WONCA News

April, 2019

​ Jessie Mbamba, family medicine registrar from Malawi, received a Montegut global scholarship to attend the WONCA World conference, in Seoul, in 2018. The Montegut Global Scholars Program (MGSP) was established by the American Board of Family Medicine Foundation (ABFM-F) in 2010. The MGSP was established to foster international education, research and collaboration, in the specialty of family medicine.

April, 2019

Ana Nunes Barata coordinates news from the various regional groups of the Young Doctors' Movement.

April, 2019

Ana Nunes Barata coordinates news from the various regional groups of the Young Doctors' Movement.

April, 2019

The WONCA President, Donald Li has written to Dr Jayantha Jayatissa, President, College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka:

April, 2019

Alan Abelsohn and Alice McGushin from the WONCA Working Party on the Environment report on the high level of interest in the WONCA Air Health Train the Trainer Program.

April, 2019

Dr Garth Manning, our current CEO, will be stepping down from his current role in December 2020. We are beginning the search for a successor; please read and circulate the attached advertisement widely to anyone who might be interested in applying.

April, 2019

The WONCA 2020 world conference coming to Abu Dhabi, has launched its call for abstracts for workshops and symposia.

April, 2019

During the year 2018 Guus Busser, Principal Lecturer at Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, gradually took over the chair of the SIG. As Maria van den Muijsenbergh, the former chair, and Guus are working at the same department their cooperation will continue. The SIG has steadily grown over the years with a sharp rise this last year.

April, 2019

The Special Interest Group on Family Violence (SIG FV) has focused over the last two years on expanding our global connections to systematically support family doctors to address family violence in practice and policy. We have an Executive group consisting of the co-convenors, Hagit Dascal-Weichhendler and Kelsey Hegarty, the past co-chair Leo Pas and communications lead Raquel Gomez Bravo.

April, 2019

The WONCA SIG on Complexities in Health has successfully promoted complexity thinking and research in regional and world meetings with many young researchers integrating this into their local work. The SIG is slowly edging towards reaching a critical mass that will require the implementation of a complexity stream in meetings and a representation in the organization’s formal structures.