WONCA News

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

A CPD programme was organized by the Spice Route Movement (Movement for Young Doctors) of Sri Lanka on February 17, 2018. The evening was attended by a large gathering of enthusiastic general practitioners, both young and young at heart, who were intrigued by the topics.

April, 2018

J’écris depuis la conférence du Nigeria, conférence intense et énergique présentée par l’une de nos organisations membres - Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria (AGPMPN). Ceci est ma première visite en Afrique occidentale au cours de mon mandat.

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?"

April, 2018

When I attended the WONCA Iberoamerica region conference in Colombia in March, I also saw a new idea – different countries in the region all working together on programmes of work, and reporting their work in to the regional conference. This was used to inform delegates, but also to help the leaders in the Executive and the national country leaders in making their policies – useful for discussing issues with stakeholders.

April, 2018

WONCA East Mediterranean Region (EMR) has planned to meet different ministers of health in our region in order to promote and seek more support to the family medicine specialty. As the first step, delegates from WONCA EMR had a fruitful meeting with His Excellency Prof Mahmoud Al-Sheyyab, the Jordanian Minister of Health

April, 2018

James and Leslie Rourke are the recipients of the WONCA North America Region 5 Star Doctor Award 2017 and Dr Wilson took the opportunity of visiting their province of Newfoundland, to present the award. A joint nomination for the WONCA North America 5-Star Doctor may be unconventional.

April, 2018

The 2017 Ian McWhinney lecture by Dr Larry A. Green from the University of Colorado focused on personal doctoring. It explored whether or not people will have a personal physician anymore. The lecture has been published by Canadian Family Physician and translated into Spanish by Julio Ceitlin.

April, 2018

World Family Doctor Day comes again on May 19 - celebrate our special day this year. We have chosen as the key theme “Family doctors – leading the way to better health”. Access resources, see Taiwan's 2018 poster and a message from Canada.

April, 2018

WONCA has had an application for membership from the Association of Family Medicine of Tajikistan. Dr Greta Ross tells us more about the situation in Tajikistan. In 2017, Greta joined the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation’s Medical Education Reform project (MEP) in Tajikistan.