WONCA News

May, 2019

WONCA Iberoamericana CIMF, which brings together twenty countries including Spain and Portugal, held its sixth Congress of Family and Community Medicine of Ibero-America, in Tijuana, in May. More than 1,500 family doctors and health professionals from all areas of Ibero-America met in Tijuana, Mexico.

May, 2019

This World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) workshop calls for international action to improve access and uptake of vaccinations in all countries across the globe.

May, 2019

La Asamblea Mundial de la Salud (World Health Assembly, WHA) fue un momento de actividad frenética, con encuentros y eventos paralelos a los que asistir y en los que participar. La delegación de la WONCA estaba constituida por mí, por la Presidenta electa Anna Stavdal, por el CEO Garth Manning y por la persona de contacto de la WONCA con la OMS, Viviana Martínez-Bianchi, y tuvimos una agenda especialmente llena. Nos encontramos, de forma individual y en grupo, con representantes de la Organización Mundial de la Salud y otras agencias y organizaciones, representantes todas ellas de una amplia gama de intereses.

May, 2019

每年的世界卫生大会是我们埋首工作的日子，我与一众代表团成员，包括候任主席Anna Stavdal、首席执行官 Garth Manning和世卫组织联络员Viviana Martinez-Bianchi等，出席了大大小小的会议，行程紧密但获益良多。每年世界卫生大会的特色，是同时鼓励场内及场外的讨论交流。我们与世卫组织和多个机构会面之余， 还参加了不少场外的活动。

May, 2019

Sommer Aldulaimi MD FAAFP discusses the way one urban-based Family Medicine Residency Program in Arizona, USA, has accomplished 45% of its graduating residents from the last three years working in rural practice and 100% of the graduates from the last three years working in healthcare professional shortage areas in North America.

May, 2019

It’s always a very busy time, with important meetings with WHO colleagues and statements being made on your behalf in general committee meetings, and I will report back more fully in next month’s news. For this month though I wanted to look ahead to some WONCA events which are some months away but which I urge you to get into your diary.

May, 2019

​WONCA APR 2019 was held from May 15-18, 2019 at Kyoto International Conference Center, hosted by the Japan Primary Care Association. Total number of participants was 1643, from 46 countries, from all over the world.

May, 2019

All the latest information for those coming to WONCA Europe's conference in Bratislava in June. Practice visits, skills labs, walking workshop.

April, 2019

As President-Elect, I had two years in which to plan how I wanted my presidency to look and to decide how it should operate. I realised very early in the process, that WONCA is truly blessed with the range and depth of knowledge within the organisation. There is a huge amount of institutional knowledge and expertise among those who have been Presidents in the past, and those who have served on WONCA Executive.

April, 2019

Nihao! Hello from Beijing where we have just completed the first full face to face meeting of the 2018-20 WONCA Executive. The meeting was planned to coincide with the 4th Annual General Practice Training Forum of the Chinese Medical Doctors’ Association (CMDA) Society of GPs (a WONCA Member) during which all members of Executive took part in a global panel discussion. My article this month is to try to summarise some of the key issues discussed, and decisions reached, by Executive during the meeting.