WONCA News

September, 2016

College of Family Medicine Pakistan has initiated its research cell. The project was initiated by the board of executive directors of the CFMP. Some of these members have expertise in conducting both clinical as well as community interventional research.

September, 2016

​The Balearic and Spanish Societies of Family and Community Medicine (Ibamfic and SemFYC) have the great honor to invite you to the IV Balearic Meeting of European Residents & Young GPs - “Connecting Doctors”, which will be held in Palma de Mallorca on October 21st and 22nd of 2016.

September, 2016

Dr Garth Manning and I, were invited to visit Maldives from 20th to 22nd August 2016 by Dr Ali Shareef, the Maldives’ first Dirct Member of WONCA and also its first GP trainee

September, 2016

El próximo 10 de octubre es el Día Mundial de la Salud Mental (World Mental Health Day, WMHD). El tema entorno el cual gira el Día Mundial de la Salud Mental de este año es “primeros auxilios psicológicos”.

September, 2016

​October 10th is World Mental Health Day (WMHD). This year’s WMHD theme is ‘Dignity in Mental Health-Psychological and Mental Health First Aid for All" - which is a common need in our clinics.

September, 2016

WONCA is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Goodfellow Unit of the University of Auckland in New Zealand. As a result we will be promoting an educational resource "GoodFellow Gems" which are produced by the Goodfellow Unit.

September, 2016

As the President of WONCA East Mediterranean Region, it gives me great pleasure and honor to invite you to Fourth WONCA East Mediterranean Region Family Medicine Congress which will be held during 2-4 March 2017 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

September, 2016

Have you heard about the "Rural Health Stories" set up by a partnership of WONCA Rural South Asia (WoRSA) and the World Rural Medicine Students Network. This month we note that WONCA’s President Elect, Prof Amanda Howe has submitted a very lovely poem "Human Kindness".

September, 2016

The Cook Islands Fellowship in General Practice training program aims to create a workforce of well-trained family doctors to serve the future health care needs of the people of the Cook Islands, and is part of a wonderful collaboration between the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education in the Cook Islands, the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners and New Zealand’s University of Otago.

August, 2016

WHO is conducting a global survey on the use of computed tomography (CT) in asymptomatic individuals for individual health assessment to gather information on the current status of this practice, and results are to be presented in Rio.