Working Party News

July, 2017

Dr John Wynn-Jones, Chair of RuralWONCA (WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice) summarises the annual report of the Working Party: It has been particularly busy year with two conferences within six months; at the World WONCA Conference in Rio de Janeiro (November 2016) and at our own 14th WONCA World Rural Health Conference in Cairns Australia (April 2017). Both were highly successful and it was valuable for our council to meet on both occasions.

July, 2017

Register by August 31 to Secure Super Early Bird Rate for WONCA World Rural Health Conference 2018. USD450 for WONCA Direct members and USD100 for Young Doctors.

July, 2017

Prof Val Wass, Chair of the WONCA Working Party on Education writes: Workshops at conferences and articles from "Education for Primary Care".

July, 2017

This paper explores ways peer group supervision in a long term well established group of general practitioners can improve communication and patient centred care at the same time maintaining enthusiasm and preventing burn out. In Denmark group supervision for general practitioners is an established part of continuing professional development.

June, 2017

The WONCA Rural Africa group (WoRA) was introduced at the 14th WONCA Rural Assembly in Cairns Australia and was unanimously accepted. WoRA will be launched on the 18 August 2017 during the 5th WONCA Africa region conference in Pretoria and in India during 15th Rural WONCA conference 2018.

June, 2017

The government of Ukraine, together with the WHO-office in Kiev, is engaged in a process of transformation of the health care system, strengthening primary care and family medicine. Dr. Kees van Boven and Prof. Jan De Maeseneer gave a two-days training workshop for 50 family doctors, coming from the different Oblasts (“Provinces” in Ukraine), in Kiev.

June, 2017

A task group of the WONCA Working Party for Mental Health, led by Alan Cohen (UK) and Kim Griswold (USA) has developed guidance to enable family doctors to care more effectively for their patients with severe mental illness.

May, 2017

Two Australian medical students, Thomas Currie (6th Year Medicine, James Cook University) and William Moorhead (4th Year Medicine, University of Queensland) – ‘Tom’ and ‘Billy’ attended the WONCA World Rural health conference in Cairns in early May. They provide their perspectives on the conference.

May, 2017

If you missed this amazing event, now is your opportunity to see our highlights reel! Thanks to everyone who attended the 14th World Rural Health Conference. It's hard to pick a highlight - there's so many to choose from! So here's some stand out events from the four days of conferencing.

May, 2017

The WONCA Working Party on the Environment has developed the WONCA Statement on Planetary Health and Sustainable Development Goals which was endorsed by the WONCA Executive in April 2017.