International Institute for Medical Education & Advancement
IIMEA builds international sub-speciality communities around a small group of founding clinicians. We handle the production and the platform. You bring the experience, and you share in the revenue generated by your community members.
Why this exists
Sub-speciality expertise moves through medicine slowly. The judgement that matters most — the grey cases, the thing you would do differently, the reason the guideline does not quite fit — largely stays inside the centre where it was learned.
IIMEA exists to give that judgement somewhere durable to go, and an international group of peers at your level to receive it.
What a community is
A community is a single sub-speciality group of validated clinicians — closer to a tertiary care team that happens to span continents than to a course or a forum.
Each one sits at the level of care where guidelines thin out and experience starts doing the work.
IIMEA communities operate at the two marked levels.
Senior registrars declaring a specialist interest, junior and senior consultants, associate specialists, and MD and PhD candidates. Every member is credential-validated before entry.
Those formats are a starting shape, not a syllabus. Communities set their own agenda — if the useful thing this month is a long argument about a guideline nobody quite agrees with, that is what runs.
What you would get
Members pay a subscription to join a community. Its founding clinicians share in the revenue that community generates, distributed by how much each has put in.
Your teaching produced properly once, then recorded, tagged, and searchable — reaching an international group continuously rather than a lecture hall once. Collaboration that runs at the speed of the field instead of the speed of its committees.
Communities are where senior registrars declare a specialist interest and grow into it. You would be developing the clinicians who run this sub-speciality next — beyond the handful who happen to rotate through your department.
A standing international group at your own level: grey cases, guideline debate across borders, journal club, and a working route into collaboration, fellowships, and research.
IIMEA is a commercial institute. Members pay to join, and founding clinicians share in the revenue their community generates — earned through engagement rather than granted. You should know exactly how the model works before you lend us your name, and we will go through the specifics with you directly.
The lectures you produce remain yours. You license them to IIMEA rather than signing them over, and you can ask for your content to be removed.
What it asks
Three things when you join:
Delivering those lectures, chairing discussion in your community, and reviewing the course material once a year.
Validation is not paid separately — completing it is what makes you a revenue-share participant in the community.
IIMEA does the production, the editing, and the platform. What we ask for is your judgement, not your evenings.
Who we are looking for
Ten founding clinicians per community, recruited internationally. No lead, no chair — ten peers.
If you are not sure whether you qualify, get in touch.
Who is asking
Mr Alexander Trevatt
Plastic Surgeon
Dr Gethin Lewis
Physician
IIMEA came out of a straightforward observation: as knowledge becomes ever more commoditised, what matters is access to expert experience and to dynamic communities.
Now forming
We are recruiting ten founding clinicians for our first community, Pleural Medicine, across the UK, Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand.
If you practise at tertiary or quaternary level in pleural disease — or you know who should be in the room — we would like to speak with you.