Society for Academic Primary CareWhy is it important for SAPC to engage with other organisations?
Our engagement work supports the aims of the society: to advance primary care through education and research; build and support a vibrant academic primary care workforce; and, create impact through supporting collaborative action. Our engagement activity has an important role in:
13:30 - 15:30 Tuesday 10th July 2018, Barbican Centre, Frobisher Crescent level 4
There will be lots of oppportunity for discussion at this 2-hour workshop.
Topics will include:
Early career researchers and educators with less than 5 years work experience in primary care or within 5 years of completing their PHD will benefit the most from this workshop.
In 2018, we will be holding an election for four general member places on SAPC Executive, to serve from July 2018-2021. In addition we are also seeking nominations for a vice-chair who will serve from July 2018-2019 and will become chair in 2019 (until 2022).
SAPC, working in partnership with the RCGP, is leading work to raise the profile of, capacity for, and impact of clinical scholarship across the Primary Care community.
Scholarship refers to both the intellectual task of GP practice (Every GP a Scholar), and the collective professional wisdom of our discipline.
Scholarship is the higher level thinking that underpins the everyday pragmatism of clinical practice - the intellectual expertise that enables clinicians to deliver highest quality care to their individual patients.
Scholarship is a necessary part of professional excellence: both in the context of the clinical consultation, as well as the extended roles undertaken by many GPs including practice development and organisation, education, innovation, leadership, and research.
The GP Scholarship programming is rethinking how we recognise, champion, and cultivate General Practice as the intellectual discipline it is, and needs to be, to address today's healthcare challenges.
15.30 coffee or tea on arrival
16.00 welcome and meeting part 1
18.00 meeting ends
19.00 drinks and dinner
Overnight accommodation at Radcliffe House
All Education Research SIG and / or SAPC members are welcome to join us for our December meeting.
Date: Thursday 7th Dec 2017
Time: 10 - 15.30 (coffee from 9.30)
Venue: University of Warwick, Radcliffe House, Room RAD Space 30
Travelling to the venue (Radcliffe) - free parking is available at Radcliffe.
Attendance cost £25 (please bring cash or cheque on the day)
Edited by Professor Chris Dowrick, University of Liverpool
The latest volume in the Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities series provides a thoughtful and thought provoking new assesssment of a core concept in primary care - the Self.
Professor Dowrick described the reasons for writing the book:
"Primary care, grounded in the provision of continuous comprehensive person-centred care, is vital to the delivery of effective health care. The central notion of person-centred care, however, relies on often-unexamined concepts of self, or understandings of what it means to be
a person. This book explores contemporary pressures on the sense of self for both patient and health professional within a consultation and argues that building new concepts of the self is essential. Combining theoretical perspectives with insights drawn from practice, this volume
is suitable for those researching and studying primary healthcare, communication and relationships in healthcare and the medical humanities"
This brand new text, written by members of SAPC's SIG on The self in Primary Care is now available for preorder.
There are several of us who are trained psychologists working in primary care departments, across the UK and beyond, however this may not always be apparent. Psychologists run the risk of going unnoticed as a discipline if our roles don’t require us to provide specific psychology input and/or if our job titles don’t identify us as psychologists (e.g. holding generic titles such as research fellow). We need to identify ourselves and the skills we can offer for both ourselves and academic primary care to thrive.
In 2017, we will be holding an election for one place on SAPC Executive, to serve from July 2017-2020.
The Executive team lead the work of SAPC to raise the profile of Academic Primary Care, build a vibrant workforce by helping people Get In and Get On in APC, and enhance the impact of our work through supporting collaborations.