week, chaired or delivered by Founding Experts.
A good idea in a regional unit should not stay in that unit. IIMEA gives local work an international audience.
What a community is
Each community brings together validated clinicians in a single sub-speciality, working at tertiary and quaternary level. It works much like a tertiary care team, with colleagues who happen to be spread across several continents.
IIMEA communities operate at the two marked levels.
Members are validated trainees and consultants in the sub-speciality. They join for the courses, a live session most weeks, and a peer group at their level.
These formats are a starting point. The Founding Experts decide what their community covers and which formats work best for it.
For Founding Experts
Membership is a paid subscription, taken out by individual clinicians or by their institutions. Each community's Founding Experts share in the profit it generates, weighted by how much each contributes.
A combination of pre-recorded and live events, all made available to an international membership. Discussion with international colleagues continues every week, throughout the year. The lectures you produce remain yours, and you remain free to use them in your own non-commercial teaching.
Communities are where higher specialty trainees develop a specialist interest. As a Founding Expert, you help develop the clinicians who will lead your sub-speciality, well beyond those who rotate through your own department.
Each community is a standing international group at your own level, for difficult cases, guideline debate and journal club. It also opens routes into collaboration, fellowships and research.
What we ask
We know how busy you are, so we have designed the role of a Founding Expert to minimise how much time you need to commit.
Before your community opens, we ask only two things of you.
There is no separate fee for this initial work. Completing it earns you your share of the community's profit.
You host around five live sessions a year, join others when your schedule allows, and review your material once a year. No one is expected to attend every session. Every session is recorded, and the discussion continues in the forum afterwards.
IIMEA takes care of the production, the editing and the platform throughout.
Who we are looking for
Any one of the following qualifies:
Each community has up to ten Founding Experts, recruited internationally, and each has an equal say in its direction.
If you are unsure whether you qualify, we would be glad to hear from you.
About us
Mr Alexander Trevatt
Plastic Surgeon
Dr Gethin Lewis
Physician
We are two practising doctors. IIMEA is a passion project for us, and we believe it represents a positive direction for medicine internationally, cultivating lively and thriving communities, each led by the senior clinicians in its sub-speciality.
Now forming
We are currently building the platform and recruiting our founding faculty: up to ten Founding Experts for The Pleural Community, from the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.
If you practise pleural medicine at tertiary or quaternary level, we would welcome a conversation. Please write to us, and we will arrange a twenty-minute call at a time that suits your schedule.
If a colleague comes to mind who would be a natural fit, we would be grateful for an introduction.