Welcome to the 41st SAPC ASM
We look forward to welcoming you in Glasgow in 2012 for the 41st SAPC Annual Scientific Meeting, which this year will be held jointly with the RCGP Annual Conference.
Our theme this year is Celebrating Difference. A joint conference is a new adventure for both SAPC and the RCGP. We look forward to the opportunity to celebrate the unique contribution each organisation brings, whilst also recognising our shared goal of improving primary health care.
Similarly we celebrate the different perspectives offered by the diverse multidisciplinary streams which make up the academic primary care discipline; and also the synergistic effect of bringing us together under a shared umbrella of Academic Primary Care (APC).
And we celebrate the difference between the individuals at the heart of the Primary Care vision: the importance of person-centred care; recognising the challenges and complexities to our discipline which this brings.
You will also notice some changes in our format this year. Our conference is a great chance to come together and share our ‘breaking news’ in primary care teaching and research – letting people know about what we’ve been doing. So we still have our usual opportunities to submit abstracts for presentations, posters, workshops and our successful Panel sessions.
But conferences also offer time and space for stimulating new conversations and new thoughts. Our aim is to encourage a ‘Festival of Dangerous Ideas’ at this year’s Conference: to stimulate critical, creative and shared conversations.
So this year, we are also offering an opportunity to submit an abstract under our ‘Ideas and Innovations’ section. To encourage the exchange of new ideas whether nascent or realised, wise or whacky: what is important is that they are interesting and have the potential to change the way we think and work. Or as part of our Dangerous Ideas Soapbox.
You will find links here to all the details you need to submit your ideas and work to the meeting, to register for the Conference, and to view the programme as details emerge.
We look forward to seeing you in Glasgow!
Conference Chair: Professor Helen Lester
Scientific Programme Chair: Professor Christian Mallen
Educational Programme Chair: Professor Bob McKinley
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