WONCA News

April, 2016

It gives me immense pleasure to inform you regarding generous support displayed towards encouraging young doctors of the South Asia region, through WONCA South Asia region’s Young Doctors’ Movement, The Spice Route, by the MRCGP INT board. The Spice Route movement members have been offered an annual support up to $ 2500 towards various activities.

March, 2016

This was my 8th visit to the People’s Republic of China since I became WONCA president in May 2013. WONCA has a long history of supporting our colleagues in China in the development of family medicine, dating back to the work commenced in the 1980s by past WONCA president, Dr Peter Lee, from Hong Kong.

March, 2016

'The Universal Doctor’ is presented an example of the power of doctors’ stories. We are seeking more stories from family doctors from around the world to contribute to a new edition on humanity, human rights and resilience.

March, 2016

Who are the speakers for WONCA Rio? Many concepts and topics related to the development of family medicine will be discussed, such as quaternary prevention, "overdiagnosis", electronic health records, management of common health problems, quality assessment, the pre-test probability, system management of health and organization, etc

March, 2016

The Indian Association of Occupational Health has just published a book, titled "Basic Occupational Health Service for Informal Industry: Manual for Primary Care Providers". The book is edited by well-known WONCA leader, Dr Ramnik Parekh and Dr Suvarna Moti.

March, 2016

This month the CEO anticipates his coming attendance at a number of WONCA conferences and meetings. He also reminds us that World Family Doctor Day comes on May 19 and it certainly time to start planning activities. This year's suggested theme is smoking cessation and there are a number of resources available.

March, 2016

What is your Member Organization planning will this year's World Family Doctor Day? This year we’d especially like to highlight smoking cessation. Read more here.

March, 2016

Ulrika Sandén is a social worker pursuing doctoral research of cancer processes at the Ingvar Kamprad Design Centre, Lund University, Sweden - meet her in Copenhagen! Remember: final deadline for very late abstracts is 31 March

March, 2016

The Bangladesh Academy of Family Physicians reports on recent activities including the annual conference, the WONCA South Asia Region conference held recently in Colombo, the Academy CME programs, the family medicine diploma course and finally the coming WONCA world conference in Rio.

March, 2016

Dr Enrique Falceto de Barros, Pro-Tem Chair WONCA Working Party on the Environment, message to members of the working party encouraging their participation in the WONCA World conference coming to Rio in November this year.