WONCA News

November, 2015

With less than two weeks away from the climate change negotiations in Paris (COP-21), please take a moment, if you haven’t done so, and sign the WHO Call to Action on health and climate change

November, 2015

Le président de WONCA et le président de WONCA Europe ont tous deux adressé des messages de condoléances concernant les attentats dévastateurs de Paris à nos collègues en France au nom de la famille WONCA.

November, 2015

WONCA President, Michael Kidd and WONCA Europe President, Prof Job FM Metsemakers have sent messages of condolence to our colleagues in France on behalf of the greater WONCA family.

November, 2015

Los pasados 11 y 12 de Septiembre de 2015, un centenar de residentes y jóvenes médicos de familia (JMF) se reunieron en el Colegio Oficial de Médicos de las Islas Baleares (COMIB) en Palma de Mallorca (España), para participar en el III Encuentro Balear de Residentes y JMFs, organizado por la Sociedad Balear de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria (Ibamfic), con la colaboración del COMIB, de la Sociedad Española de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria (semFYC) y del Movimiento Vasco da Gama.

November, 2015

WONCA Europe region held its annual conference in Istanbul during October and as a result WONCA News for November sees a focus on WONCA Europe. Harris Lygidakis, WONCA Europe Hon Secretary, reports on the conference. "Returning from the WONCA Europe conference in Istanbul, we look back at an amazing organizational feat, led by Okay Basak, Dilek Guldal, Mehmet Ungan and Resat Dabak, which saw the participation of more than 3,600 colleagues, more than 1,000 of whom being junior doctors or trainees."

November, 2015

I was in Kyrgyzstan, accompanied by WONCA president-elect, Amanda Howe, and WONCA Europe President, Job Metsemakers, for the nation’s first congress of general practitioners and family physicians, hosted by the Minister of Health and the leadership of the Kyrgyz State Medical Academy. Kyrgyzstan, like many countries in Central Asia, is facing a new round of health system reform, based on family medicine and strengthening primary health care.

November, 2015

WONCA Europe has announced its 5 Star doctor for 2015 : Dr Ali Cerrahoğlu MD, family physician of Turkey.

November, 2015

The MGSP was established to foster international education, research and collaboration, in the specialty of family medicine. Read how the schoalrship helped Shastri Motilal from Jamaica and Patrick O'Donnell from Ireland.

November, 2015

The WONCA Annual Report 2014-15 is now available. It is a large and comprehensive document produced by our Secretariat - find out more about WONCA activities.

November, 2015

The World Health Organisation has recently updated its mhGAP guidelines for the management of common mental health problems in low and middle income countries. WONCA works closely with WHO and offers consultancy services in support of mhGAP.