WONCA News

May, 2017

Depuis mon dernier rapport, il y a eu la Conférence rurale de WONCA à Cairns en Australie, l’Assemblée mondiale de la santé à Genève et la Journée mondiale du médecin de famille. Nous avons également continué le travail du comité directeur en diverses régions, nous avons rencontré quelques nouveaux membres (bienvenue à l’Indonésie dans la famille WONCA!), et nous avons reçu des nouvelles de nombreuses régions où d’incroyables nouveaux développements en médecine familiale prennent place.

May, 2017

We are delighted to invite you to the 22nd WONCA Europe Conference that will be held in Prague, Czech Republic from June 28 to July 1, 2017. Regular registration deadline; practice visits; programme details and more.

May, 2017

Two Australian medical students, Thomas Currie (6th Year Medicine, James Cook University) and William Moorhead (4th Year Medicine, University of Queensland) – ‘Tom’ and ‘Billy’ attended the WONCA World Rural health conference in Cairns in early May. They provide their perspectives on the conference.

May, 2017

It is now only five months until the WONCA Asia Pacific Region Conference will come to Pattaya - from November 1-4, 2017. Deadline for early bird registration and for abstract submission – June 30, 2017

May, 2017

The CEO discusses this November's WONCA Asia Pacific regional conference coming to Thailand and the 2018 WONCA World conference to be held in South Korea,

May, 2017

If you missed this amazing event, now is your opportunity to see our highlights reel! Thanks to everyone who attended the 14th World Rural Health Conference. It's hard to pick a highlight - there's so many to choose from! So here's some stand out events from the four days of conferencing.

May, 2017

The European Funded Project KRISTINA will develop and present a virtual assistant in the field of healthcare that will enable getting over language barriers when dealing with users and, therefore, its priority application will be to attend migrants who are struggling to overcome linguistic barriers.

May, 2017

On the sidelines of the WONCA EMR conference that took place on 2nd-4th of March 2017 in Abu-Dhabi, UAE, the Al Razi Young Doctors’ Movement had the honor to present, on the second day, a workshop titled “Social Media and Physicians: A good pair but guidelines for use needed”.

May, 2017

May 19th is our special day of the year, where we remind ourselves and the rest of the world that our work deserves recognition and celebration... I hope you will all be proud of the great work you do for patients, and feel part of our big family doctor community, as we mark the occasion together.

May, 2017

The WONCA Working Party on the Environment has developed the WONCA Statement on Planetary Health and Sustainable Development Goals which was endorsed by the WONCA Executive in April 2017.