Feature Stories

January, 2018

Dr Sanam Shah of Pakistan was awarded the Montegut Scholarship for the South Asia region. She is the national secretary, Pakistan for the WONCA Spice Route Young Doctors’ Movement and attended the recent South Asia region conference in Nepal.

January, 2018

Dr Mya Win Hnit, of Myanmar, was selected as a Montegut scholarship winner to attend 2017 WONCA Asia Pacific Regional Conference, which was recently held on November 1‐4 in Pattaya, Thailand. He reports on his activities and proposed actions.

December, 2017

As a new initiative, WONCA's Young Doctors' representative on World Executive, Ana Nunes Barata (Portugal), is coordinating regular news from our seven region Young Doctors' Movements. Not every region's movement will always provide news but each two months we hope to bring you news from some of the regions.

November, 2017

Kim Yu MD from the USA, is one amazing colleague. In just one week after the recent hurricane devastated Puerto Rico, Kim took to Facebook and drove a fundraising effort to help her collegues in Puerto Rico, raising over $62,000 from all the chapters of the American Academy of Family Physicians in just over one week,

October, 2017

Professor Michael Kidd AM (left), WONCA Immediate Past President and Professor Gabriel Ivbijaro MBE (right), a former chair of the WONCA Working Party on Mental Health have been awarded honorary membership of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA).

September, 2017

Congratulations to our President-Elect, Dr Donald Li, who has been awarded the Silver Magnolia Award by the City of Shanghai, in recognition of his work in promoting and enhancing general practice in the city.

July, 2017

At the recent WONCA Europe conference in Prague, WONCA President, Professor Amanda Howe, signed a Memorandum of Understanding jointly with Dr Jaime Correia de Sousa, President of the International Primary Care Respiratory Group.

July, 2017

Just before the opening ceremony of the WONCA Europe conference in Prague, the WONCA editor, Dr Karen Flegg, joined a group of four colleagues from Italy and one from the UK on a practice visit.

July, 2017

Prof Mehmet Ungan, WONCA Europe President Elect, of Turkey, writes to colleagues asking them to consider signing the #withrefugees petition as June 20, was World Refugee Day.

June, 2017

​World Family Doctor Day grows and grows in popularity. The theme of depression was taken up with enthusiasm. See reports , videos photos from around the globe here.