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      WONCA is an unusual, yet convenient acronym comprising the first five initials of the World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians.

      WONCA's short name is World Organization of Family Doctors.

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      07 Jun-10 Jun, 2023

      28th WONCA Europe Conference 2023

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      • Dr Shigeaki HINOHARA : 1911-2017
        Japan's most eminent physician
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        President of WONCA 1983-86
      • Roger Rosenblatt M.D., M.P.H., M.F.R. 1945-2014
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      The Barbara Starfield Collection

      Professor Barbara Starfield championed the value and need of strong primary health care systems worldwide. This collection emphasizes the case for primary care and includes a number of Barbara Starfield's own articles as well as other key related material.

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Editor's pick: WONCA memorabilia

December 2020 Feature Stories

December, 2020

Editor's pick photos are part of my reflection on a decade as WONCA Editor. It’s impossible to encapsulate everything WONCA is about in 20 photos. While this is certainly not a comprehensive selection of photos on what WONCA is about, all tell a story of the WONCA family.

Karen Flegg. WONCA Editor

Back to Editor's farewell - December 2020

Other photo collections

Editor's pick: favourite photos
Editor's pick: Garth Manning as CEO
Editor's pick: photos of individuals
Editor's pick: photos of groups

 

You And Me - We Are Family. A great catchphrase for Wonca in a performance led by Asia-Pacific region president, Meng-Chih Lee at the regional conference in Taiwan in 2015 The East Mediterranean region conference was held in Dubai in 2015 - wonderful acknowledgement with attendees invited to join the VIPs on stage. WONCA in Cancun, Mexico was now over 10 years ago, however the music at the conference venue and at the Xcaret evening function lingers long in our memories. Conferences are important in WONCA - the future will bring more jubilation as at the WONCA world rural health conference in Cairns, Australia in 2017 WONCA World Council meetings are held in conjunction with WONCA World Conferences. Val Wass (UK and now WONCA treasurer)  speaks at the world Council meeting in Rio in 2016. WONCA regions hold their own council meetings. Here WONCA Europe meets in Istanbul in 2015 WONCA conferences have logos but who can forget the Kraków Dragon? WONCA is about family doctors: here I visit colleagues, Dr Gobind Kalsi and Dr Kristian Müller at their modern practice in Vesterbro, Copenhagen, in 2016 WONCA is enables us to find out about family medicine in other regions of the world. Here three region presidents get together Sylvester Osinowo (Nigeria, WONCA Africa region), Preethi Wijegoonewardene (Sri Lanka, WONCA South Asia region), and Dan Oste WONCA News has provided a connection with family doctors around the world, from countries with family medicine at all stages of development. This photo was sent by colleagues in Ethiopia, in 2015. Colleagues in Myanmar sent this photo to WONCA News of their international seminar held in 2014 World Family Doctor day is celebrated on May 19 every year. One of the more unusual events that I’ve been informed of over the years, was a cake cutting at family practices in the Netherlands thanks to the Dutch College. 2012 WONCA presidents are well remembered and revered for the contributions they make in our organisation. Here, past presidents, Rich Roberts (USA), Chris Van Weel (The Netherlands) and Goran Sjonell (Sweden) are seen together in Rio in 2016 where Rich and Go The legends of primary care are often speakers at WONCA conferences. Here we see Alfred Loh, Rich Roberts as WONCA President, and Karen Kinder with Barbara Starfield (sitting) a keynote speaker, at the WONCA World Rural Health Conference, in Cebu in 2011 Meeting colleagues from other countries is a feature of WONCA conferences- colleagues from Brunei were in attendance at the WONCA Asia-Pacific conference held in Kuching Malaysia, in 2014 Bruce Chater and John Wynn-Jones, current and past chair respectively of the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice. United in purpose for rural family medicine, seen here in 2017. Innovation is a feature of WONCA conferences. Here Bruno Kissling, of Switzerland, photographs the installation of which he was one of the creators at the WONCA Europe conference in Prague, in 2017 Our most recent WONCA World conference was held in Seoul, South Korea in 2018. Many WONCA conferences include music in their opening and closing ceremonies. WONCA Europe Bratislava, Slovak Republic in 2019 was the editor’s last taste of such entertainment. Entertainment and fun in Gramado, Brazil at the WONCA World Rural Health conference in 2014. We look to the future when once again we will enjoy music, friendship and fun at WONCA conferences.
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