EGPRN: EUROPEAN GENERAL PRACTICE RESEARCH NETWORK

WONCA EUROPE 2012 CONFERENCE

At the eighteenth Wonca Europe Conference in Vienna Austria, held on 4–7 July 2012, the European General Practice Research Network (EGPRN) contributed actively. We briefly describe our activities here.

Presentations

J. Y. Le Reste et al., gave an oral presentation on the ‘Academic definition of multimorbidity a systematic review of literature.’ P. Nabbe et al., presented the FDPM Study (Depression and multimorbidity in family medicine): ‘Systematic review of the literature: what validated tools are used for depression diagnosis and screening in general practice?’

Workshops

A workshop on ‘Using the Arts in Medical Education. How, Why, and does it work? EGPRN Workshop’ was lead by Elaine Powley. The highly interactive workshop ‘Writing for publication: a joint VdGM/EJGP/EGPRN workshop’ was moderated by J. Stoffers, T. Freund, and C. Lygidakis.

Symposia

The symposium ‘European translational research on the management of respiratory tract infections in primary care: implications for clinical practice and research’ was organized and led by S. Coenen, T. Verheij, C. Butler, S. de Vries-van Vugt, L. Broekhuizen, M. Godycki-Cwirko, H. Goossens and Eva Hummers Pradier.

The symposium ‘The International Classification of Primary Care—(ICPC) and the how's and why's of classification systems in family medicine’ was organized and conducted by J. K. Soler, I. Kunnamo, F. Petrazzuoli, N. Buono, and M. Jamoulle.

The symposium ‘TRANSFoRm: improving patient safety in primary care’ was organized and led by B. Delaney, J. K. Soler, D. Corrigan, T. N. Arvanitis, V. Curcin, R. A. Verheij, S. Visscher, and A. Taweel.

Other activities

An EGPRN and EURIPA (European Rural and Isolated Practitioners Association) delegation met at the conference and discussed the option of a joint meeting soon. The EGPRN Conference booth manned by Mrs Hanny Prick received much attention. Many participants were pleasantly surprised by the EGPRN features: low membership fee with the added value of free on line access to the European Journal of General Practice, highly interactive conferences with a manageable number of participants, and a low conference fee.

EGPRN SPRING MEETING 2013

The EGPRN Spring Meeting 2013 will be held from 16–19 May 2013 in Kusadasi, Turkey.

The theme is ‘Risky behaviours and health outcomes in primary care and general practice.’ Obviously, free-standing papers are welcome too. Deadline for abstract submission is 15 January 2013 (http://www.egprn.org).