The University of Leeds, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, is managing the Scientific Programme of the annual SAPC conference, which showcases the latest research and education in academic primary care. In 2021 the conference will be virtual. We invite you to submit work in the following formats: Presentations: short orals (between 3 and 6 minutes) or posters - review criteria SUBMISSION FORM - please login to your user account or create one to be able to submit Interactive workshops - submission form and review criteria Creative enquiry and how to submit - review criteria Conference...

https://aaapc.org.au/ Every year we offer a number of prestigious prizes for presenters at our annual scientific meeting. You can find out details on the prizes on offer and how to apply in this article.

We had planned to hold SAPC's Annual General Meeting on 16th July 2020 but this will not take place physically this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We are providing the papers for the AGM on-line (links below). We ask you to read the papers and encourage you to email any questions or suggestions you might have to the SAPC office office@sapc.ac.uk . Please do this before 31st July 2020. We will keep a record of correspondence and summarise it as draft notes from AGM 2020. The AGM next year will be held on 1st July 2021 at the University of Leeds durikng the 49th Annual Scientific Meeting...

Click the image below to view Sarah's presentation The cartoons in the presentation slides are from StoryboardThat . An introduction by Carolyn Chew-Graham, SAPC Chair and comment from Sarah can be found below Introduction by Carolyn Chew-Graham Nick Thomas (Clinical Research Lead, RCGP) and I had great pleasure in attending a 'virtual' seminar hosted by St Luke's Hospice, Sheffield, at which the winner of the Yvonne Carter award, Sarah Mitchell, presented her PhD study 'a realist inquiry into the delivery of palliative care to children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions'...

“Nosotros” Approach: Community health workers as trust builders and community healers Authors: RL Ferrer, CG Schlenker, RS Poursani, I Cruz, P Noel, R Palmer, CR Jaén Department of Family and Community Medicine, UT Health San Antonio, Texas, USA Context: Promoting patients’ commitment to engage in self-care is a core goal of primary care, yet often elusive in the context of social deprivation. Objective: To report on an innovative, practice-integrated, community health worker (CHW) intervention designed to promote trusting relationships and effective self-care in patients with type 2 diabetes...

The Australian Contraceptive ChOice pRoject (ACCORd): A cluster randomised controlled trial aimed at increasing LARC uptake Presenter: Danielle Mazza Authors: Danielle Mazza , Cathy Watson, Kirsten Black, Jayne Lucke, Angela Taft, Kevin McGeechan, Marion Haas, Kathleen McNamee, Jeffrey Peipert Context LARCs reduce unintended pregnancy and abortion rates but Australian uptake is low. General practitioners (GPs) are ideally placed to promote LARCs. Objective The Australian Contraceptive ChOice pRoject (ACCORd), adapted from the US Contraceptive CHOICE study, evaluated whether a complex primary...

In 2020, we will be holding an election ( link to constitution) for two places on SAPC Executive , to serve from July 2020-2023. 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. Each Executive member leads on an area of work for the Society. Details of the current team can be found on the Exec page . We're now inviting expressions of interest in standing for this year's election. You must be a member of SAPC to stand...

This year's Northern SAPC Conference saw the beginning of a new initiative - the SAPC Northern Powerhouse. The SAPC NPO is a network of networks - bringing together SAPC departments of Academic Primary Care within partners engaged in primary care schoalrship from across our region. To drive collaborative innovations in education and research that deliver sustained and sustainable primary care excellence.

Tell someone you are training to be a doctor, and the response is often, “what will you specialise in?” Many doctors specialise in the management of specific conditions (e.g. diabetes or cancer) or of organ systems (e.g. cardiology, urology). But growing proportions of patients have problems that don’t fit neatly into these biomedically defined categories. Which is why we also need doctors who specialise in whole person medicine . These are doctors with the distinct skills and expertise of medical generalism [1]. Skills that enable them to safely construct robust, individually-tailored, whole-person explanations of illness experience; and so implement person-centred healthcare designed to enhance health-related capacity for daily living [2]. The NHS Long Term Plan [3] recognises that changes in our population – including growing numbers of older people living with (often multiple) chronic illness - mean we need to expand our capacity for medical generalist practice within modern healthcare – both in hospital and primary care settings. So what is medical generalism? What does the medical generalist do? What skills do they use to practice? And what do you need to know if you are interested in working as a medical generalist? This essay offers an introduction to how you can use your medical training to find out more about this most intellectually stimulating area of medical practice. It forms part of the Undergraduate Curriculum Guidance produced by SAPC and RCGP