WONCA News

January, 2018

Que nous parlions d’amour, de nouvelles opportunités ou de traditions et festivals, nous savons que la vie, suivant son cycle annuel, est à la fois prévisible et incertaine. Pour la plupart d’entre nous, nous revisitons l’année à sa fin et sommes reconnaissants de n’avoir subi ni chagrin ni perte majeure et reconnaissons les joies et les peines de ceux qui nous entourent. C’est un moment poignant quand on pense à tous ceux qui sont sans abris ou foyers ...

January, 2018

Tanto si hablamos del amor, de las nuevas oportunidades, como de las tradiciones y las festividades, sabemos que la vida con su ciclo anual es tan predecible como incierta. Muchos de nosotros, miramos atrás y vemos un año y que ha llegado a su fin y nos sentimos agradecidos porque no hayan sucedido más desastres; y reconocemos las felicidades y las tristezas de todos aquellos de nuestro entorno. En estos días es conmovedor pensar en todas aquellas personas que no tiene casa ni corazones ...

January, 2018

There are a number of new resources now added on the WONCA website.Some have been provided by WONCA Working Parties and Special Interest Groups and others are more Goodfellow Gems and PEARLS.

January, 2018

This will, of course, be a busy year for us, with the World Council and conference scheduled for Seoul, Korea, in October. Plans are already well advanced, and I wanted to use this month’s column to promote a number of WONCA awards and bursaries which are available to assist attendance at the world conference.

January, 2018

Prof Maria van den Muijsenbergh, chair of WONCA SIG on migrant care, international health and travel medicine and on behalf of Guus Busser, new co-chair of the SIG, gives a new year update.

January, 2018

Dr Veena Kumari was a 2017 Montegut Scholarship winner for the WONCA South Asia Region. She has recently taken up a new job as an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine in Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan. Dr Kumari attended the South Asia region conference in Nepal from 24-26 November 2017 as well as The Spice Route pre conference. Here she reports on her experience.

January, 2018

Amanda Howe escribre acerca del Kit Estudiantil para la Responsabilidad Social en las Escuelas Médicas". Foto (arriba) Amanda firmando el MOU con la Federación Internacional de Asociaciones de Estudiantes de Medicina (IFMSA) en Tanzania, en 2017.

January, 2018

Amanda Howe writes about The International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA) and the Training for Health Equity Network (‘THEnet’) recently published ‘Students’ Toolkit for Social Accountability in Medical Schools’. the ‘Students’ Toolkit for Social Accountability in Medical Schools’. Amanda writes "As family doctors, we have an important role to play in supporting the move towards delivering training for health professionals that improves social accountability."

January, 2018

Dr Pratyush Kumar, well known energetic leader of the WONCA South Asia Rural group (WoRSA) and Organising Secretary for the coming WONCA World Rural health conference in India has developed a health calendar for the new year. "I wanted to highlight gender equality out of the SDGs (January), as most of these diseases get lots of coverage, but gender equality as a health issue is much less discussed, although its vital to transform healthcare.".

January, 2018

Anna Stavdal of Norway, President of WONCA Europe, is interviewed by Pere Vilanova of the Spanish Society of Family Medicine, semFYC. Topics include Family medicine in Norway and Europe and the recent WONCA Europe statements on refugees and planetary health. This is an edited English version of that interview.