Dangerous Ideas
Dangerous Ideas Soapbox: a personal invitation
As part of our goal of Celebrating Different in a festival of Dangerous Ideas, we are introducing a new slot in the parallel sessions.
The submission deadline has passed - 25th March 2012.
Our Dangerous Ideas Soapbox offers a platform for you to share an important idea that you think needs to be heard in the Primary Care and/or Academic Primary Care community.
We suggest that a dangerous idea is something which challenges, but also demonstrates a commitment to action… to making a difference. Recent ideas which might fit here include:
Dr Joe Rosenthal’s statement that changes within the research community mean that Primary Care education is now the ‘golden thread’ binding the discipline of academic primary care
Professor Graham Watt’s report raising the question as to whether there is a concept of blue sky research within primary care
We therefore want to provide opportunities at this year’s Annual Scientific Meeting for raising, sharing and critically debating ideas which challenge; together with support for dissemination of the ‘best’ ideas.
This session will run as a hustings: with 8 invited speakers offered 5 minutes to put forward their idea and why it is dangerous/different, necessary, and needs dissemination. The audience will then be invited to challenge and critique the speakers. At the end of the session, there will be a vote to identify the two best “dangerous ideas”. The authors of these two ideas will be invited to disseminate their ideas through: an article to be published in the SAPC/PHCRD pages; on a webpage on the new website; also highlighted within the new SAPC newsletters (both internal to members and external to affiliated partners). Thus encouraging discussion, opportunities for collaboration and so translation of a dangerous idea into an action for change.
Click here for a form which should be completed and sent via email to office@sapc.ac.uk, clearly marked in the email title as ‘DI Soapbox'. Suggestions are invited on any topic related to (academic) primary care. Your submission should outline the idea and why it matters in no more than 500 words.
Submissions will be reviewed by the Conference Committee and judged according to three criteria of: creativity, challenge, and suitability for dissemination.
Any questions or queries should be directed to Joanne Reeve
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