Working Party News

April, 2021

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

April, 2021

Professor Christopher Dowrick, chair of the WONCA Working Party on Mental Health shares the latest news on the WP.

February, 2021

The 17th WONCA World Rural Health Conference original lecture recordings and webinar series are now available for viewing and download.

February, 2021

Read the testimony of one of the participants of the virtual educational programme to equip 12 motivated family doctors who wish to advance the integration of behavioural health care into routine primary care practice.

January, 2021

This important day, as we celebrate Education internationally, offers a crucial opportunity to reflect together, globally, on a future beyond the trials and tribulations of this dreadful, heart breaking pandemic.

January, 2021

You can now download the WONCA Calendar 2021, an effort to spread information and create awareness amongst the general population about COVID-19.

January, 2021

Education for Primary Care offers free access to an interesting paper on undergraduate longitudinal clerkships: “The hidden curriculum and its marginalisation of Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships.”

December, 2020

Education for Primary Care: Issue 31: 6 is now online here with the regular wide range of articles. This month, free access is available here for the article: “Reimagining medical education for primary care in the time of COVID-19: a world view.”

December, 2020

The completely modernised International Classification for Primary Care (ICPC) wiil be launched on December 15 and be available without cost, online at www.icpc-3.info, and includes supporting information and training material.

November, 2020

I trust you are all staying well, despite the resurgence of the pandemic in many parts of the world. The results of the turbulent US elections remind us that change is possible. As Jill Benson told us during our recent webinar: “We need to stay hopeful, because we know that hopelessness is more infectious that COVID-19”.