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John Fry Award Winner 2025

Congratulations to Brian McMillan for winning the John Fry Award 2025. The John Fry Award is presented to a Member or Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, who has promoted the discipline of general practice through research and...

SAPC ASM 2025 Cardiff FAQs

Conference venue The conference will be held 8-10th July at Mercure Cardiff Holland House Hotel The evening drinks and dinner will be on 9th July at National Museum Cardiff What are the registration fees? A breakdown of the ticket types, costs and...

SAPC ASM 2025 Cardiff - Dinner at the museum

Aside from the academic content, one of the highlights of the SAPC ASM is the opportunity to enjoy the social aspect and networking at the evening dinner event. This year, the event will be held in the historic buildings of the National Museum...

Food Allergy In Children Research

Food allergy in children priority setting partnership We are running a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership for Food Allergy Research in Children: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/food-allergy-children What are the research priorities for food...

Population Research UK events coming up

This is your chance to shape the future of longitudinal research. Population Research UK (PRUK) is a joint ESRC and MRC initiative with UKRI funding that aims to maximise the use and benefits of longitudinal population studies (LPS) across social,...

Learn to Discover (L2D)

Learn to Discover (L2D) is a cutting edge online training course in Python programming, data science and machine learning, tailored for health, disease and bioscience. The next course will start on Monday 30th September 2024 . Please find the course...

Making a difference

Teaching general practice: Guiding principles for undergraduate general practice curricula in UK medical schools

The Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) and the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) have collaborated to produce, for the first time, national guidance on the design and delivery of general practice learning and teaching in UK medical schools. The guidance is based on published evidence and current best practice in UK medical schools and has been refined through consultation with the Heads of Teachers group in SAPC, the Medical Schools Council (MSC), the General Medical Council (GMC) and the MRCGP Curriculum Development Group. It aims to support implementation of the...

Supporting General Practice careers

Professor Val Wass led a recent task force review to examine what could be done to promote GP careers within medical schools. Academic Primary Care, and the Society for Academic Primary Care, are recognised to play a key role in this agenda. This article outlines the key recommendations from the report and the work that SAPC is doing, in conjunction with partners, to address them.

Academic Primary Care - Now More Than Ever

Strong primary care delivers better outcomes at lower cost with greater equity. Academic Primary Care underpins the sustained delivery and improvement of primary care. We need strong Academic Primary Care, Now More Than Ever.