Walk into the Rattlesnake Pit - WONCA Rural in Albuquerque
August, 2019
The WONCA World Rural health conference comes to Albuquerque in October. Please consider taking up our invitation to present your passion at the “Rattlesnake Pit” session on the Assembly Day of the World Rural Health Conference in Albuquerque, October 12th.
New Director of the Besrour Centre
August, 2019
On behalf of the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), it is my pleasure to announce the appointment of Dr. David Ponka to the role of Director of the Besrour Centre as of September 4, 2019.
WONCA Asia Pacific conference 2020 - call for abstracts
August, 2019
You are invited to submit abstracts and proposals for oral and poster presentations and for workshops that are in keeping with the themes of this, the WONCA Asia Pacific Regional Conference 2020, which is coming to Auckland, New Zealand in April 2020.
Island Generalist Medicine Symposium
August, 2019
Manabu Saito, Director of the Rural Generalist Program in Japan, writes on a symposium held at WONCA Kyoto 2019 (in conjunction with the Japan Primary Care Association).
From the President: July 2019
July, 2019
My first official visit to Africa, to the WONCA Africa conference in Kampala, Uganda, was thoroughly enjoyable. Delegates from 32 different countries came to share their enthusiasm and experiences of developing family medicine across the continent and further afield. The conference was truly about person-centred primary health care
From the CEO's desk: two new Special Interest Groups
July, 2019
This month I’d like to highlight two new Special Interest Groups (SIGs) which the WONCA Executive has recently endorsed: SIG on Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Care and SIG on LGBTQ Health. Find out more about these groups.
Vasco da Gama Movement in Bratislava
July, 2019
The Vasco da Gama Movement (VdGM) for young doctors in Europe was prominent at the recent WONCA Europe conference. Dr Katarzyna Nessler, new chair of the Movement reports:
A practice visit in Slovakia - the WONCA editor reports
July, 2019
During the recent WONCA Europe conference in Bratislava, the WONCA editor travelled outside the city to the nearby town of Pezinok on a visit to the practice of Dr Adriana Šimková. It was a multinational group with the editor being accompanied by colleagues Olgun Göktaş from Turkey and Hagit Dascal-Weichhendler from Israel.
Desde mi punto de vista ... Prof Chris van Weel
July, 2019
El pasado 27 de octubre de 2018, el congreso de Astaná de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (WHO) aprovó una declaración para fortalecer la Atención Primaria. En ella se admite la importancia de la asistencia en Atención Primaria, como una de las funciones centrales de los sistemas sanitarios para conseguir la cobertura universal de salud.