Quotes from mentees of their experience of the SAPC mentorship programme "It has been invaluable for me – I’ve had a good relationship with my mentor who has understood my needs well. I’ve been through a lot of changes in the past 2 years- having a baby and changing employer, and my mentor’s support has been crucial." *** "I have been very pleased with the way that the mentoring scheme went and I feel that I benefited greatly from being able to discuss work and career-related issues with someone who was not directly involved in my work and had no detailed knowledge of it. Explaining issues in...

Quotes from SAPC mentors of their experience of the mentorship programme "For me being a mentor is about supporting academic staff to fulfil their potential in their terms. I see my role as facilitative, involving listening, questioning, synthesising and commenting, in that order. I very much enjoy it. Given the very demanding and often insecure environments that many researchers currently work in, helping people to explore their work priorities and goals, whilst at the same time placing them in the context of the rest of their lives, is very gratifying. It also makes you review and reflect...

The Annual General Meeting of the Society for Academic Primary Care will take place from 12.30 to 13.25 on Thursday 7th July 2016 during the 45th Annual Scientific Meeting at Dublin Castle. Here are the papers: Agenda Paper A - draft minutes from AGM 2015 Oxford Paper B - Officers' report Paper Ci - Treasurer's report Paper Cii - Accounts year end 31 May 2016 Paper D - Head of Teaching group report (HoTs), Head of Departments group report (HODs) will be given as a verbal report at the AGM Venue: Poddle Room, Printworks Building, Dublin Castle Copies of all the papers will be handed out at the...

19th May, University of Manchester The SAPC early careers working group held their first networking and career development day on the 19th of May, kindly hosted by the University of Manchester. Fifteen researchers and five speakers joined Dr Helen Atherton (Warwick) and Dr Rebecca Morris (Manchester) from across the UK, with attendees coming from as far as Southampton and Glasgow. We kicked things off by getting everyone talking – Joanne Reeve, Chair of SAPC and Associate Clinical Professor at Warwick hosted a session on your ‘2 minute pitch,’ forcing us all to think about how we sell...

Telling someone in three minutes why your work matters is a skill that will be new to many of us. Here we offer a brief introduction to elevator pitches - what they are, how to do them, and why this is an important skill to learn.

Dear SAPC members The Farr Institute executive has agreed to fund travel to a sandpit to develop collaborative research proposals on primary care trials and data analytics. It will comprise 20-30 participants drawn from Farr Institute Primary Care Working Group, and others with an interest in developing research proposals to make greater use of primary care data and EHR systems for clinical trials and observational studies. You are being invited to express an interest in attending the meeting in Swansea before the International Population Data Linkage Conference on 23rd August 2016 from 0900-...

Describing the role of Academic General Practice within APC; how SAPC supports AGPs; and support for Getting In and Getting On in Academic General Practice

A brief guide to SAPC to help you navigate around the site. Lost don't know how to find something ? Not sure where all the PHocus things are or where is the early career group newsletters then this is the article for you

Outline the SAPC position on the role of/potential for Academic General Practice to support efforts to tackle the UK GP workforce crisis

A call for nominations for this year's SAPC Exec elections