The Annual General Meeting of the Society for Academic Primary Care will take place from 12.45 to 13.45 on Thursday 12th July 2018 during the 47th Annual Scientific Meeting at the Barbican Centre, London
Here are the papers:
Paper A - draft minutes from AGM 2017 University of Warwick
Paper B - Officers' report
Clinical Practice is changing, so medical education must too (Wenzel 2017). In a world characterised by widespread access to knowledge, professional practice is increasingly defined not by what you know, but by how you use what you know (Wenzel 2017).
For General Practice, this means revising our understanding of the medical generalist role. It is no longer sufficient (accurate or adequately distinct) to describe the generalist as someone who ‘knows a little about a lot of things.
SAPC has instigated a number of initiatves to support the careers of primary care academics involved in education and/or research. We have groups dedicated to supporting the needs of academic GPs, non-clinical members (Primary Healthcare Scientists - PHoCuS members), Early Career Academics, We run career development workshops, a mentorship scheme, as well as offering a range of prizes. The SAPC Ambassador role is relatively recent and offers opportunities for people to join the work we are doing whilst developing new skills and career opportunities.
13:30 - 15:30 Tuesday 10th July 2018, Barbican Centre, Frobisher Room 4, level 4
Event Organiser: Dr Victoria Tzortziou Brown
Speakers: Prof Amanda Howe, Prof Stephanie Taylor, Prof Anita Berlin and Prof Joanne Reeve
There will be lots of opportunity for discussion at this 2-hour workshop.
Topics will include:
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).
Because EXCELLENT General Practice needs not only gold standard evidence, but also GOLD STANDARD WISDOM so as to d
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.