WONCA News

September, 2018

The WONCA Europe conference is coming to Bratislava, Slovakia in 2019. Call for abstracts and registration are both open. Find out more about the lovely city of Bratislava!

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.

September, 2018

The World Federation for Mental Health is focusing the 2018 WMHDAY campaign on Young People and Mental Health in a Changing World. Please join us with your activities on World Mental health Day ​

September, 2018

This is the second announcement in WONCA News about the WONCA Asia Pacific region conference coming in 2019 to Kyoto, Japan. The conference will be held from May 15-18, 2019 and this item lists important dates for registration and abstracts.

September, 2018

WONCA’s Young Doctors Movements (YDMs) are proud to announce the establishment of the Young Doctors’ Movements Global Fund - a platform to collect donations that are going to be used for different activities of Young Doctors’ Movements from all over the globe.

August, 2018

This has been another busy year for the WONCA Working Party on Rural practice. John Wynn-Jones reports on conferences including the 15th WONCA World rural health conference held in India; as well as policies and statements, the rural seeds movement, special initiatives, networking and communication as well as future thinking.

August, 2018

In early August I returned from a very enjoyable trip to the Royal New Zealand College of GPs (RNZCGP) who invited me to their annual conference and on the way home I also visited our colleagues in Singapore. This is the third time I have been to New Zealand, and the second time to the RNZCGP. I was struck by the major developments in ‘upscaling’ of general practice there over the last five years.

August, 2018

Je suis rentrée début août d’un agréable voyage au Royal New Zealand College of GPs (RNZCGP) où j’avais été invitée à la conférence annuelle et, en chemin, j’ai également rendu visite à nos collègues de Singapour.

August, 2018

A principios de agosto volví de un viaje que disfruté mucho durante el cual pude visitar el Real Colegio de Médicos de Familia de Nueva Zelanda (Royal New Zealand College of GPs, RNZCGP), tras aceptar su invitación para asistir al Congreso anual y, de vuelta a casa, también pasé a visitar a nuestros colegas en Singapur.

August, 2018

A couple of years ago I wrote on WONCA membership, and thought that I would return to this, to update members on which organizations have been admitted to WONCA membership in this biennium. WONCA now boasts over 130 Member Organizations in around 150 countries and territories and represents some 600,000 family doctors globally.