 The main value of the MME program in Bern is that students become part of a unique network of educators and scholars. We engage international and local experts in the field and they support our students in their personal and professional development. Our goal is to improve healthcare and patient outcomes. Therefore, we need educators who inspire innovation and who are able to deal with the complexity of our healthcare system. Qualifications as medical educators and scholars become more and more important. The story is that I just talked to a former student who just finished the course in the cohort before us and she was really fascinated about the course and she mentioned that I should really do it and go for it especially since I thought at this moment I'm about becoming even more involved in teaching. I had been thinking quite a long time about having some education about medical education. I had seen some programs which could be followed online with Chicago or Dandy and I know myself I just have to have deadlines and meet people and work together so I chose Bern because of the group work. I was very much impressed by the broad spectrum of the subjects which have been taught by the international expertise which was very impressive for me. The definite highlight is group work, group life, group games and making jokes and sharing experiences and eating together in the evening and meeting in the morning and having coffee together and all the times we spend together as a think tank. To challenge them, to ask questions and I think really that's for me the highlight to be in this community and I'm quite sure it's possible still after we finish now this course to have contact to the people. I think this is a point we really have to discuss. It is a lot of work, the workload is really high. It's always worth it, no question about that but for me personally I didn't expect it to be that much since especially you have to make sure that we have pre-course assignments, we have the course weeks and we have post-course assignments and in addition the master thesis and I think you can combine it and bring it all together but it is a huge effort. It's easy if you can get some time out and protected time to work even more if you have a family because there's still a lot of work to do after the week sessions. I became capable to create a learning environment, to stimulate other teachers in the sense of faculty development and also to motivate the residents to get engaged in a continuous medical education. I think it changed really how I teach, how I do stuff, so workshops or lectures are I think completely different now comparing two or three years ago. I feel like in your personal development and in your professional development is also of great help. Not only for this, don't reduce this course to a point where it's just about giving lectures or so. It is really a development of your personality and I think to sum up that's the most, the greatest part you get out of it. The group as I said every year is very collegial. They very clearly seem to support one another. The course is laid out in a way that people seem to enjoy and draws on both local talent and international expertise and I've yet to hear a bad word about it so I think all the people that I've spoken to who have gone through it have come out feeling very positive. And so I think the program helps people develop some of the critical thinking skills, helps expose them to evidence and to ideas that are part of the education world and hopefully as a result helps them think much more deeply about the practical problems that they're facing in a way that makes it more likely that they'll be able to find the answers that will be appropriate to them. I think it's worth reinforcing that education research like any kind of research isn't easy. It takes some dedicated time and some energy and resources to be put towards it. I think very often people assume because they've been educated that they have the skill to do education research and when people get into a program like this they quickly come to realize that there's a lot of detail that they won't have naturally and I think both giving them the content and the opportunity to play with some of the ideas that are presented in the medical education research literature as well as getting exposure to a number of colleagues and people who preceded them in terms of individuals like myself and the other teachers who have made a career to this. Hopefully that provides some opportunity to give them a leg up so they're not starting from scratch. So in my mind the thing that we need the most are people who are dedicated to the craft, who are willing to invest some energy into discovering what has come before them rather than just assuming that they know it all because they've been trained themselves and an openness and collegiality to playing with new ideas and seeing how their own institutions as well as the fields more generally can be pushed forward. As editor-in-chief of one of the main journals in the field I've had an opportunity to travel around the world and really haven't seen a higher quality conversation anywhere that the students here are just as good as you're going to find coming out of any program. What I personally like about the MME program, Bern, is that students come from different health professions backgrounds. This mixture is an enrichment for the discussions and their learning process in small groups. I would like to like, please, please, please, more French-speaking people. I would repeat the course just now.