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InnovAiT 2008 1(11):720-721; doi:10.1093/innovait/inn155
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the RCGP. All rights reserved. For permissions please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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Dr Rodger C Charlton

General Practitioner and Associate Clinical Professor Warwick Medical School and Honorary Editor, RCGP Publications

E-mail: rodger.charlton@warwick.ac.uk

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   RCGP Annual Primary Care Conference
 
2–4 October, 2008, Bournemouth International Centre.

This section reports from the second successful annual conference of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) which I attended. There were approximately 1000 delegates and this conference followed the successful inaugural conference last year in Edinburgh. Many AiTs were present and it was great to see them.


   New members ceremony—‘generalists not partialists’
 
The conference really started on the evening of 1 October with the new members ceremony, 45 of whom had come through the nMRCGP route. The ceremonies for new members started 18 months ago and the RCGP President, Professor David Haslam, emphasized the enormity of the exam and that it is a considerable achievement. He reminded the audience of new members and their families present that the College ‘is not a trade union and it is not an ivory tower’. He described that it is a ‘College for real GPs, that it is a public voice for . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Welcome to the Conference—David Haslam
 

   The John Hunt Lecture—an international perspective
 

   The medical generalist—an outmoded concept?
 

   Bionic learning
 

   What is the College up to? Making a difference.
 

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