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SymPCa is an interdisciplinary European conference on Symptoms in Primary Care which is held every two years. It includes keynote lectures and presentations of current research in talk and poster form.
Physical symptoms represent the main reason for consultation for many of our patients in primary care. Symptoms occur at the borderline of health and illness (when bodily sensations become indicators of possible disease). They test practitioners' clinical skills and require judgements about whether to investigate the patient or to reassure. Symptoms occur within personal and societal contexts, both as new symptoms which may or may not represent disease and as persistent symptoms which last beyond, or in disproportion to, any disease processes.
SymPCa brings together researchers and reflective practitioners from clinical and social sciences to learn about and discuss emerging thinking about symptoms and their management.
SymPCa 2019 will be the third SymPCa conference, following SymPCa 2017 in Holland and SymPCa 2015 in Denmark.