Harmen Tiddens Award for Cees van der Vleuten

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On 29 September 2021 Cees van der Vleuten received a career award from Utrecht University: the Harmen Tiddens medal. Harmen Tiddens was a pediatric professor at Utrecht University. To promote education, Utrecht University has created a Harmen Tiddens Society. In addition to all kinds of medical education activities, the Society awards a prize for a person having made a significant contribution to medical education internationally.

Congratulations to Cees for being awarded with this honour this year.

Harmen Tiddens was strongly interested in medical education. He was also the founding father of Maastricht University and became the first rector of Maastricht University.

Watch Prof. Dr. Cees van de Vleuten's Harmen Tiddens Educational Grand Lecture 2021 "Three paradigms in the assessment of competence: where are you?"  Grand Lecture Cees van der Vleuten