The 2010 Annual Meeting of the Association for Medical Education in Europe was held in September at a venue in Glasgow, Scotland. This report describes the important contents of the conference's selected themes and provides some reflections on the presented topics. The topics covered included training to minimize errors in medical decision making, leadership in medical education, team-based learning, perspectives from a new Australian medical school, educating physicians for the future, faculty development, a need for a regulator in medical education and mobile clinical skills units. In conclusion, each medical school in each country needs to have his own ”Flexner report”. This seems to be even more true for Taiwan at the moment of planning a new six-year medical education system.