Scottish Society of Physicians 65th Annual Meeting 2024

We are delighted to inform you that the next SSP event will be taking place on Thursday 26 & Friday 27 September 2024. This year's event will be held at the Park Hotel, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. The 2024 event will be organised by Dr Margaret Duncan and the final programme and registrations for the event will be released in due course. Save the date in your diary!

Previous delegates have said about SSP events and what they enjoyed about it:

  • "A really fantastic range of talks and some extremely high quality speakers"
  • "The friendly nature of the event. Will recommend to all junior colleagues as a friendly conference to submit their work too."
  • "Good variety of topics applicable to general medical audience"
  • "Range of interesting presentations. Small, friendly event - easy to network. Good to meet people from a range of specialities."

Call for Abstracts:

Abstracts are invited for this meeting for poster or podium presentations. SSP welcomes work on any clinical, scientific or service topic from the breadth of general medicine and its subspecialties, as well as on topics such as patient safety, quality improvement and clinical audit. Abstracts will be scored and the top 4 will be selected for oral presentation.

We are also accepting submissions for 'Cases that have changed my practice' 

The deadline for all submissions is Friday 31 May 2024.

Abstract authors will be notified in June if they are successful. For submission please use the abstract templates for either a scientific abstract or case presentation and return it to ssp.admin@rcpe.ac.uk.

The best podium presenter for the scientific abstract will be awarded the prestigious Fitzgerald Peel Prize. There are also prizes available for the best clinical case, quick fire presentation, poster and student poster. Presenters of abstracts selected for oral presentation will be eligible for a travel grant to support presentation of the work at national or international meetings: more information.