WONCA News

April, 2012

Website progress, World Family Doctor Day, Also in this issue, Conferences coming up, Academic advertisements.

April, 2012

The Montegut Global Scholars Program (MGSP) was established by the American Board of Family Medicine Foundation (ABFM-F), in April 2010. It was named in honor of Alain Montegut, MD, a member of the Board of Directors of the ABFM from 2005 to 2010 and WONCA North America region president from 2007 to 2010.

April, 2012

The Vasco da Gama Movement (VdGM) is pleased to announce that the winners of this year's Hippokrates Exchange and Carosino Prizes are...

April, 2012

This year’s WONCA Europe conference is fast approaching. The conference is being held in Vienna from July 4-7. In February WONCA Europe’s Executive Committee met with the host organising committee (HOC) at the Hotel Regina in Vienna to discuss final preparations. As the title “the art and science of general practice / family medicine” suggests, art is playing a prominent role at the congress.

April, 2012

EURIPA 3rd Rural Health Forum Education and Training for Rural Practice to be held from May 11-13, 2012 will now be held at the Island of Pag, Croatia.

April, 2012

The 2012 spring meeting of EGPRN will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from May 10–13, 2012. The theme of the meeting is Quality improvement in the care of chronic disease in family practice: the contribution of education and research.

April, 2012

Prof Allyn Walsh has been a family physician in Canada for close to 35 years. Her favourite quote describing the nature of this work comes from Sir William Osler, a great clinician and medical teacher.

April, 2012

Prof Michael Klinkman MD MS, is a Michigan native who has spent most of his life serving the people of his home state. He is first and foremost a practicing family physician, with an active part-time practice in Ann Arbor where he has served his patients for over 20 years.

April, 2012

Rendez-Vous 2012 co-chairs, Sue Berry and Kaat De Backer welcome the recent news that Dr Timothy G Evans has graciously accepted the invitation as key note speaker at our upcoming conference. His inspirational delivery will open the conference and be sure to stimulate thoughts and generate discussions throughout the days.

April, 2012

Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization made the key-note address at the 15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, held in Singapore in March 2012. The address is titled “Galvanizing global action towards a tobacco-free world” and an edited version is reproduced here.