WONCA News

June, 2012

Professor Michael Kidd, WONCA President Elect and chair of the Nominating and Awards Committee has made the call to WONCA Member Organizations to make nominations for the various WONCA awards to be presented at the world conference, being held in Prague, in 2013. The awards are: • WONCA Fellowship • WONCA Honorary Direct Life membership • WONCA Foundation Award and • WONCA 5 Star Doctor Award

June, 2012

WONCA Europe is proud to announce Dr Miguel Román, of Spain as the winner of the WONCA Europe Award of Excellence in Health Care: The 5-Star Doctor 2012.

June, 2012

WONCA Asia Pacific region council has announced the final list of bursary recipients who will have been aided to attend the region conference in Jeju, in May.

June, 2012

The International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG) 6th world conference, was held in Edinburgh, April 2012. The conference attracted over 1000 delegates from 40 countries.

June, 2012

A summary of WONCA's Working Party on Research activities in the past year.

June, 2012

The meeting, held May 7 and 8, brought together members of the CARMEN (Set of Actions for the Multisectoral Reduction of Non-communicable Diseases) network to discuss how to transform the declaration signed at last year's United Nations High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases into policies, programs, and concrete actions.

June, 2012

Expertos de la región acuerdan acciones ultisectoriales para combatir enfermedades no transmisibles

June, 2012

The workshop of the Giotto Movement was held in Bologna on April 21, 2012. During the first session, the Giotto Movement; WONCA and its Networks and Working Groups; the Vasco da Gama Movement and its history in Italy and in Europe were presented. Various ‘exchanges’ (The Hippocrates Exchange, RCGP/AiT, LOVAH/WES and SoMaMFyC) were also presented and participants shared their experiences.

June, 2012

The first issue of the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care (JFMPC) covering January - June 2012, Vol 1 Issue 1, is published. JFMPC is the official publication of the Academy of Family Physicians of India (AFPI). Dr Raman Kumar, president AFPI is also the chief editor of the JFMPC.

June, 2012

The College of Family Medicine in Pakistan, has arranged lectures by Dr David M Chaput De Saintonge and Dr Andrew Roger Charley from the UK Prime Organisation, for our trainee MRCGP (Int) South Asia participants. Prof Waris Qidwai and Dr Marie Andreadis of the Aga Khan University (AKU) arranged a program on the subject of Whole Person Medicine, which was highlighted by both the speakers and appreciated very much by the participants.