Programme
Day 1: Thursday 3 February
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9:00 |
Registration and coffee |
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10:00 |
Chairs' briefing in the Stuart Room |
| 10:10 |
Welcome: Professor Azeem Majeed / Dr Paul Booton |
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10.20 |
Keynote 1 – Dr Fiona Godlee, Editor-in-Chief of the BMJ |
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10:50–11:20 |
Questions |
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11:30 |
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12:45 |
Lunch |
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13:45 |
Debate – Dr Roger Kneebone and Dr Paul Booton ‘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... |
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15:00 |
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16.15 |
Tea and coffee |
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16:45 |
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18:00 |
Free time / HoDs meeting in the Stuart Room |
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19:00 |
Dinner |
Day 2: Friday 4 February
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8:00–9:00 |
Breakfast and check out |
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9:00 |
Keynote 2 – Professor Jan De Maeseneer 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? |
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9:30–9:50 |
Questions |
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10:00 |
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11:15 |
Coffee |
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11:30 |
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12:45 |
Closing, prizes, Madingley 2012 |
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13:00 |
Lunch |



