Academic General Practice Ireland - Annual Scientific Meeting in Belfast 7th-8th March 2025
The GP team at Queen’s University Belfast are delighted to invite colleagues from across Ireland to come to Belfast on 7th-8th March 2025 for the Annual Scientific Meeting of Academic General Practice Ireland / Irish College of General Practitioners.
The theme for our meeting is “Renewing Vision”
Watch our video here.
Please view our event page here.
Abstract submission now open submit here; submissions will close on 13th December 2024.
Information on registering and options for hotels will be shared soon.
2024 AUDGPI Early Career Webinar
Thursday 10th October 19:30 – 21:00 on Zoom
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 19:30 | Welcome & Introduction | Dr Dónal Wallace, AUDGPI Early Career Rep, Assistant Professor in General Practice TCD & Dr Caroline Mc Carthy, AUDGPI Early Career Rep, Clinical Lecturer and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at RCSI. |
| 19:40 | ICGP/HSE Post CSCST Fellowship | Dr Thomas Cronin, GP and ICGP/HSE Post CSCST Fellow |
| 19:55 | MD Pathway | Dr Nóirín Fitzgerald, GP and Lecturer in General Practice University of Galway |
| 20:10 | ICGP/HSE Post CSCST Fellowship | Dr Patrick Moynagh, Clinical Lecturer RCSI and GP Fellow in Primary Care Therapeutics |
| 20:25 | PhD Pathway | Dr Rita McMorrow, GP and Lecturer in General Practice UCC |
| 20:40 | Concluding remarks and poll for ASM workshop content | |
| 21:00 | Close of meeting | |
2024 AUDGPI ICGP Joint ASM Prize Winners
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Prize Winner |
Title |
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Best Poster Award Joseph O’Shea, Trinity College Dublin |
Collaborative medicines optimisation service involving a general practice pharmacist (COMPASS) in Irish primary care: a SEIPS-based interview study. |
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Professor Bill Shannon award for Best General Practice Trainee Presentation Rebecca Orr, Queens University Belfast |
Identifying factors influencing health behaviours in farmers in United Kingdom and Ireland: a mixed methods study using the Capability- Opportunity- Motivation Behaviour (COM-B) model. |
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Professor George Irwin Award for Best Education Presentation Paula Greally, University of Limerick and Trinity College Dublin |
Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships in General Practice (LICs): Graduates’ perceptions of their influence on the journey from Medical Student to Doctor. |
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Professor James McCormick Award for Best Research Presentation Bridget Kiely, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland |
Link workers for people living with multimorbidity attending general practices in deprived urban communities. An exploratory randomised trial investigating feasibility, potential impact and cost effectiveness. |
2024 AUDGPI ICGP Joint ASM
The University of Limerick School of Medicine organising team with their collaborators, the Mid-West GP Training Scheme and the Irish College of General Practitioners, are delighted to announce the hosting of the AUDGPI ICGP Joint Annual Scientific Conference for 2024. This conference will be held in person in the University of Limerick beautiful parkland Campus on the 8th and 9th of March 2024.
The Association of University Departments of General Practice in Ireland (AUDGPI) is a national organisation representing academics and clinicians in Primary Care in Ireland. This was established in 1997 to promote excellence in academic general practice and supported by the seven academic departments of general practice in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
AUDGPI aims to support the development of teaching and research within Irish academic general practice and primary care for the benefit of patients, practitioners, educators and researchers in Ireland. This conference gives a platform where the best Irish and International General Practice and Primary Healthcare research can be presented and debated.
We believe passionately that by people coming together and working together and sharing ideas, we can help improve the health of all communities who are ‘living at the edge’. In one way all communities are living at the edge-as access to treatment, cost of treatment, and healthcare staff recruitment and retention, continue to be barriers to optimal healthcare for communities internationally. Some communities are at the geographical edge, others at the financial edge, more at the edge because of stigma and social exclusion, and all of us are at the edge of sustainability, where we are now questioning our relationship with the planet and the natural world.
