School of Public Health

Programme

Day 1: Thursday 3 February

9:00

Registration and coffee

10:00

Chairs' briefing in the Stuart Room

10:10

Welcome: Professor Azeem Majeed / Dr Paul Booton

10.20

Keynote 1 – Dr Fiona Godlee, Editor-in-Chief of the BMJ

10:50–11:20

Questions

11:30

Parallel session / Workshop 1 PDF Acrobat Document

12:45

Lunch

13:45

Debate – Dr Roger Kneebone and Dr Paul Booton
Chair: Dr Anita Berlin

‘Blood is thicker than polymer: this house believes there is no substitute for real patients in learning medicine.’

There is an increasing use of simulation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and assessment. This provides opportunities for students to learn a set curriculum in controllable settings and protects patients from potential harm. At the same time it further removes students from contact with patients and from authentic healthcare settings. Is this a step forward or backward? Roger Kneebone who has made a formidable contribution to the development of authentic simulation will argue that it is. Paul Booton who has worked to reinvent the clinical apprenticeship will argue that it is not. The truth is out there. You will decide...

15:00

Parallel session / Workshop 2 PDF Acrobat Document

16.15

Tea and coffee

16:45

Parallel session / Workshop 3 PDF Acrobat Document

18:00

Free time / HoDs meeting in the Stuart Room

19:00

Dinner

Day 2: Friday 4 February

8:00–9:00

Breakfast and check out

9:00

Keynote 2 – Professor Jan De Maeseneer
'The commitment of primary care to the Millennium Development Goals'

The United Nations have formulated the Millennium Development Goals, to be reached by 2015. We will look how primary care may contribute to the achievement of these goals. A first look at the contribution of primary care to more equity. Then the strengths of primary care are explored in addressing the social determinants of health. Finally, the way forward will be described: what are the needed evolutions for primary care's contribution to improve global health?

9:30–9:50

Questions

10:00

Parallel session / Workshop 4 PDF Acrobat Document

11:15

Coffee

11:30

Parallel session / Workshop 5 PDF Acrobat Document

12:45

Closing, prizes, Madingley 2012

13:00

Lunch

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