WONCA News

November, 2017

Greetings again from Bangkok. This month I’ll report on the meeting of the 2016-18 Executive, which took place in Bangkok on 29th and 30th October 2017 - this was the second full meeting of the 2016-18 WONCA Executive and the last meeting for Prof Michael Kidd.

November, 2017

​During the third Vasco da Gama Movement (VdGM) Forum, held in Jerusalem between 14 and 16 September 2016, the VdGM Family Violence Group has presented a workshop in collaboration with the WONCA SIG-FV focusing on how cultural diversity can play a role on the disclosure and follow-up of gender violence.

November, 2017

Paola Rava Dellepiane, WONCA Working Party on the Environment member writes more on the issue of WONCA conferences as a very favorable setting to promote the issue of Planetary Health and increase the general awareness for it.

November, 2017

My colleagues Professor Nobutaro Ban (Japan), Dr Eva Irene Maglonzo (Philippines), Victor Ng (Canada), Hashmet Parveen (Brunei) and Chandramani Thuraisingham (Malaysia) joined me to run sessions on (i) The Undergraduate (UG)Curriculum (ii) Continuous Professional Development and (iii) Formative Assessment.

November, 2017

Kim Yu MD from the USA, is one amazing colleague. In just one week after the recent hurricane devastated Puerto Rico, Kim took to Facebook and drove a fundraising effort to help her collegues in Puerto Rico, raising over $62,000 from all the chapters of the American Academy of Family Physicians in just over one week,

November, 2017

Uno de los muchos retos de ser médica de familia es el hecho de intentar reconciliar las diferentes visiones del mundo. Como médica de familia, la tensión se produce a menudo entre mis propias creencias acerca de lo que es mejor para el paciente, lo que puede hacer posible el sistema y su visión del mundo.

November, 2017

La présidente visite La Liban. La clinique Tahaddi avoisine l’un des principaux camps de réfugiés palestiniens et apporte ses services sanitaires à une population vivant essentiellement dans des bidonvilles. Plus de 65% de ces patients sont des réfugiés syriens et les 35 % restant sont des résidents libanais locaux.

November, 2017

WONCA has had a Working Party on Rural Practice for many years. Their vision is “health for all rural people around the world”, and, as for WONCA as a whole, one of the key aims of their advocacy is to ensure governments recognise the importance of family medicine and its rural and remote workforce. It is therefore a source of celebration that Prof Paul Worley, a member of the WONCA Rural Working Party, has been appointed as the first Rural Health Commissioner of Australia

November, 2017

Desde hace muchos años, WONCA tiene un Grupo de Trabajo en Medicina Rural, y este es muy activo – cada año organiza un Congreso mundial, mantiene intensas comunicaciones y presencia en las redes sociales, también tiene una relación muy especial con los Movimientos de Jóvenes Médicos de Familia (Rural Seeds), y ofrece recursos como los recogidos en la Guía Educacional de Medicina Rural. Su lema es el de “salud para la población de los medios rurales en todo el mundo”. Es por esa razón que debemos celebrar el hecho de que el Profesor Paul Worley, miembro del Grupo de Trabajo en Medicina Rural, ha sido elegido como el Primer Comisario de Salud Rural de Australia.

November, 2017

Prof Christopher Dowrick, Chair of WONCA Working Party on Mental Health, reports: Members of our working party continue to be busy, all round the world. In the Asia-Pacific region, Weng Chin has successful launched our new guidance on Non-drug interventions for common mental health problems during the Pattaya conference this week. I am delighted with this document, and commend it to you.