Scottish Society of Physicians 67th Annual Meeting

Thursday 18 - Friday 19 September

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Thu 18 - Fri 19 Sep | 2 Day Event

Thu 10:00 - Fri 14:00

Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow

Activity code: TBC

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Overview

We are delighted to inform you that the next SSP event will be taking place on Thursday 18 & Friday 19 September 2025. This year's event will be held at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. The 2025 event will be organised by Professor Jesse Dawson and the programme and registrations for the event will be released in due course.

Call for Abstracts - Scientific Presentations

Abstracts are invited for this meeting for poster or podium presentation. 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 7 will be selected for oral presentation.

The best presenter will be awarded the prestigious Fitzgerald Peel Prize. There are also prizes available for the best poster and best 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.

Call for submissions - Interactive Case Session

We are looking for submissions for our case based session. The case presentation will be presented by a trainee but also supported by a consultant in the relevant specialty who will help answer any questions from the audience. We are looking for a 10 minute case presentation, 15 minutes for discussion and 5 minutes for a summary and closing.

It is acceptable (with any permissions if relevant) to re-use case presentations that you may have done at grand rounds / meetings in your hospital in recent past. Cases can come from any medical specialty.

The deadline for all submissions is Wednesday 11 June 2025 and should be sent to ssp.admin@rcpe.ac.uk.

The forms to submit your abstract are found below:

SSP Case Submission Form

ssp25caseabstractsubmissionform_final.doc

SSP Scientific Abstract Form

ssp25abstractsubmissionform_final.doc

Scottish Society of Physicians (SSP) is grateful for support from the companies listed below through the purchase of exhibition stand space:

Daiichi Sankyo Ltd

Programme

Day 1 Thursday 18 September 2025

Session 1 - Case Presentations

10:00	Case 1 Speaker tbc
10:30	Case 2 Speaker tbc
11:00	Refreshment break & exhibition viewing
11:30	Case 3 Speaker tbc
12:00	Case 4 Speaker tbc
12:30	Lunch, poster & exhibition viewing
13:00	Scottish Society of Physicians Annual General Meeting (SSP members only)

Session 2 - Unintended consequences

13:30	Everything you wanted to know were afraid to ask about GLP-1s Dr Andrew Kernohan, Consultant in Diabetes & Endocrinology, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow
14:00	Adverse events related to use of immune-therapy Dr Yun Yi Tan, Consultant Medical Oncologist, Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, Glasgow
14:30	Incidental findings in radiology Speaker tbc
15:00	Refreshments, exhibition and poster viewing

Session 3 - The future of medicine in Scotland

15:30	Remote and rural medicine Dr Marion Slater, Deputy Postgraduate Dean of Medicine, NHS Scotland and Consultant Physician, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
16:00	Use of AI in Scottish Healthcare Dr Thom O'Neill, Medical Education Fellow, NHS Lothian
16:30	It's everyone’s business – management of obesity in modern medicine Dr Lyn Ferguson, Consultant & Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Metabolic Medicine, University of Glasgow
17:00	FITZGERALD PEEL LECTURE Introduced by Professor Jesse Dawson, President, Scottish Society of Physicians Making medicines safer – lessons from clinical trials and real world data Professor Isla Mackenzie, Associate Dean (Research), Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Honorary Consultant Physician, University of Dundee and Ninewells Hospital
17:30	Close
18:30	Drinks reception
19:00	SSP 67th Annual Meeting Dinner

Day 2 - Friday 19 September 2025

09:00

Registration, exhibition and poster viewing

Session 4 - Common sense medicine

09:30	Syncope - when to refer? Dr Lara Mitchell, Consultant Physician Older People’s services, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow
10:00	It's just a wee pause - pathology or physiology? Dr Hassan Abbas, Consultant Cardiologist, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee
10:30	Investigation of deranged liver function tests Speaker tbc
11:00	Refreshments & poster viewing

Session 5 - Scientific presentations

11:45	Topic tbc Speaker tbc
12:00	Topic tbc Speaker tbc
12:15	Topic tbc Speaker tbc
12:30	Topic tbc Speaker tbc
12:45	Topic tbc Speaker tbc
13:00	Topic tbc Speaker tbc
13:15	Topic tbc Speaker tbc

Session 6 - Award of Fitzgerald Peel and poster prizes

13:30	Award of Fitzgerald Peel and poster prizes
13:45	Lunch
14:30	Close of event

Further information

Certificates: All relevant events are approved for Continuing Professional Development (CPD). To receive a CPD certificate delegates must have completed the online feedback survey. The survey will close 28 days after the event on the Thursday 16 October, with certificates being issued shortly after this.

Certificates cannot be issued after the survey has closed.

Commercial Sponsorship: Many events are supported by commercial companies taking exhibition space. Health professionals and NHS Managers are invited to visit the company stands during the breaks. Companies interested in sponsoring this, or other events listed on our event pages should contact the event coordinator.

Exhibitors/Sponsors play no part in the planning or delivery of this event.

Event co-ordinator

Stephanie Hough

Telephone

0131 247 3687

ssp.admin@rcpe.ac.uk

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