The main objective of this conference is to:
- Create a safe space for the presentation of scientific work in the field of general practice, primary care, public health, and wider social and
- Allow opportunities for the creation of collaborative links between academics and healthcare and social care practitioners.
Keynote Speakers
General Practitioner; Chair of the European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC); member of the Dutch health Council, the quality council of the Dutch National Healthcare Institute and the scientific committee of the WHO Healthy cities programme.
Prof. Dr. Maria van den Muijsenbergh was a general practitioner for 40 years and professor in Health disparities and person centred integrated primary care at the department of Primary and Community care at Radboud University Medical Centre Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She is also the chair of the European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC). As such she is involved in interprofessional research, teaching and policy activities that focus on strengthening primary care and on the possible contribution of Primary Care in reducing existing socio-economic and ethnic health disparities, so how primary care best can be tailored to the needs of socially vulnerable patients, like migrants or persons with limited health literacy. To achieve equity, a strong person centred, population oriented integrated affordable primary care is required, involving interprofessional collaboration between healthcare, social care, public health and civil society.
She is member of several health policy organisations as the Dutch health Council and the quality council of the Dutch National healthcare Institute and the scientific committee of the WHO Healthy cities programme.
Naturalist and wildlife documentary presenter will speak about ‘The Natural World – Healing the Disconnect’
Naturalist Eoin Warner is a wildlife documentary presenter in both the Irish and English languages and has presented some of Ireland’s foremost nature documentaries in recent years. In 2017 he was awarded two national media prizes for his work on “Éire Fhiáin”. He has co-presented on the English language documentary “A wild Irish Year” and recently completed an internationally broadcast three-hour series titled “Ireland’s Wild Islands”. Eoin is currently working on a natural history documentary on the Burren.
Eoin grew up by the Atlantic Ocean outside Bantry in West Cork and now lives in Galway. He is an avid free-diver and loves nothing more than to be in, on or under the sea. Eoin has travelled extensively to explore our wildest places from Botswana to Antarctica and has a keen sense of our ecological responsibilities.
School of Applied Psychology, UCC, will speak about ‘Social Inclusion in Service, Research and Teaching’
Dr Sharon Lambert is a senior lecturer who joined the teaching staff in the School of Applied Psychology UCC following a number of years working within community based settings that provided supports to socially excluded groups. Sharon’s research interests revolve primarily around the impact of psychological trauma on development, its link with homelessness, substance dependence and mental health, and consequent considerations for service design and delivery. Sharon has particular academic and applied expertise with trauma aware, trauma sensitive and trauma informed service design projects. Sharon regularly provides guidance to national and international organisations on designing and delivering trauma aware services, policies and practices.
Full Programme to follow.
Registration is now open in the Eventbrite page:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/audgpi-icgp-annual-scientific-meeting-2024…
Accommodation options:
Kilmurry Lodge Hotel(conference dinner venue)
https://www.kilmurrylodge.com/
March 8, 2024 Bed & Breakfast (Per Room) rates: Single Occupancy €165.00; Double Occupancy €179.00; Twin Occupancy €189.00.
Guests can book and pay directly using the promo code: AUDGPI24 or via this link
https://secure.kilmurrylodge.com/convert/site/Kilmurry%20Lodge/en/rate/8026799.html
Castletroy Park Hotel
https://www.castletroypark.ie/
March 7 and 8, 2024 bed & breakfast rate €114.
Guests can book the rooms directly at [email protected] or phone 061 33 55 66 (option 1 – Bedroom Reservations) preferably between 8.30am and 5.30pm and give the reference number 507220 to get the discount rate at €114 bed & breakfast single occupancy.
Travelodge Castletroy
March 8, 2024 via booking.com rate €129 approximately room only.
