Newsletter: May 2020

As one conference or meeting after another is cancelled or postponed in each of our regions and for many of our Member Organisations, we are looking for – and finding - new and innovative ways of keeping in touch, keeping informed, providing each other with care and support.

Alors que conférences et réunions se succèdent et sont annulées ou reportées dans chacune de nos régions et pour beaucoup de nos organisations membres, nous cherchons - et trouvons - des moyens nouveaux et innovants pour rester en contact, nous informer, nous soigner et nous soutenir mutuellement.

Mientras asistimos a cancelaciones o aplazamientos de eventos – uno tras otro – en cada una de las regiones mundiales por parte de nuestra organizaciones miembro, estamos buscando y encontrando nuevas e innovadoras formas de mantenernos conectados para cuidarnos a y apoyarnos.

随着COVID - 19 的威胁继续蔓延全球，影响了各地人民的生活，没有人可以预知世界将会变成什么的模样

For all of us, the last few weeks have been quite surreal. COVID-19 has had a major impact on countries around the globe, with very significant effects on the health systems and the economies. Health systems have been placed under immense strain and family doctors have had to quickly learn new ways of working, with virtual consultations and telemedicine becoming the norm in a very short space of time.

WONCA has launched a webinar series on COVID-19. Watch previous webinars online. Find out how to join the next WONCA webinar on Quality & Safety coming on Sunday, 24 May at 1pm UTC.

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 daily 'Rural Miscellany' email with poems and resource ideas to help and divert us in this difficult time. He graciously agreed to write a guest column for WONCA News this month. "Can the arts flourish at a time of pestilence and are the two mutually exclusive?"

The WONCA Working Party on Education thanks WONCA World for hosting a Working Party on Education webinar. It provided an international platform to explore the impact of COVID-19 on Education and Training.

Prof Bruce Arroll has now made a high quality film on the subject - Depression -an evidence based first consultation"

世界家庭医生组织（WONCA）一直支持不同国家、文化地域的家庭医生与全科医生，旨力促使所有人能享有安全可达及优质的医疗服务

No method to evaluate digital health solutions through the eyes of family doctors existed and therefore WONCA, supported by its Working Party on eHealth, decided to develop a dedicated assessment framework. This framework includes 11 domains of evaluation: ranging from user aspects to healthcare system and ethical matters.

Felicity Goodyear-Smith writes: We want to know how prepared you think your country was to deal with COVID-19, how your country responded, the nature of your primary health care system, and changes that have been made in fighting this pandemic. We want to see how these factors might influence the rate and pattern of incidence and deaths.

In the moment of a great public health crisis, something which impacts all human beings on the earth, we the family physicians of South Asia are together in solidarity with all our professional colleagues and people. We salute all healthcare workers who have stood to this call of duty. There is no greater service than the service of humanity. May we all triumph together for ourselves, our families, our people, our countries and our world.

Prof Bruce Arroll has now made a high quality film on the subject - Depression -an evidence based first consultation"

We’re happy for Member Organizations to develop their own theme for FDD, depending on local priorities, but this year we’d especially like to highlight the theme that relevant to challenges and responsibilities of family doctors in the new global coronavirus outbreak. – "Family doctors on the front line".