The AMES 2025 Conference, titled “New Beginnings,” marks a critical milestone in Syria’s post-conflict educational recovery. Decades of centralization, curricular stagnation, and institutional fragmentation—exacerbated by the ongoing humanitarian crisis—have profoundly impacted the quality, accessibility, and equity of health professions education across the country.

Yet, amidst adversity lies opportunity. This moment calls for a coordinated, evidence-informed, and locally owned reform agenda that rebuilds not just educational infrastructure, but the very values, priorities, and governance systems underpinning health professions education in Syria.

This three-day national conference convenes educators, clinicians, policymakers, researchers, and students to rethink and redesign the full continuum of health professions education—from undergraduate education to postgraduate training to continuous professional development (CPD)—across the fields of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, and allied health sciences.

AMES 2025 is not merely a space for critique or diagnosis. It is a platform for co-creating actionable, context-specific strategies, rooted in the lived realities of Syrian institutions and frontline educators. The conference adopts a systems-oriented approach, examining the interdependent domains of curriculum, governance, assessment, equity, and faculty development, and situating them within Syria’s complex socio-political and economic landscape.

By bridging disciplines and generations, AMES 2025 seeks to contribute to the emergence of a resilient, accountable, and socially responsive system of health professions education—capable of producing and retaining the future workforce that Syria urgently needs and genuinely deserves.