Changing Conferences Debate

Changing times, changing opinions: history informing the family presence debate.

Significant debate currently exists within emergency medicine over whether a patient’s family should be allowed to observe a critical resuscitation in the emergency department (ED) (‘‘family presence’’). Proponents of this practice would like family members to have the choice to be present during these desperate efforts that are often the final moments of patients’ lives. However, many medical ...

DEBATE Ottawa to Bangkok: changing health promotion discourse

The discourse of the 2005 Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalized World represents a radical departure from that of the Ottawa Charter that, in 1986, staked a place for the health promotion field in mainstream public health. Via a critical analysis of the discourse in these two Charters, this paper illustrates a shift from a ‘new social movements’ discourse of ecosocial justice in ...

Education and debate: a manifesto for ethics and values at annual healthcare conferences

In this paper I discuss the ways in which the conference stream ethics and values manifested at the 2015 RCGP Annual Conference in Glasgow, and the ways in which it is planned for the 2016 RCGP Annual Conference in Harrogate. The 2015 RCGP had plenaries, oral presentations, breakout symposia, a debate, and a poster stream. I briefly discuss each in turn before offering a manifesto (a public sta...

Past Conferences

Past Conferences