Feature Stories

October, 2019

Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, WONCA Executive Member-at Large and WHO Liaison person was the WONCA Delegate to the UN High Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage. September 23, 2019. Now we have a political declaration signed by all member countries of the UN. WONCA invites member organisations to review the declaration

September, 2019

​Amanda Howe, WONCA Immediate Past President, comes to the end of six years on WONCA Executive this coming month. WONCA thanks her for the huge voluntary commitment this represents. Here she reflects on this period of her life.

September, 2019

Dr Sonia Tsukagoshi, the new Vasco da Gama Movement (VdGM) Liaison Officer on WONCA Europe Executive Board , the British-Japanese family medicine physician, was interviewed recently by Pere Vilanova of semFYC.

September, 2019

Donald Li, WONCA President, was recently interviewed by semFYC communications Pere Vilanova. The interview is an edited version of the original Spanish.

August, 2019

A WONCA research team, led by Working Party on Research Chair, Felicity Goodyear-Smith, won two of the grants and therefor conducted two of the studies (on organisation and on financing of primary care). Other members of the research team include WONCA past presidents Amanda Howe, Chris van Weel and Michael Kidd.

July, 2019

During the recent WONCA Europe conference in Bratislava, the WONCA editor travelled outside the city to the nearby town of Pezinok on a visit to the practice of Dr Adriana Šimková. It was a multinational group with the editor being accompanied by colleagues Olgun Göktaş from Turkey and Hagit Dascal-Weichhendler from Israel.

July, 2019

When Anna Stavdal stood for election as WONCA President-elect, in Seoul, she focused on the importance of adapting the core values of family medicine to current trends. Here she reflects on this issue, overmedicalisation and a recent BMJ article.

July, 2019

Klaus B von Pressentin reports on his attendance as the Montegut Scholar, at the WONCA Africa 2019 conference, in Kampala, Uganda, from June 4-8, 2019. Klaus is from Mossel Bay sub-district, South Africa. The Montegut Global Scholars Program is funded by the American Board of Family Medicine Foundation (ABFM-F).

June, 2019

As is now the custom, World Family Doctor Day was celebrated widely in many countries across the globe. Of particular note this year was the launch of two books which are featured in this report - both show what our specialty of family medicine is about - but from totally different perspectives. Other member organisation reports formally submitted by May 31 are included in the attached document.

April, 2019

​ Jessie Mbamba, family medicine registrar from Malawi, received a Montegut global scholarship to attend the WONCA World conference, in Seoul, in 2018. The Montegut Global Scholars Program (MGSP) was established by the American Board of Family Medicine Foundation (ABFM-F) in 2010. The MGSP was established to foster international education, research and collaboration, in the specialty of family medicine.