Newsletter: February 2021

With the global pandemic still all around us, we were unable to hold our Council and conference in Abu Dhabi last year. Arrangements are well underway, in the hope that we can hold the conference in November this year.

Con la pandemia mundial todavía a nuestro alrededor, no pudimos celebrar nuestra Reunión del Consejo y Conferencia en Abu Dabi el año pasado. Los arreglos están muy avanzados, con la esperanza de que podamos celebrar la conferencia en noviembre de este año,

Avec la pandémie mondiale nous entourant encore, nous n'avons pas pu, l’année dernière, tenir notre Conseil et notre conférence à Abu Dhabi. Les préparatifs sont en bonne voie, dans l'espoir que nous puissions maintenir la conférence en Novembre de cette année.

由于全球疫情的存在，去年我们未能在阿布扎比举行理事会和年会。虽然相关的准备工作正在有序推进，以期能在今年11月举行会议，但我们必须等待并评估届时举行面对面会议的安全性和可行性。

We start the 47th volume of WONCA News with many introductions, including mine. For my first edition, I am also pleased to introduce the new WONCA Secretariat based in Brussels, Belgium

Dr John Wynn-Jones is well known in WONCA circles and immediate past chair of the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice. During the COVID-19 crisis he has been writing a 'Rural Miscellany' email with poems and resource ideas to help and divert us in this difficult time. In this first item of 2021, we publish "Truth" - written by John this month

WONCA participated in the 148th session of the Executive Board of the WHO with statements that addressed important items of the agenda such as Global Action on Patient Safety, Public Health Emergencies: Preparedness and Response and Mental Health Preparedness and Response for the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The WHO officially launched the Year of the Health and Care Workers campaign, under the slogan Protect. Invest. Together.

WONCA Europe 2021 Conference, originally planned to take place in Amsterdam, is now coming to you virtually and extends the abstract submission deadline until 15 February 2021.

The 17th WONCA World Rural Health Conference original lecture recordings and webinar series are now available for viewing and download.

Read the testimony of one of the participants of the virtual educational programme to equip 12 motivated family doctors who wish to advance the integration of behavioural health care into routine primary care practice.

This important day, as we celebrate Education internationally, offers a crucial opportunity to reflect together, globally, on a future beyond the trials and tribulations of this dreadful, heart breaking pandemic.

You can now download the WONCA Calendar 2021, an effort to spread information and create awareness amongst the general population about COVID-19.

Education for Primary Care offers free access to an interesting paper on undergraduate longitudinal clerkships: “The hidden curriculum and its marginalisation of Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships.”

The Ibero-American Confederation of Family Medicine (WONCA - CIMF) issued a statement on behalf of the multiple national associations of Family Medicine that constitute it, about the current situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic

The Primary Health Care Research Consortium is back! Join its second virtual event, part of Scaling New Frontiers in Primary Health Care Through Research & Partnership series

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network “ETUDE” searches for 15 PhD students to study Functional Disorders across Europe.