Working Party News

September, 2014

The international electronic journal of Rural and Remote Health research education and practice policy has published a review by Dr John Wootton of the WONCA Rural Medical Education Guidebook.

August, 2014

This month Peter Sloane who is the newly elected chair of the Wonca Europe's movement for young doctors, the Vasco da Gama movement, writes about being a rural GP (and a young GP) in Ireland.

August, 2014

WONCA is pleased to have endorsed the "Mental Health for all, connecting people and sharing experience" conference coming to Lille, in France, in April next year. The chair of WONCA's Working Party on Mental Health, Luis Gálvez invited colleagues to attend.

August, 2014

Did you miss the WONCA Rural Health conference in Gramado - abstracts are now available online. English and Portuguese

July, 2014

Prof Roger Strasser, inaugural chair of the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice delivered the 2014 John Macleod oration at Gramado. The oration is titled "Improving the Health of Rural People through Health Workforce Policy"

June, 2014

Dr Jo Scott-Jones writes on preparing for the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice 13th WONCA World Rural Health Conference being held in Dubrovnik Croatia, in April 2015.

June, 2014

Family Doctors in The Field - environmental stories from across the globe, was launched on 4 July at the WONCA Europe conference in Lisbon, Portugal. It is a collection of inspiring stories from doctors from around the world who have combined working as a family doctor with some form of environmental work.

May, 2014

Jo Scott- Jones of New Zealand, writes this month's rural round up - and reflects on some lessons learned at Gramado.

April, 2014

John Wynn- Jones reports on the 12th World Rural Health Conference, held recently in Gramado, Brazil

April, 2014

The WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice Award for Outstanding Service to Rural Practice presented to Dr Bruce Chater, of Queensland, Australia, at the WONCA World Rural Health Conference, Gramado, Brazil, April 2014