General Practice with Primary Health Care Section
Aims
- To Further the purposes of the Society in the field of general practice with primary health care in collaboration with the many diverse disciplines and professions that contribute
- Provides a national independent forum to promote high quality education and exchange on topical and emerging issues in primary care.
Established in 1950, the Section was instrumental in its early days in the founding of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 1952.
Its activities generate opportunities:
- to learn with, from and about other professions
- to call upon specialist expertise from education, research and practice to enhance and update clinical knowledge and skills
- to stimulate innovation in education and practice
- to enrich understanding of primary health care in its cultural and environmental context.
A range of day conferences and evening seminars are held each year complemented by a week-long GP Forum and, for the first time in 2008, an overseas study visit (to the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm).
Many meetings are held jointly with other sections of the RSM and other professional bodies whose members attend as guests.
The Section welcomes ALL who have contact with individuals, families and communities with and through primary health care.
Amsterdam study trip
The General Practice with Primary Healthcare Section is organising a study visit to Amsterdam from Wednesday 26 to Saturday 29 October with Jon Baines Tours. This will include visits of cultural and professional interest. The cost of the tour is £695 per person which will include:
- Return travel to Amsterdam via Brussels on Eurostar
- Transfers between the station and hotel
- Three nights at the Hotel Eden Rembrandt Square on a sharing basis (Single night supplement is £195 and an additional night at the hotel from £145 per room)
- Breakfasts daily
- Welcome and farewell dinner
- Amsterdam and Rembrandt waliking tours and visits to Rijksmuseum and Het Rembrandthuis
- Talks and discussions with Nivel, Rutgers Nisso and NVVH
We are offering 4 bursaries of £600 each to enable students and trainees to join us on this study visit.
Applications should be made to the section administrator Gemma Lamb at gp@rsm.ac.uk and should include:
- A copy of your curriculum vitae
- A statement in no more than 750 words discussing what you would expect to gain from the visit.
The closing date for applications is June 30th 2011
Further details about the trip can be found by clicking on the following links:
- Study tour to Amsterdam [PDF 490k]
- Booking form [PDF 293k]
