Newsletter: May 2021

WONCA’s suite of accreditation and certification schemes have been developed, robustly tested, refined and implemented over a period of years.

El conjunto de esquemas de Acreditación y Certificación de WONCA se ha desarrollado, robustamente probado, refinado e implementado de manera sólida durante un período de varios años.

La gamme des accréditations et de certifications de la WONCA a été développée, testée de manière robuste, affinée et mise en œuvre depuis de plusieurs années.

WONCA整套认证和鉴定方案经过了多年的发展、严格测试、改进和实施。WONCA认证制定了大家能够遵循的全球标准，这有助于提升WONCA形象。

We have reached the fifth month of the year and the fourth edition of WONCA News. May has been a month of lots of planning and preparations.

WONCA accreditation provides a professional, collegial context within which individual practices and post graduate programmes can review their standards, improve them where necessary, and gain approval from our global organisation.

The entire WONCA community stands with you in solidarity and support in these challenging and difficult times.

The World Federation of Public Health Associations hosted a historic meeting to initiate a coalition amongst leaders from international NGOs who share a common interest in equitable access for vaccines and treatment during COVID-19.

Today we honour the memory and legacy of Dr Anne Deborah Atai Omoruto, better known to all as Atai, five years after her death, on May 5, 2016.

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, the last item of 'Rural Miscellany', we publish "Farewell, Goodbye and the End"

From August 19 to 22, 2021, WONCA CIMF will host the 7th Iberoamerican Familiar Medicine Conference, 16th Brazilian Family and Community Medicine Conference and the 1st Planetary Health Conference, fully online!

Find out more about WONCA Europe 2021 Virtual Conference and make sure you save your spot for Europe’s Top Conference for General Practitioners!

An innovative initiative in Bahrain

After the success of the Planetary Health Online Course, the WONCA Environment and TelessaúdeRS-UFRGS launched the Planetary Health course for Primary Care, with a focus on clinical practice and the reality of health professionals.

Promote rural health as a career option, provide support for current rural health professionals, and advocate for better healthcare for rural communities globally

WONCA welcomes Prof Dr Shlomo Vinker as a new member of the Executive Committee. Dr Vinker will serve as President of WONCA Europe, succeeding Prof. Dr Mehmet Ungan.

The Ibero-American Confederation of Family Medicine (WONCA Iberoamericana-CIMF) expresses its support to the Colombian Society of Family Medicine (SOCMEF) in defending the right to health and its claims in favour of a better health system.

The McGill Family Medicine Education Research Group (FMER) is proud to announce the sponsorship of ‘The Pierre Pluye International Mixed Methods Thesis and Dissertations Awards in Family Medicine Education’