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  • About WONCA
    • About WONCA

      WONCA is an unusual, yet convenient acronym comprising the first five initials of the World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians.

      WONCA's short name is World Organization of Family Doctors.

      • WONCA in brief
      • Policy Statements
      • Working Parties, Special Interest Grps
      • Regions and Member Organizations
      • Executive Committee
      • Statutory Committees
      • WONCA Secretariat
      • WONCA By Laws
      • Annual Report
  • News
    • Latest News from WONCA

      Previous Newsletters

      • WONCA APR Council statement - May 09, 2025
      • Announcing the 2025 Atai Omoruto Scholarship Award Recipients - May 08, 2025
      • Reflecting on Organizational Equity in WONCA - April 28, 2025
      • From the President: Tradition in India - April 22, 2025
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      Categories

      • President's Messages
      • From the Headquarters
      • Feature Stories
      • WONCA and WHO News
      • Conference News and Reports
      • In My View ...
      • Working Party News
      • Special Interest Group News
      • Young Doctors Movements
      • Regional News
      • Member Organization News
      • Resources for Family Doctors
      • Organisational news and Governance
      • Announcements and Updates
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  • Conferences
    • WONCA Conferences

      08 May-11 May, 2025

      WONCA East Mediterranean Region Conference 2025

      Tangier, Morocco.

      17 Sep-21 Sep, 2025

      WONCA World Conference 2025

      Lisbon, Portugal

      10 Sep-11 Sep, 2026

      9th WONCA Africa Region Conference 2026

      Gaborone, Botswana

      WONCA Endorsed Events

      Member Organization Events

  • WONCA Regions
    • WONCA Regions

      Region Information:

      • Collaborative Organizations
      • Africa
      • Asia Pacific
      • East Mediterranean
      • Europe
      • Iberoamericana-CIMF
      • North America
      • South Asia

      Member Organizations:

      • Africa region
      • Asia Pacific region
      • East Mediterranean region
      • Europe region
      • Iberoamericana-CIMF region
      • North America region
      • South Asia region
      • Collaborative Organization Members
      • Academic Members
  • WONCA Groups
    • Groups and Committees

      Working Parties

      • Education
      • Ethics and Professionalism
      • eHealth
      • Mental Health
      • Planetary Health
      • Quality & Safety
      • Research
      • Rural Practice
      • International Classification (WICC)
      • Women & Family Medicine

      Special Interest Groups

      • Adolescent & Young Adult Care
      • Ageing and Health
      • Cancer & Palliative care
      • Complexities in Health
      • Emergency Medicine
      • Emerging Practice Models for Family Medicine
      • Dermatology
      • Health Equity
      • Indigenous & Minority Groups Health Issues
      • Integrative Medicine
      • LGBTQ Health
      • Non-communicable diseases
      • Point of care testing
      • Policy Advocacy
      • Quaternary Prevention & Overmedicalization
      • Family Violence
      • Migrant Care, Int Health & Travel Medicine
      • Workers Health

      Young Doctors' Movements

  • Member Interest
    • Member Interest

      For Individual Doctors

      • WONCA Project Labs
      • Become a WONCA member

      World Family Doctor Day

      Clinical Resources

      Latest News

      Global Jobs

      Notices

      • Professor Michael Boland - RIP March 25, 2020
      • "BJGP Open" Editorial Board
      • Yvonne van Leeuwen (1951-2019)
        Vasco da Gama Movement founder
      • Vale Dr Julian Tudor Hart
      • Prof Michael (Micky) Weingarten : (1947-2018)
      • Dr Shigeaki HINOHARA : 1911-2017
        Japan's most eminent physician
      • Dr Fons SIPS : 1940 - 2016
        Vasco da Gama Movement founder
      • Prof Janko Kersnik - 1960-2015
        WONCA Europe Honorary Secretary
      • Dr David GAME:
        President of WONCA 1983-86
      • Roger Rosenblatt M.D., M.P.H., M.F.R. 1945-2014
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      WONCA People

      • Featured Family Doctors
      • Featured WONCA leaders
      • Past WONCA officers and other profiles
      • Rural Heroes

      WONCA Awards

      • WONCA Fellowship
      • WONCA Honorary Life Direct Members
      • WONCA Five Star Doctors
      • WONCA foundation award
      • Montegut Global Scholar Programme
      • Taiwan Family Medicine Research Award
      • Atai Omorutu Scholarship Award
      • Donald Li YDM Global Scholarship
  • International Issues
    • International Issues

      A collection of feeds, publications, and alerts from third parties including the WHO.

      WONCA - WHO Liaison

      • WONCA - WHO liaison background
      • WHO publications of particular relevance to Primary Care
      • WHO Website News
      • WHO Website Publications

      The Barbara Starfield Collection

      Professor Barbara Starfield championed the value and need of strong primary health care systems worldwide. This collection emphasizes the case for primary care and includes a number of Barbara Starfield's own articles as well as other key related material.

  • Resources for GPs/FPs
    • WONCA Accreditation

      Clinical Resources

      • MDD Minds
      • A-Z topic listing
      • Goodfellow Gems
      • COVID-19 resources
      • Journals of interest
      • Submit a Resource
      • PEARLS
      • Evidence & guidelines
      • Downloadable Apps
      • WONCA Publications
      • WONCA Guidebook
      • Occupational Health
      • Databases (search the literature)

      Barbara Starfield Collection

      Submit a Resource

Clinical Resources: Evidence Based Medicine

Best Bets (UK) rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions PRODIGY (formerly Clinical Knowledge Summaries) The Cochrane Library

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COVID-19 Resources

WONCA webinars, journal links and more

WONCA position statements

WONCA statements on a variety of issues

PEARLS

577 Individual behavioural counselling helps people to quit smoking 575 Antioxidant vitamin and mineral supplements may be beneficial in age-related macular degeneration 574 Oral antifungals effective for toenail onychomycosis 570 Decision aids beneficial for people facing health treatment or screening decisions 569 Computer-generated reminders on paper benefit quality of care

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