A pause for thought: reflections on the 2011 SAPC Annual Conference

Published Date: 31st October 2011

Publication Authors: Irving G

Extract
The 41st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) was held in Bristol. A packed and varied programme,1 together with excellent organisation, brought people together to share ‘breaking news’ in primary care teaching and research.

However, conferences are about more than dissemination of new work. They offer opportunities for activities not easily achieved by other forms of communication and scholarly activity. Conferences should be a ‘festival for ideas’: stimulating new conversations and new thoughts, as well as critiques of existing ideas.

We asked a selection of this year's Conference goers to send us a few words on ‘something that made me stop and think’. Here we reflect on what they tell us about SAPC's goal to ‘support, promote, and develop the discipline of academic primary care’.

Reeve, J; Irving, G et al. (2011). A pause for thought: reflections on the 2011 SAPC Annual Conference. Primary Health Care Research & Development. 12 (4), 393-394

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