WONCA News

December, 2017

As a new initiative, WONCA's Young Doctors' representative on World Executive, Ana Nunes Barata (Portugal), is coordinating regular news from our seven region Young Doctors' Movements. Not every region's movement will always provide news but each two months we hope to bring you news from some of the regions.

December, 2017

En este último foro de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, que tuvo lugar en la capital de Irlanda, Dublín, entre los pasados días 13 y 17 de noviembre, asistieron como representantes de WONCA hasta tres miembros del Ejecutivo Mundial (Anna Stavdal, Job Metsemakers y Ana Nunes Barata, en representación de nuestro Movimiento de Jóvenes Médicos de Familia), así como un importante número de representantes de nuestro Grupo de Trabajo en Medicina Rural, incluyendo John Wynn Jones, Bruce Chater, Jim Rourke.

December, 2017

Drs Leslie and James Rourke are announced as co-WONCA Five Star Doctors for the region of North America. A joint award for the WONCA North America 5-Star Doctor may be unconventional, however, in addition to being partners in marriage, James and Leslie Rourke have been practice partners throughout their careers. Both James and Leslie Rourke exemplify the five pillars of the WONCA Five Star Doctor.

December, 2017

Dr Chhabi Lal Adhikari, Professor and GP Course Coordinator, Department of General Practice at Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan writes on the journey that has led to Bhutan’s first GP specialist training programme and then to that programme becoming a WONCA Academic Member Organization.

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.

December, 2017

​As forecast in last month’s column, November has been a month of conferences and conference activities. The WONCA CEO reports on conferences in Thailland, Nepal and thinks forward to the 2018 World conference in Korea.

December, 2017

Early bird registration closes December 31, 2017 and abstracts are open only until December 17, for WONCA Europe Kraków. Prof Adam Windak, Conference Scientific Committee chair, speaks to the WONCA editor about this conference and comparisons to the previous excellent one he help organise in Warsaw in 2011.

December, 2017

Alors que le calendrier occidental touche à sa fin, j’espère que cette lettre vous trouvera en bonne forme et que le monde de la médecine se porte bien dans votre pays. Au nom de nous tous au comité de direction et au secrétariat de WONCA, je vous souhaite, à vous et vos familles, une excellente nouvelle année dans la paix pour 2018.

December, 2017

Mientras las fechas especiales del calendario occidental se acercan, espero que estas lleguen a vosotros y a vosotras en un buen momento y que la Medicina de Familia se encuentre en una situación próspera en vuestros países. En nombre de todos nosotros y del Ejecutivo y Secretariado de WONCA, quiero desearos a todos y todas y a vuestras familias un exitoso y pacífico nuevo año 2018.

December, 2017

This WHO forum, held from November 13-17, 2017, in Dublin Ireland, was attended on behalf of WONCA by three members of our World Executive (Anna Stavdal, Job Metsemakers, and Ana Nunes Barata for our Young Doctors’ Movement), and a number of the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice leaders.