Education and Educational Research in APC
Education and training are central to SAPC's goal to support, promote and advance the discipline of academic primary care. Our Networking pages in this month's PHCRD journal include an article introducing the recently established national Heads of Primary Care Teaching (HoTs) Group. The group's work to develop primary care education and educational research is essential to achieving the Society's aims. Indeed, the authors suggest that as primary care research becomes increasingly specialised, primary care education may provide the common thread that continues to bind the discipline together.
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In their article, Dr Rosenthal, Professor McKinley and Dr Pearson recall SAPC's origins as the Association of University Teachers of General Practice, and reflect how education remains both a core activity and major source of funding for many of today's academic departments.
Working to meet the growing opportunities and demands for undergraduate teaching, they also recognise the changing landscape for postgraduate training. Multidisciplinary training remains a central goal. The SAPC Educational Research Special Interest Group seeks to develop the research approaches necessary to support this process.
Their article poses challenges for all of us working in academic primary care. Including whether the increasing specialisation of primary care research risks fragmentation of the discipline into methodological or clinical groupings? And whether primary care education now provides the common thread which binds our discipline together?
You can read the full article by clicking here and scrolling down to the Networking section.
And join discussions on the issues raised in our Discussion Forum.
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