WONCA News

August, 2020

Guidelines.co.uk, is offering our members discounted access to over 300 clinical guideline summaries online

August, 2020

Prof Val Wass, Chair WONCA Working Party on Education writes on the latest open access items in Education for Primary Care.

August, 2020

Dr John Wynn-Jones writes on Courage. During this dreadful pandemic there have been many acts of courage and fortitude shown by health care workers. Despite the personal risks, many of you have continued to practice, often without adequate PPE, knowing that you and sometimes your loved ones are at risk.

August, 2020

Please join us for the Virtual AfroPHC Workshop to be held 4-7pm over three days 9th-11th September 2020. The theme is “Building Teamwork for PHC in Africa”. It is intended to be a truly interactive African experience that is free and open to anyone interested in building PHC in Africa. Please see more details and register for the AfroPHC Virtual Workshop.

August, 2020

The Besrour Centre for Global Family Medicine (Centre) at the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) invites you to participate at the Virtual 2020 Family Medicine Forum taking place Wednesday, November 4 to Saturday, November 7, 2020.

August, 2020

The following is a short version of this report to be published in the 2020 WONCA Annual report. WHO liaison person, Viviana Martinez-Bianchi writes:

July, 2020

By the time you read this column most of you will know that we have had to take the decision to postpone our World Council and conference planned for Abu Dhabi in November, to be hosted by the Emirates Medical Association. It was really heartening and very important for us to receive speedy feedback from the Member Organisations that they were happy to postpone this year’s planned World Council and conference until 2021.

July, 2020

Dr John Wynn-Jones, Immediate Past Chair WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice has been writing a regular “rural miscellany” email since March, to provide resources on COVID-19 but also to give us a touch of poetry as a diversion in these difficult times. His body of work is now available on one website for your enjoyment.

July, 2020

The main news this month concerns confirmation of the postponement of our World Council and conference in Abu Dhabi - the new dates will be 21st to 23rd November 2021 for Council meetings and 25th to 28th November 2021 for the World conference.

July, 2020

相信当各位阅读此专栏时，大多已得悉我们已决定推迟由阿联酋医学会在11月于阿布扎比主办的世界理事会和世界会议。