WONCA News

April, 2018

When I attended the WONCA Iberoamerica region conference in Colombia in March, I also saw a new idea – different countries in the region all working together on programmes of work, and reporting their work in to the regional conference. This was used to inform delegates, but also to help the leaders in the Executive and the national country leaders in making their policies – useful for discussing issues with stakeholders.

April, 2018

WONCA East Mediterranean Region (EMR) has planned to meet different ministers of health in our region in order to promote and seek more support to the family medicine specialty. As the first step, delegates from WONCA EMR had a fruitful meeting with His Excellency Prof Mahmoud Al-Sheyyab, the Jordanian Minister of Health

April, 2018

James and Leslie Rourke are the recipients of the WONCA North America Region 5 Star Doctor Award 2017 and Dr Wilson took the opportunity of visiting their province of Newfoundland, to present the award. A joint nomination for the WONCA North America 5-Star Doctor may be unconventional.

April, 2018

The 2017 Ian McWhinney lecture by Dr Larry A. Green from the University of Colorado focused on personal doctoring. It explored whether or not people will have a personal physician anymore. The lecture has been published by Canadian Family Physician and translated into Spanish by Julio Ceitlin.

April, 2018

World Family Doctor Day comes again on May 19 - celebrate our special day this year. We have chosen as the key theme “Family doctors – leading the way to better health”. Access resources, see Taiwan's 2018 poster and a message from Canada.

April, 2018

WONCA has had an application for membership from the Association of Family Medicine of Tajikistan. Dr Greta Ross tells us more about the situation in Tajikistan. In 2017, Greta joined the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation’s Medical Education Reform project (MEP) in Tajikistan.

April, 2018

Prof Chris Dowrick, Chair of the WONCA Working Party on Mental Health (WWPMH) writes: This month I have information to share with you about conferences (one held inSouth America recently and the other to come in Krakow) and three publications, relevant to our working party.

April, 2018

President elect Dr Donald Li attended the 5th Cross Straits General Practice Society as officiating guest 30th March - 1st April 2018 in Nanning, China. The theme of the conference was “A New Era of General Practitioners”. The conference was attended by over 2500 general practitioners

March, 2018

This month, the CEO reminds everyone of the arrangements and timetable for Seoul, and encourages everyone to make their travel plans for an excellent event in a fascinating city. There are multiple events before a WONCA World conference - WONCA Executive, WONCA Regional Councils, WONCA World Council, WONCA Working Party meetings, Special Interest Groups meetings, Young Doctors' preconference. The culmination is the WONCA World conference.

March, 2018

He estado en dos congresos regionales – el de la Región del Mediterráneo Este, en Kuwait, y en la cumbre y el congreso de IberoAmérica, en Colombia – y también he visitado Algeria para asistir a la cumbre de alto nivel organizada por parte de la organización local miembro de WONCA. En Kuwait City, visitié la clínica Al-Yamouk,