Newsletter: March 2015

In February I attended the WONCA South Asia Regional Conference held in Dhaka in Bangladesh. This was an opportunity to join with family medicine colleagues from across South Asia to discuss challenges and opportunities and share stories of success.

En febrero asistí a la Conferencia Regional de la Región WONCA del Sur de Asia, celebrada en Dhaka, en Bangladesh. Fue una oportunidad para unirnos con los colegas de medicina de familia de todo el sur de Asia y discutir los retos y oportunidades, así como compartir casos de éxito.

In this month’s WONCA News I want to report back on the Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC) which is held each year in Bangkok. I also want to highlight World Family Doctor Day which, as ever, will be celebrated on 19th May.

Dr Dawit Wondimagegn and Dr Brian Cornelson provide an update on the progress of the growth of family medicine in Ethiopia. An oft-quoted Ethiopian proverb is that ‘Slowly slowly the egg will (hatch and) walk.’ This egg is now walking!

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released its Global Status Report on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs)

WONCA Europe is coming to Istanbul from October 22-25, 2015. Submit your abstract by March 23, 2015 for consideration.

Earlier this month the WONCA South Asia Regional Conference 2015 was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Prof Kanu Bala reports on this highly successful event

Os escribo para compartir con vosotros lo que podría ser necesario incluir en términos de estrategia en una 'hoja de ruta' que fortaleciera la medicina de familia en vuestro propio país, y también para compartir con vosotros las cosas que mi propia organización miembro de WONCA hizo para tratar de asegurar este alto nivel de influencia.

I am writing to share with you what a ‘roadmap’ to strengthen family medicine in your own country might need to include in terms of strategy: and also to share with you the things my own WONCA member organisation, did to try to secure this high level intervention.

The WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice is giving lots of opportunities for people to “put stuff in” – it’s time now to participate.

A new WONCA Special Interest Group on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) was approved by the WONCA Executive in July 2013 and serves as a focus for the development of NCDs issues for Wonca worldwide.

WONCA Europe is coming to Istanbul from October 22-25, 2015. Submit your abstract by March 23, 2015 for consideration.

Earlier this month the WONCA South Asia Regional Conference 2015 was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Prof Kanu Bala reports on this highly successful event

A core project initiated in May 2012, has been a reflective process on the network’s future, and of research in general practice, in Europe in general. Quo Vadis, EGPRN?

The Philippine Academy of Family Physicians (PAFP) has announced its new officers for 2015-16.

The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) have announced that the Training for Health Equity Network (THEnet) is the very first recipient of the AFMC - Charles Boelen International Social Accountability Award.