Rural Practice

August, 2018

This has been another busy year for the WONCA Working Party on Rural practice. John Wynn-Jones reports on conferences including the 15th WONCA World rural health conference held in India; as well as policies and statements, the rural seeds movement, special initiatives, networking and communication as well as future thinking.

July, 2018

Prof Christos Lionis (Greece) writes: Rural primary health care research promotes excellence in clinical practice and has been shown to improve staff recruitment and retention. While progress has been made recently to support research excellence in rural health care in Australia, Canada, the USA and some European countries, research in rural primary health care settings has received insufficient attention worldwide.

June, 2018

Dr Sumit Dubey is a dentist from New Delhi, India. He specialises in Prosthodontics and Oral Implantology. He wishes to bring about oral health awareness to the most remote parts of India

May, 2018

Many have just returned from an extremely successful WONCA World Rural Health conference in Delhi. Dr Pratyush Kumar, chair of the Host Organising committee and Dr Raman Kumar President of the Academy of Family Physicians of India report on the many aspects of this wonderful event.

April, 2018

This month we reproduce a blog entry from RuralGP.com written by Dr Steve McCabe who works at the Portree Medical Practice on the Isle of Skye and giving his perspective on rural healthcare… "I work as part of a group practice in Portree, the largest settlement on Scotland’s second largest island, Skye. Skye is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful islands in the world."

April, 2018

The young doctors and medical students of the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice 'Rural Seeds" have worked together with young members of the Working Party on the Environment to make an innovative movie "Planetary Health? What is this?"

March, 2018

​Dr Veronika Rasic is a GP trainee and co-chair of Rural Seeds, a group of young doctors and medical students with an interest in rural practice. Veronica recently authored a blog entry on the Transformative Education for Health Professionals. The subject of the blog entry is “Connecting Future Rural Healthcare Workers with Rural Communities”

February, 2018

The WONCA rural family will be meeting once again in two months’ time in Delhi for the 15th WONCA World Rural Health Conference. It is this global collective approach that has made a difference over the last 22 years since we met in Shanghai in 1996 for our first inaugural conference.

January, 2018

​Lauren Smithson MD, together with some American colleagues struggling with communication and isolation in wanting to train in rural medicine, started the society for young rural surgeons (SYRUS). This was something that came out of a need for people with rural interests in health care being able to find mentors, jobs, and training opportunities in rural medical careers. Basically, we need connectivity, and we need a strong rural voice in medical training. Lauren is a surgeon in St Anthony, Newfoundland and writes more about SYRUS.

December, 2017

We invite you to 15th WONCA World Rural Health Conference at New Delhi from 26-29 April 2018. Registration and Abstract submission is open for all. Last Date for Abstract Submission is 31st December.