Ubi Scientia in the midst of the cosy cardigans of Caritas

摘要

Checkland’s letter raises important concerns about barriers to engagement between academic and ‘applied’ primary care settings.1 Academic primary care is a distinct scientific discipline working within, and alongside, primary care to support and challenge practice through scholarly activity. Issues related to scientific rigour and trustworthiness of scholarly activity, along with the evaluative validity/utility and coherence of ideas are of importance in both the academic and applied settings. Identifying how best to integrate these two perspectives highlights a key challenge to engagement; in thinking about how we communicate ideas about, and the results of, academic practice and scholarly activity. These are issues that the Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) is actively debating and addressing and are reflected in our revised position statement.2