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25/02/2004
GPs converge on Belfast for all-Ireland scientific meeting
GPs and academics from all over Ireland are to gather at Queen's University on Friday for their annual scientific meeting.
Hosted by the University's Department of General Practice, around 70 delegates will attend the 7th meeting of the Association of University Departments of General Practice.
Members include academics from the departments of general practice at Trinity College, Dublin, RCSI Dublin, University College Dublin, Galway and Cork as well as colleagues at the University of Ulster.
This will be the first time that the Association has met in Belfast.
Among the topics to be discussed will be men's health, the uptake rate of the 'flu vaccine and the impact of mobile text messages on new patient medicals. There will also be discussions on research and health promotion issues such as walking to health, what prevents elderly patients claiming their full entitlement of benefits and how patients with first episode schizophrenia are dealt with in general practice.
Poster presentations will examine issues such as violence in general practices, teenage pregnancy, diabetes and the study of language as a barrier to primary care services for refugees and asylum seekers.
(MB)
Hosted by the University's Department of General Practice, around 70 delegates will attend the 7th meeting of the Association of University Departments of General Practice.
Members include academics from the departments of general practice at Trinity College, Dublin, RCSI Dublin, University College Dublin, Galway and Cork as well as colleagues at the University of Ulster.
This will be the first time that the Association has met in Belfast.
Among the topics to be discussed will be men's health, the uptake rate of the 'flu vaccine and the impact of mobile text messages on new patient medicals. There will also be discussions on research and health promotion issues such as walking to health, what prevents elderly patients claiming their full entitlement of benefits and how patients with first episode schizophrenia are dealt with in general practice.
Poster presentations will examine issues such as violence in general practices, teenage pregnancy, diabetes and the study of language as a barrier to primary care services for refugees and asylum seekers.
(MB)
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