Special Interest Group News

September, 2018

Rich Withnall report on the past years' activities for te eSIG on Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine and sets out aims for the coming two years.

August, 2018

​Miguel Pizzanelli, (Uruguay), convenor, SIG on Quaternary Prevention & Overmedicalization (QP&O), writes on th epast year's activites and notes the group is preparing a working meeting of the group in the WONCA World Conference in Seoul.

August, 2018

Dr William Wong, convenor for the Special Interest Group (SIG) on Health Equity reports: oOver the last year, the group has been devoted to its core agenda of promoting Health Equity in primary care.

August, 2018

Hagit Dascal-Weichhendler (Israel) and Kelsey Hegarty (Australia) co-convenors of the SIG on Family Violence report on activities for 2017-18 and look to the future - at the international level we are exploring the idea of offering consultancies to regional areas, to help strengthen knowledge, education and training.

August, 2018

Prof Maria van den Muijsenbergh, convenor, SIG on Migrant Care, International Health and Travel Medicine writes: the SIG has steadily grown over the years and now consists of a group of members from 18 different nations in Australia, South- Africa, USA, South-America, Middle-East and Europe.

August, 2018

Victor Ng, SIG convenor writes: Below are a few examples of the great work of our WONCA SIG EM members in various WONCA regions. While this is far from an exhaustive list, it shows the commitment of our members to promote acute and emergency medicine to the rest of our family medicine colleagues. We appreciate and are thankful for their service to our discipline.

August, 2018

The WONCA Special Interest Group on Ageing and Health has been reconvened in this 12 months. New convenor, Prof Dimity Pond (Australia) reports: The group has been busy producing a consensus statement about the importance of strengthening family medicine in the face of the increasing numbers of elderly people throughout the countries of the world.

August, 2018

We continue to recruit and welcome new members from all WONCA regions who wish to work together to strengthen the discipline of Family Medicine with a special interest on Workers Health. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Alma Declaration, Family Doctors must emphasize our passion for Primary Care,

August, 2018

As of 24 April 2018, there are 113 members in the Special Interest Group (SIG) on Global Point-of- Care Testing (POCT), comprising 11 Executive Members and 102 General Members; these members represent 44 different countries and all seven WONCA regions.

July, 2018

During the 23rd WONCA Europe Conference held in Krakow in May 2018, the VdGM Family Violence Group presented a workshop in collaboration with the WONCA SIG on Family Violence, focusing on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and its impact on exposed children.