Resources for Family Doctors

November, 2019

Free Access is being offered for a paper in the 30:4 issue : As professional identity formation is becoming an increasingly important concept and this paper refers to three important papers on this I felt it offered an opportunity to reflect on how as GP educators we can really support our students and trainees to develop in the challenging and rapidly changing health care environment we all face

October, 2019

The Toolkit was launched at the 2019 EAPC conference in Berlin. It was presented at a plenary lecture to the audience of about 3000 delegates who each received a copy. Professor Scott Murray from the University of Edinburgh presented an infographic about the Toolkit and a short video about how it might be used.

September, 2019

More Goodfellow Unit GEMS have been loaded this month. What is a GEM? Gems are chosen by the Goodfellow Unit director Dr Bruce Arroll to be either practice changing or practice maintaining. The information is educational and not clinical advice. ©The Goodfellow Unit, Auckland, New Zealand.

June, 2019

WONCA Working Party on the Environment in its May 2019 newsletter provides some interesting resources on environmental issues.

January, 2019

Gems added this month; Goodfellow Gems are chosen by the Goodfellow Unit director Dr Bruce Arroll to be either practice changing or practice maintaining. The information is educational and not clinical advice. ©The Goodfellow Unit (New Zealand). With permission, WONCA adds links to a number of these to our website.

May, 2018

Some extra PEARLS have been sourced for this month. Practical Evidence About Real Life Situations - are brief (minimalistic summaries) of Cochrane Primary care systematic reviews with the answer in the title (so you only read the ones you like). And there are a few new Goodfellow GEMS as well.

May, 2018

Goodfellow Gems​ are chosen by the Goodfellow director Dr Bruce Arroll to be either practice changing or practice maintaining. The information is educational and not clinical advice. ©The Goodfellow Unit. PEARLS -Practical Evidence About Real Life Situations are brief (minimalistic summaries) of Cochrane Primary care systematic reviews with the answer in the title

February, 2018

Every month the journal Education for Primary Care provides WONCA members with free access to one interesting article. We are offering free access this month to a paper from Maggie Bartlett and the team at Keele Medical School UK on community attachments for 15 weeks in final year and the accompanying stimulating commentary from Paul Worley.

January, 2018

There are a number of new resources now added on the WONCA website.Some have been provided by WONCA Working Parties and Special Interest Groups and others are more Goodfellow Gems and PEARLS.

September, 2017

PEARLS - Practical Evidence About Real Life Situations: These are brief (minimalistic summaries) of Cochrane Primary care systematic reviews with the answer in the title (so you only read the ones you like). Ten new PEARLS added to the website.