WONCA News

July, 2015

Prof Ruth Wilson is the WONCA North America region president. WONCA congratulates her on receiving the civil award of Member of the Order of Canada.

July, 2015

La Región Mediterránea Oriental es la nueva región de WONCA, aunque la medicina de familia se instaló ahí hace ya mucho tiempo, tal y como nos demuestran los escritos del Antiguo Egipto. Esta nueva Región Mediterránea Oriental se extiende desde Marruecos, en el oeste, hasta Afganistán, incluyendo más de 20 países .

June, 2015

The WONCA East Mediterranean Region is WONCA’s newest region, but family medicine has been in this region for a very long time, as we have seen from the writings of Ancient Egypt. WONCA’s East Mediterranean region extends from Morocco in the west, to Afghanistan in the east, and includes over 20 countries.

June, 2015

Nagwa Nashat Hegazy was a Montegut Scholar attending the recent WONCA East Mediterranean region congress was held from 30 April to 2 May 2015 in Dubai city in the UAE. This edited report written by Nagwa is reproduced with the permission of the American Board of Family Medicine Foundation (ABFM-F) who provide the scholarship.

June, 2015

So what does the deep commitment to “family” mean in our title? As I sat in the late nights in a hospital ward following the birth, I thought of witness, watching and waiting, wonder.

June, 2015

This month we make a special rural feature in WONCA News. In April, the WONCA world rural health conference was held in Dubrovnik and our very active WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice formally met. The WWPRP is chaired by Dr John Wynn-Jones of Wales and he and Dr Jo Scott-Jones of New Zealand have fueled such a wave of enthusiasm from working party members that we have decided to make a special rural feature in this month's WONCA News.

June, 2015

Veronika Rasic, a family medicine trainee, from Croatia and a member of the Vasco da Gama Movement for young doctors writes on her experience with the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice in Croatia recently. She is now looking to connect with other young rural enthusiasts.

June, 2015

I started the month in Seoul, South Korea, attending the international conference of ICOH and I also met with some of the Host Organizing Committee for the 2018 WONCA World Conference.

June, 2015

At the WONCA Rural health conference in Dubrovnik the new Working Party on Rural Practice’s resource page was launched to augment the existing webpage on WONCA's website. The new resource page will provide an up to date working space

June, 2015

A great conference leaves an impression that lasts, a great health conference creates something new that impacts on patient outcomes. On this measure, Dubrovnik was a great conference. Jo Scott-Jones reports.