WONCA News

April, 2019

Dr Garth Manning, our current CEO, will be stepping down from his current role in December 2020. We are beginning the search for a successor; please read and circulate the attached advertisement widely to anyone who might be interested in applying.

April, 2019

The WONCA 2020 world conference coming to Abu Dhabi, has launched its call for abstracts for workshops and symposia.

April, 2019

During the year 2018 Guus Busser, Principal Lecturer at Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, gradually took over the chair of the SIG. As Maria van den Muijsenbergh, the former chair, and Guus are working at the same department their cooperation will continue. The SIG has steadily grown over the years with a sharp rise this last year.

April, 2019

The Special Interest Group on Family Violence (SIG FV) has focused over the last two years on expanding our global connections to systematically support family doctors to address family violence in practice and policy. We have an Executive group consisting of the co-convenors, Hagit Dascal-Weichhendler and Kelsey Hegarty, the past co-chair Leo Pas and communications lead Raquel Gomez Bravo.

April, 2019

The WONCA SIG on Complexities in Health has successfully promoted complexity thinking and research in regional and world meetings with many young researchers integrating this into their local work. The SIG is slowly edging towards reaching a critical mass that will require the implementation of a complexity stream in meetings and a representation in the organization’s formal structures.

April, 2019

The WONCA SIG on Emergency Medicine was formed in 2016 at the WONCA world conference at Rio de Janeiro. Since that time, we have grown to include over 100 members representing trainees and practising family doctors from all regions of the world. We have a strong work plan that is engaged in creating networks among members who are interested in acute and emergency medicine as a component of their family practice.

April, 2019

The Special Interest Group on Workers Health has achieved several things, but perhaps its greatest achievement has to do with being living proof that working together between major organizations is possible and fruitful.

March, 2019

Tout président de WONCA a un avantage dans l’une ou l’autre partie du monde selon son lieu de naissance, la (les) langue(s) qu’il parle, l’endroit où il exerce et là où il vit. Nous utilisons nos avantages particuliers pour influencer l’adoption d’une médecine familiale de qualité au niveau mondial -mais nous les utilisons aussi pour exercer notre influence au niveau local.

March, 2019

WONCA is seeking applications for the Atai Omoruto Scholarship award to attend the WONCA Africa Regional Conference and WONCA Working Party on Women and Family Medicine preconference in Kampala, Uganda 5 -8 June, 2019.

March, 2019

Each WONCA President has an advantage in one part of the world or another depending on where they were born, what language(s) they speak, where they practice, and where they live. We use the advantages we have to help influence the uptake of and quality of family medicine globally – but we also use any advantage we have to influence things closer to home as well.