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Journal of Medical Education

Abstract

The 1^(st) Asia-Pacific Conference on Problem-Based Learning, (APC-PBL, generic) was held in Hong Kong in 1999. In the following year, the National University of Singapore organised the 1^(st) ASEAN Conference on PBL in Health Sciences. The conference was well attended by academics and practitioners from the Asia-Pacific region and a pro-tem committee was set up to form an Asia-Pacific Association for PBL in Health Sciences. Consequently, the following conference was renamed the 2^(nd) Asia-Pacific Conference for PBL in Health Sciences (APC-PHS), held in 2001 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. At the 3^(rd) APC-PHS, held in Taipei, Taiwan (2002), it was decided to hold the Association Conference biennially. After several attempts, the Association was finally registered in Malaysia in 2003, as the Asia-Pacific Association on PBL in Health Sciences (APA-PHS). The first ＂official＂ Executive Committee (2004-06), was formalised at the formal inaugural at the 4^(th) APC-PHS held in Manila, Philippines (2004). Since then, biennial conferences have been held in Surabaya, Indonesia (2006) and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2008). At the 2008 meeting, another milestone in the journey of PBL in the Asia-Pacific region was reached: the proposed merger of the two PBL conferences, i.e., APC-PBL and APC-PHS, was formally agreed. The 1^(st) Asia-Pacific Joint Conference on PBL (APJC-PBL) was held in Taipei, Taiwan (2010), followed by Shanghai, China (2012) and Phuket, Thailand (2014). This paper documented the journey of APA-PHS in aiming to strive for excellence in innovative education for health-science professionals in the Asia-Pacific region with a special emphasis on PBL philosophy.

First Page

191

Last Page

203

DOI

10.6145/jme201619

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