What executive members actually do
Four short films from past and present executive members on what they do and why they think its worth it
Useful Information
Five things you might not know about Academic Primary Care
Surprising facts about academic primary care. Read on...
SAPC Supporting Your Career
SAPC champions excellent academic primary care at the heart of constant improvement in primary care provision. We support your work and your career through improving public, political and professional understanding of why what we do matters. Building and sustaining a vibrant Academic Primary Care workforce lies at the heart of what we do. https://sapc.ac.uk/article/sapc-developing-strategic-plan
SAPC: Developing a strategic plan
Academic primary care offers solutions to the complex problems facing today's primary care. In 2013, SAPC set out a new strategic plan to maximise the impact of our discipline in driving improvement in primary care through scholarship.
Our Position Statement
Our unique discipline brings together teachers, researchers, and practitioners from a range of disciplinary backgrounds to promote excellence in the development, delivery and evaluation of primary care policy and practice.
Blue sky research for primary care
Basic research in primary care develops the conceptual understanding of the content processes organisation and outcomes of primary care. Professor Watt's report describes why it matters. SAPC response describes the challenges for the APC community to make it happen.
Developing quality criteria for community based education
At a SAPC scientific meeting a number of practice based teaching criteria were established you can read about them here
A short history of Academic General Practice in UK medical schools 1948-2000
This anthology describes the vision, struggles and successors of those whose pioneering work established the discipline of academic General Practice and then Primary Care in the UK. It is the first collective record of the evolution of general medical practice as an academic discipline in over half a century.
New Century, New Challenges
A report summarising recent developments in academic general practice and primary care in medical schools in the United Kingdom. It considers the challenges facing departments of general practice and primary care, and how further investment in these departments could help to address major challenges facing academic medicine and the health service.
Abstract review: examining inter-rater agreement
Selecting a programme for an academic conference is crucial to maximise the usefulness and impact of the meeting . SAPC uses a transparent process of abstract selection – a process informed by critical review.