WONCA News

June, 2015

Nagwa Nashat Hegazy was a Montegut Scholar attending the recent WONCA East Mediterranean region congress was held from 30 April to 2 May 2015 in Dubai city in the UAE. This edited report written by Nagwa is reproduced with the permission of the American Board of Family Medicine Foundation (ABFM-F) who provide the scholarship.

June, 2015

So what does the deep commitment to “family” mean in our title? As I sat in the late nights in a hospital ward following the birth, I thought of witness, watching and waiting, wonder.

June, 2015

This month we make a special rural feature in WONCA News. In April, the WONCA world rural health conference was held in Dubrovnik and our very active WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice formally met. The WWPRP is chaired by Dr John Wynn-Jones of Wales and he and Dr Jo Scott-Jones of New Zealand have fueled such a wave of enthusiasm from working party members that we have decided to make a special rural feature in this month's WONCA News.

June, 2015

Veronika Rasic, a family medicine trainee, from Croatia and a member of the Vasco da Gama Movement for young doctors writes on her experience with the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice in Croatia recently. She is now looking to connect with other young rural enthusiasts.

June, 2015

I started the month in Seoul, South Korea, attending the international conference of ICOH and I also met with some of the Host Organizing Committee for the 2018 WONCA World Conference.

June, 2015

At the WONCA Rural health conference in Dubrovnik the new Working Party on Rural Practice’s resource page was launched to augment the existing webpage on WONCA's website. The new resource page will provide an up to date working space

June, 2015

A great conference leaves an impression that lasts, a great health conference creates something new that impacts on patient outcomes. On this measure, Dubrovnik was a great conference. Jo Scott-Jones reports.

June, 2015

Dr Noreen Lineen-Curtis, a general practitioner from Achill, County Mayo, Ireland says that life as a rural GP on the West coast of Ireland is never, ever dull. Read on to find out why ..

June, 2015

Would you like to extend your travel to Turkey before the WONCA Europe conference in October? Primary health care visits have been announced as well as an extension to Early bird registration and BRITE submission deadlines.

June, 2015

This is the story of a doctor’s experience in the worst case disaster situation, it is a story unsung bravery and of the courage staff at Jiri Hospital, Nepal, displayed during and after the disaster - Dr Roshan Khatri, Medical Superintendent at Jiri Hospital, Dolakha district east of Kathmandu writes.