The 23rd Congress of the Spanish Medical Education Society (SEDEM) will be held in Cádiz on October 25th-27th 2017. The biennial congress of the SEDEM, which has been Hispano-Portuguese since 2011, is the main meeting point for all those interested in medical education in both our countries, but is also attended by many of our Latin-American colleagues and friends. This scientific event, one of the most important in this field in our country, has grown steadily in terms of both the number of participants and the quality of the contributions that are presented, which is proof of the fact that medical educators are interested in innovating and adapting so as to be able to meet the challenges they have to face in training healthcare professionals.

The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Cádiz eagerly awaits the arrival of the educational community working in this area. It has thus drawn up a very attractive and interesting scientific programme, which includes burning issues in medical education concerning the different levels of training (graduate, postgraduate, specialist training, career development) and which cover all the health sciences. To this end, the organisers have contacted a panel of experts and speakers who will offer the best of their experience and expertise.

Topics to be addressed, among others, include the new concept of entrustable professional activities, which goes a step beyond competency-based training; the management of medical training at all its levels; programmatic assessment from a holistic perspective, the career development of university lecturers and the specialist training tutor; the integration of simulation in bachelor's degree courses; patient-focused education; the involvement of health science students and training specialists in their own training and in medical education as a scientific domain, as well as their participation in the new approaches to reforming specialist training.

As is usual in such cases, different workshops will be held in the pre-congress symposium, some of the most interesting being those related to assessment in the workplace, the flipped classroom, or the assessment of clinical practice in the bachelor's degree course, in addition to others that address the challenge of how to teach large groups in class, how to work with entrustable professional activities, and whether or not it is possible to teach our students empathy. All these topics will be delivered by national and international experts from countries like Portugal, United Kingdom and Holland, which are contexts in which medical education has reached a high level of development and excellence.

As can be seen, we must remember to leave a few days free in our diaries so as to be able to attend this meeting. The congress, which is being organised by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Cádiz, has to be an important appointment for all those involved in medical education in our country, but the most attractive thing about it will be the contents that each of us contribute to it. One of the most relevant aspects of science is its dissemination via congresses and scientific journals. We have made it quite apparent that medical education is an area of knowledge like any other and, therefore, must have the same means of expression. Enhancing the congress by participating in the workshops, through our communications or with our discussions in the round tables is a means of personal improvement, but above all it represents yet another step forward in the pursuit of excellence in the training of healthcare professionals. Cádiz awaits us.