Welcome to EAMET. EAMET (the East Asian Association of Medical English Teachers) was established in the summer of 2017. The aim of EAMET is to establish a multi-national, multi-disciplinary organization which shares an interest in sharing and developing the quality of medical English teaching and learning in the East Asian region.

Our goal is to create a hub and resource center from which practitioners can submit and retrieve classroom materials, research papers, collaborative ideas and requests online, with a future goal of creating an online newsletter and holding a small, specialized regional conference.

But why ‘East Asia’? We believe that this part of the world shares certain defining cultural and linguistic features which impact both the nature of language pedagogy and medical education. While the region manifests the notion of unity in diversity, it also sets itself apart as distinct from other regions of the world. Rather than depend on Anglo-American models, EAMET seeks to unite medical English teachers in the region to collaborate with their peers using English to foster local management of our shared circumstances. Welcome aboard.

Michael Guest – Associate Professor of English, Faculty of Medicine,

University of Miyazaki, Japan

Coordinator – EAMET (The East Asian Association of Medical English Teachers)