Via website rate €162 room only https://travelodgelimerickcastletroy.com-ireland.com
Delish in Castletroy serves breakfast from 8am
Castle Oaks Hotel
March 8, 2024 bed & breakfast rate €139
Airbnb
General enquires send email: [email protected]
2024 AUDGPI ICGP Joint ASM
The University of Limerick School of Medicine organising team with their collaborators, the Mid-West GP Training Scheme and the Irish College of General Practitioners, are delighted to announce the hosting of the AUDGPI ICGP Joint Annual Scientific Conference for 2024. This conference will be held in person in the University of Limerick beautiful parkland Campus on the 8th and 9th of March 2024.
The Abstract submission call is now open! Please submit your abstract here: https://forms.office.com/e/PE1ACB8ZD7
For guidelines for Abstract submission follow this link.
Email address: [email protected]
2023 AUDGPI Early Career Webinar
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 20:00 | Welcome and introduction | Dr Caroline McCarthy, Early Career AUDGPI Rep, Clinical Lecturer and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at RCSI |
| 20:10 | MD by publication | Dr Donal Wallace, Early Career AUDGPI Rep, Assistant Professor in General Practice TCD |
| 20:25 | StAR MD programme | Dr Ahmeda Ali, Assistant Scheme Director (NE) and MD Scholar RCSI |
| 20:40 | ICGP/HSE GP Academic Clinical Fellowship | Dr Paul Ryan, ICGP Clinical Lead in Therapeutics and PhD Scholar |
| 20:55 | ICGP/HSE Post CSCST Fellowship | Dr Ben Jacobs, Clinical Lecturer in General Practice RCSI and SPHeRE PhD Scholar |
| 21:10 | Concluding remarks and poll for ASM workshop content | |
| 21:30 | Close of meeting | |
2023 AUDGPI ICGP Joint Conference Prize Winners
| Prize Winner | Title |
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Prof William ‘Bill’ Shannon Prize for Best Trainee presentation: Dr Stephanie McCarron Queens University Belfast |
In a delicate condition: A scoping review on the insights into promoting uptake of antenatal vaccination |
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Prof George Irwin Prize for Best Education presentation: Dr Carlotta Boselli University College Dublin |
Electrocardiograms, Education, General Practice |
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Prof James McCormick Prize for Best Research presentation: Dr Ann Sinéad Doherty University College Cork |
Cumulative incidence and severity of adverse drug reactions and associated patient characteristics in older community-dwelling adults attending general practice – a six year prospective cohort study |
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Prize for Best Poster presentation: Dr Ann Sinéad Doherty |
Prescribing cascades in community-dwelling adults: a systematic review |
PRESS RELEASE: The ICGP & AUDGPI call for urgent action on GP placements in Medical Schools.
Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP) and Association of University Departments of General Practice in Ireland (AUDGPI) call for urgent action on the funding and development of undergraduate General Practice placements to help address the ongoingGP workforce crisis.
The joint call for action seeks a more formal and structured collaboration between the ICGP Specialist Training Programme and the Medical Schools Departments of General Practice.
A new report, entitled “Medical Student to General Practitioner- an Urgent Call to Action” has been published today (Saturday March 4th) at the 2023 AUDGPI ICGP Joint Annual Scientific Meeting in the University of Galway.
Against the background of a growing GP workforce crisis, this report highlights the low visibility of General Practice at undergraduate level in the country’s Medical Schools, makes recommendations to promote General Practice as a positive career choice, and proposes a clinical academic training pathway in General Practice.
Mr. Fintan Foy, Chief Executive Officer of the ICGP, said: “The ICGP knows that not enough graduates of Irish medical schools select general practice as a career, which leaves our long-term workforce planning in a highly vulnerable position. This joint report with the AUDGPI sets out 14 recommendations to change that.”
Dr. Maureen Kelly, Lead Author & Associate Professor, School of Medicine, University of Galway, said: “We need to develop and implement a national funding model that supports the hosting and delivery of undergraduate general practice placements for medical students in all medical schools. The report is a forward-thinking and ambitious approach to GP education. It emphasises the importance of viewing GP education as a continuum.“
The Report was launched on the 2nd day of the AUDGPI ICGP Joint Annual Scientific Meeting in Galway. (https://www.audgpi.ie/eventsnews/)
You can read the report here.
