Resources for Family Doctors

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.

September, 2017

More Goodfellow GEMS are added to our website. Gems are chosen by the director of the Goodfellow Unit, New Zealand, Dr Bruce Arroll, to be either practice changing or practice maintaining.

August, 2017

Well known colleague and Family Medicine leader, Prof Jan De Maeseneer has written a book, “Family Medicine and Primary Care at the Crossroads of Societal Change”. The WONCA Editor interviews Jan about this publication.