Conference News and Reports

May, 2015

The WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice met over two days before the beginning of the WONCA World Rural Health Conference in Dubrovnik in April 2015. People from all over the world, movers and shakers in rural health education, research and in health service provision, many jobbing doctors, trainees and students took part in two meetings

April, 2015

WONCA Europe region's conference this year is in Istanbul in October. abstract submission closes May 22 and early bird registration close on June 22. Mehmet Ungan writes more about the conference.

April, 2015

The WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice is holding the WONCA World Rural Health conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia this week. Welcome messages were given by the WONCA President and also WONCA Europe Vice President, Anna Stavdal.

March, 2015

The countdown to the WONCA Africa region conference is on! Coming to Accra, Ghana from May 6-9.

March, 2015

A report from the World Café workshop at the 2nd Vasco da Gama Forum in Dublin, 2015: The Best and Worst of Contemporary Health Systems in Europe.

March, 2015

At our twentieth conference, WONCA Europe invites you to look into the future from the perspective of the past. - find out more about the speakers already lined up. At our twentieth conference, WONCA Europe invites you to look into the future from the perspective of the past. Come to Istanbul to share what you think about family physicians, patients, diseases, health systems and WONCA with your colleagues from the speaker's corner.

February, 2015

WONCA Europe is coming to Istanbul from October 22-25, 2015. Submit your abstract by March 23, 2015 for consideration.

February, 2015

Earlier this month the WONCA South Asia Regional Conference 2015 was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Prof Kanu Bala reports on this highly successful event

February, 2015

At the recent South Asia region conference held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Prof Michael Kidd, WONCA President, delivered the second annual National Professor Nurul Islam Memorial Lecture.

February, 2015

Many of you have either submitted abstracts or confirmed your attendance at the conference in Lille, France on 28th – 30th April 2015, “Mental Health for All – Connecting People and Sharing Experience.”