As incoming Chair of SAPC, I would like to reflect on what was a very successful ASM in Exeter. Thank you to Professors John Campbell, Jose Valderas, Willie Hamilton and their organising team for putting on a great event in glorious surroundings – and the sun helped!
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Guidance for making your pitch
You can use slides as you wish, but you will not be allowed more than 3 minutes.
Please save your slides in format 16 x 9. These can be emailed to office@sapc.ac.uk before 20th June.
If you also have a poster please don’t just have a slide with your poster on as it is unlikely to be clear enough for the audience to see.
We are really pleased that teaching, training and educational research are so well represented at this year’s conference. Primary care educational research is clearly gaining in sophistication, strength and impact, with positive developments in terms of multi-institution work and collaborative focus on common goals. For example, research on the importance of authenticity and continuity in medical education and the role of medical schools in enhancing recruitment. This new vigour has in no small part been spearheaded by the enthusiasm and commitment of the
Seeking SAPC executive committee members
In 2019, we will be holding an election for two general member places on SAPC Executive, to serve from July 2019-2022. Exeutive Members James Prior and Suzanne Richards' terms are due to end at the AGM in July 2019. They have both indicated that they would like to stand for re-election.
The deadline for entries is 31st March 2021
08.00 - 08.55 on Thursday 4th July 2019 during the SAPC ASM Exeter
PHoCuS group meeting, pastries and coffee will be available from 07.45 to take in to the meeting
Content
Part 1 – update:
- Membership
- Champions
- Mentoring activity 2018/2019
Part 2 – interactive session on networking and why it’s important
As 2018 comes to a close, we would like to share some of the successes in the academic primary care community over this year.
One major piece of work this year has now come to fruition – the GP Scholarship programme. Developed in collaboration with RCGP, this work was launched at the RCGP Conference in November. We hope it will help to support our GP colleagues, develop clinical scholarship across our community and promote the revitalisation of general practice as a career.
Two new SIGs were launched this year: Cancer and No Health without Mental Health.
Abstract submission deadline 17th February 2019
Submission is now closed this page is for information only
The University of Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) is hosting the annual SAPC conference, which showcases the latest research and education in academic primary care.
You can share your work through:
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.
‘Creative enquiry’ was a new strand within the SAPC programme of 2018. Through imagination, metaphor and symbol, successful participants embrace the complexity and inter-subjectivity inherent in lived experience and patient care. Knowledge-creation and meaning-making through the creation of artistic, poetic or dramatic expressions allows for the emergence of perspective and voice and can help us to gain insight on ourselves as seers and the lenses we embody.