AMSE Executive Committee and the Organising Committee have decided to arrange this pre-conference Workshop in order to promote development and education of knowledge on how to manage a medical school. The Workshop will be chaired by Professor Michael Shattock (University of London).

Tutors and their topics:

• Professor Leinster - relations between national health care and medical education systems
• Professor Machado - resource allocation in clinical training of medical and para-medical staff
• Professor Prat - non-medically trained managers in running medical schools