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Wonca recently launched a new category of membership called “Wonca Academic Membership” during the Wonca Asia Pacific Regional Conference in Melbourne in October 2008.
Wonca currently has 43 Academic Members from various countries with some countries having multiple Academic Members.
For a listing of all current Academic Members, click here.
Wonca President’s Message
Dear Colleague,
On behalf of the World Organization of Family Doctors, I cordially invite your department to join Wonca in the new membership category of ‘Academic Membership’. This membership is for mutual advantage: it will help your staff members to engage in international primary care collaboration through participation in Wonca conferences, Working Parties, Special Interest Groups and other activities. It will enable Wonca to build upon your important work in research, teaching and training. Together, it will be possible to better advocate the important message of primary care leadership in health care systems around the world.
Wonca’s mission is to care for people: ‘every family a family doctor’. But this will only have an impact when there is an academic outreach to every family doctor – to study health problems, create new practice, teach and educate. This requires the ability to attract the best future doctors to primary care. To achieve this, every medical student should be exposed to primary care as early as possible in their studies, and for as long as possible.
The work of your university department of family medicine, primary care, community care, your residency training program therefore matters very much to Wonca and this membership offers a splendid opportunity to strengthen our ties.
I am thrilled about your joining Wonca as an Academic Member, and I look forward very much to welcoming you and your staff members to Wonca activities.
Professor Richard Roberts
President of Wonca
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Benfits of Academic Membership
1. Three complementary copies of the bi-monthly Wonca Newsletter to help you keep in touch with the world of Family Medicine.
2. Special discounts on all Wonca publications and products for sale.
3. Free Journal Alerts service 3 times a week.
4. Provide opportunities for networking with other Academic Members globally – this will be especially useful for new emerging departments in developing countries who may “twin” with other Academic Members from more developed countries as part of this Wonca initiative.
5. Academic Members can use the Wonca international network to market their activities and educational programs.
6. Wonca will provide Academic Members with an international and regional forum for faculty development and faculty exchange as they network with the other Academic Members within Wonca.
Eligibility Criteria
Academic Departments / Training Programs of general practice/family medicine which are actively involved in teaching and research,
support the Mission of Wonca and desire affiliation with Wonca.
Click here to download the document and become an Academic Member - MS Word format
Click here to download the document and become an Academic Member - Adobe PDF format
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