RGPAS Annual Conference #RGPAS24

RGPAS is a small, voluntary organisation managed by and for Remote and Rural GPs in Scotland. We proudly achieved charity status in January 2024. Each year, our main focus is to hold an annual conference which serves to bring together our unique community to share and foster our passion for rural medicine.

Come and relax in good company, meet the rural GPs of tomorrow and maybe your next locum... whilst gaining clinical updates and contributing to forging a way forward to support Scotland's ever skilful and innovative Rural GPs.

We encourage junior doctors interested in Rural General Practice to attend including GP Trainees.

We have scholarship opportunities for Medical Students to attend. See important details below. Closing date for students is September 13th.

Venue capacity at this event is limited to 120 maximum - including speakers, so get your tickets early to avoid disappointment!

It is a hybrid conference with the possibility to attend on-line for the main programme. So even if getting a locum is tricky, or the ferry doesn't run, you can still join in - (maybe even if you are the locum)!

The Conference runs over 3 days and starts on Friday 15th November in the afternoon and finishing on Sunday lunchtime. It includes the now famous 'mentoring ' where every delegate is placed in a group with a Rural GP, junior doctor/ trainee and medical student.

This year we are again offering a (Closing date September 13th).

Pre-reading

Conference Sessions

• Use of Ultrasound in Rural General Practice
• Obesity in Rural General Practice
• Humanitarian crisis with refugees in Calais
• Resilience and support - interactive session/workshop (inc.NHS Practitioner Health)
• The improving recruitment of GP Trainees
• Career stories from 3 Rural GPs
• Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS) - hands on major scenario
• Report on the National Centre for Rural and Remote Health and Care
• Poster display and presentations of each winning category

*subject to change

RGPAS AGM for members –

separate sessions during the AGM for:

• medical students - including election of RGPAS student representatives
• Rural Fellows
• GP Trainees and other junior doctors

Social –

• Friday night: informal curry at one of Inverness's best restaurants
• Saturday: conference dinner and ceilidh;
• Sunday: early morning sea swim;
• lunches, tea and coffees on Sat and Sun with plenty of opportunity for a blether and essential networking.

NEW FOR 2024! - a small exhibition space. This includes BASICS Scotland 'Bring your Sandpiper Bag for a check/restock' and 'Lucky to be Here'.

I MPORTANT NOTE FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS:

We are delighted to offer 20 places on a scholarship basis**. These are: 10 x Full conference WITH accommodation and 10 x full conference WITHOUT accommodation. Tickets will only be offered to those students who are awarded a scholarship.

is open to all however - an exceptional poster may contribute favourably towards your scholarship application.

Closing date for applications (including posters) is September 13th

**Ts & Cs: To obtain a scholarship place: You must be a medical student in Scotland to be eligible - select the student ticket option on eventbrite and fill out the form to complete a short questionnaire telling us why you wish to be considered. If you have been successful, we will contact you by email on or before October 1st to confirm your place. (It is essential to reply for your ticket to be activated). Successful scholarships will be requested to contribute £20 towards the cost of dinner and ceilidh.

ACCOMMODATION FOR PAYING DELEGATES. After a couple of years of being home to Ukranian Refugees, our long standing partner, is able to offer accommodation to delegates again.

To arrange your accommodation please contact the hotel directly, rooms are being held for the conference -just mention RGPAS24 to get the discounted room rate:

Overflow accommodation will also be available at their sister hotel across the river.

Host or Publisher Rural GPs Association of Scotland