WONCA News

July, 2015

Prof Antoinette Perera, President of the College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka is interviewed by the WONCA Editor about her hopes for the conference. Antoinette is also a WONCA Featured doctor this month.

July, 2015

This month Chloé Perdrix, the young French GP travelling through South Asia write on her travels in India and Kyrgystan

July, 2015

WONCA News has begun a regular feature on the subject of Occupational Health. Peter Buijs & Frank van Dijk are the promotors and main authors. IIn this edition, they tell about two good practices, where PHC is paying more attention to work issues, coming from two newly industrialized countries: China and Thailand.

July, 2015

I am a middle aged Italian family doctor who lives and works in a rural village in Southern Italy. I work in a solo doctor practice and my surgery is in a wing of my own house. This is quite unusual and considered barely legal nowadays, but is tolerated as I started my practice long ago.

July, 2015

El objetivo es determinar los factores que influyen en la decisión de prescribir antibióticos en pacientes con sospecha de infección del tracto respiratorio en Suramérica.

July, 2015

The aim of Happy Audit ll is to determine the factors associated with prescription of antibiotics in patients with suspected respiratory tract infection I South-America. This is the second report on progress.

July, 2015

The Bangladesh Institute of Family Medicine & Research [BIFMR] is an Institute of the University of Science & Technology Chittagong [USTC]. BIFMR has been an ‘Academic Member of WONCA’ from the beginning of that membership category. Recently its Family Medicine Diploma exams were held.

July, 2015

ICPRG (International Primary Care Research Group) has advised us of an EU-funded project to create a new action plan to outline research priorities in the field of asthma. Complete the survey to share your thoughts:

July, 2015

We are counting down to the XXth World Congress of The World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) which is being held at the Intercontinental Citystars, Cairo Egypt from 16th-19th October

July, 2015

Dr Hernan Montenegro, WONCA’s WHO Designated Technical Officer, has advised us of a newly advertised post for a Technical Officer within the Services Organization and Clinical Interventions Unit (SCI) in the Service Delivery and Safety (SDS) Department of WHO.