ISSUED BY: Aileen O’Meara, Communications Consultant, Irish College of General Practitioners. Tel. 01 2542984 / 087 2239830.
2023 AUDGPI ICGP Joint Conference
The early bird rate for full registration has been extended and will be available here until the 10th of February.
2023 AUDGPI ICGP Joint Conference
The University of Galway organising team are delighted to open registration for 2023’s AUDGPI ICGP Joint Conference. This conference will be held in-person on the University of Galway Campus on the 3rd and 4th of March 2023.
Speakers will include:
- Professor Chris Butler, University of Oxford
- Dr Karen Matvienko-Sikar, University College Cork
- Dr Maureen Kelly, University of Galway & Mr Fintan Foy, ICGP
An early bird rate for full registration will be available here until the 10th of February, with reduced rates also available for GP trainees and for 1 day registrations (please indicate which day you will be attending while registering). A number of free student places will be made available, with details of how to apply to be shared with relevant institutions in the coming weeks.
Abstracts can be submitted here, with a closing date of the 9th of January 2023.
Programme
2022 AUDGPI ICGP Joint Conference
Theme: “The role of General Practice Research and Education in tackling health inequity”
The TCD oganising team are delighted to announce details for next year’s AUDGPI ICGP Joint Conference.
Dates: Friday 4th and Saturday 5th March 2022
Keynote speakers:
Dr David Blane, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow
Dr Sara Burke, Centre for Health Policy & Management, Trinity College Dublin
AUDGPI ICGP Prize Winners 2022
William Shannon Prize for Best Trainee presentation:
Dr Ciaran Cassidy, South East GP Training Scheme
Application of Stop frail deprescribing tool to nursing home residents across 5 GP practices In the South East of Ireland
George Irwin Prize for Best Education presentation
Prof Andrew Murphy, NUIG
Supporting medical students towards future careers in general practice: a quantitative study of Irish medical schools
James McCormick Prize for Best Research presentation
Dr Caroline McCarthy, RCSI
Process Evaluation of the SPPIRE trial: a GP delivered medication review of polypharmacy, deprescribing and patient priorities in older people with multimorbidity
Health Equity Prize
Dr Patrick O’Donnell, UL
The development of a social exclusion measurement tool for use in healthcare settings
Overall prize
Dr Caroline McCarthy, RCSI
Process Evaluation of the SPPIRE trial: a GP delivered medication review of polypharmacy, deprescribing and patient priorities in older people with multimorbidity
2021 Early Career Symposium
Theme: “Developing Primary Care Research Communities for a Post-Pandemic World”
Date: Friday 12th November 2021
Time: 09:15 – 15:30
The QUB oganising team are delighted to announce provisional details for this year’s AUDGPI Early Career Symposium.
Keynotes:
- Emma Wallace (Associate Professor of GP Royal College of Surgeons Ireland)
- Phil Evans (https://www.nihr.ac.uk/people/evans-philip/11962 NIHR National Specialty Lead for Primary Care both inside and outside of general practice, author of the 2021 NIHR Primary Care research strategy, chair of the strategy implementation programme board and lead for the recent Principle Study, one of the urgent public health Covid studies that was conducted in Primary Care on an adaptive trial platform design)
- Sam Meriel (https://medicine.exeter.ac.uk/people/profile/index.php?web_id=Sam_Merriel) and Polly Duncan (https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/polly-r-duncan) instigators of PACT (Primary Care Academic Collaborative) (https://www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/news/blog/pact-research-collaborative-announces-winning-grassroots-project-idea-in-rcgp-dragons2019-den) a trainee-driven initiative for research in Primary Care
2021 AUDGPI and ICGP Annual Joint Scientific Meeting (Virtual)
Friday 12 March & Saturday 13th March (9am to 1pm)
Registration is free to AUDGPI members and affiliate institutions; however
You must register in advance in order to receive the
Zoom links, the Programme & Book of Abstracts and Certificates of Attendance.
We look forward to welcoming you to the conference.
2020 AUDGPI annual Early & Mid Careers Day
The HRB Primary Care Clinical Trials Network are pleased to announce details for the Association of University Departments of General Practice in Ireland (AUDGPI) annual Early & Mid Careers Day, to be held virtually via Zoom on Friday 20 November from 09:30-13:15. This is of interest to all those GP’s, GP trainees, health care professionals and social scientists currently involved, or with an early interest, in academic general practice and primary care. Irish GPs, health care professionals and social scientists at early and mid-career stages will outline their career pathways and what they have learnt along the way.
There will be parallel session on opportunities for research funding and opportunities for training in teaching and assessment. This will be then followed by a focus on international academic training opportunities. Parallel sessions on patient involvement in research and education will also be delivered.
The meeting is always an excellent networking opportunity and this will again be supported by a closed meeting to finish.
Registration is now open, please click this link to register for free.
Places are limited.
Supporting medical students towards careers in general practice 2020
A meeting supported by the Association of University Departments of General
Practice Ireland and the Irish College of General Practitioners
Date: Friday September 25th 2020
Venue: Zoom
Time: 1200-1330hrs
Chair: Prof Susan Smith, RCSI, Chair AUDGPI
1200 Prof Val Waas OBE, Keele University
‘By choice, not by chance’ : an update of the impact of a national English initiative to increase
numbers of students following careers in general practice
1215 Discussion
1225 Ryan Fagan, Medical Student, Chair University of Limerick GP Society: Perspectives of Irish
medical students
1235 Prof Andrew W Murphy, NUI Galway, Vice Chair AUDGPI: Perspectives of Irish university
departments
1245 Prof Frank Murray, Director National Doctors Training & Planning, HSE: Perspectives of the
NDTP
Chair: Mr Fintan Foy, CEO, ICGP
1255 Round table discussion with speakers and representatives of the Irish Medical Council, Irish
Medical Organisation and Irish Medical Schools Council
1320 Next steps
1330 Finish
Association of Departments of General Practice Irish College of General Practitioners Joint Scientific Meeting 2020
The Association of Departments of General Practice Irish College of General Practitioners Joint Scientific Meeting 2020 will be held in Western Gateway Building, University College Cork on the 5th and 6th of March 2020.
This is an annual scientific meeting for members of the Association of Departments of General Practice in Ireland and members of the Irish College of General Practitioners as well as students of universities on the island of Ireland working with departments of general practice and trainees on general practice training scheme on the island of Ireland.
2019 AUDGPI and ICGP Annual Scientific Meeting | RCSI
The 2019 Joint Annual Scientific Meeting of the AUDGPI and ICGP will be held in Dublin on Thursday, 28th February and Friday, 1st March 2019. The event is hosted by the HRB Centre for Primary Care Research and Department of General Practice in the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland.
An exciting conference awaits, showcasing the best of Irish primary care and general practice research and education, with oral presentations, workshops and moderated poster sessions.
We are delighted to have three excellent plenary speakers including:
- Dr Rita Doyle; General Practitioner and President of the Irish Medical Council
- Professor Richard Hobbs; Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, NIHR English School for Primary Care Research
- Dr Margaret McCartney; General Practitioner and Columnist BMJ
The conference venue is the Main Building of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland.
All information about the conference can be found on the HRB Centre for Primary Care website.
Evidence in Primary Care
Institute for Lifecourse and Society (ILAS), NUI Galway, 8th & 9th March 2018
Keynote speakers:
- Keynote 1: Liam Glynn, Prof. of General Practice, University of Limerick and rural GP
The value of every human contact – Clinical care in the community as a privilege, a challenge and an opportunity - Keynote 2: Val Wass, OBE, Emeritus Prof. of Medical Education, Keele University
By choice not by chance Bridging the Divide - Keynote 3 (in collaboration with the HRB Primary Care Clinical Trials Network Ireland): Sandra Eldridge, Prof. of biostatistics, Barts & the London Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and director of the pragmatic clinical trials unit.
Cluster randomised trials in primary care: Where have we come from and where are we going