WONCA News

June, 2016

Le mois dernier, j'ai rendu visite à des collègues de médecine familiale au Japon et en Indonésie, ce qui m'a permis de me faire une idée des défis confrontant le développement de la médecine familiale dans ces deux pays.

June, 2016

During the past months, the International Federation of Medical Student’s Associations (IFMSA) and WONCA’s Family Medicine 360º (FM360º) program have been collaborating in order to review the learning outcomes and create a checklist for the IFMSA Student’s Handbook for Professional Exchanges in Primary Care.

June, 2016

Greetings from the WONCA Special Interest Group (SIG) on Health Equity. For this edition, we take a glance at GPs at the Deep End, which has and continues to strive for health equity in the most deprived areas of Scotland. In Global Focus, we take a look at studies from Guatemala, Sweden to India.

June, 2016

Combating Stigma is a web-based course created by a partnership of organizations. it is available online free of charge.

June, 2016

Presented as a joint workshop from VdGM-EURIPA at WONCA Europe 2016 conference in Copenhagen this month - the aim was to get doctors thinking about ways in which they could influence policy changes to improve care for their patients and their own working conditions.

June, 2016

Noticias semFYC Magazine has published a short video about the European Project KRISTINA in which the main responsible of the project’s objectives and achievements have been interviewed.

June, 2016

The legacy of the WONCA Europe 2016 conference is a result of collaboration between the Host Organizing Committee, WONCA Europe Council and WONCA Europe Executive board. European Family Doctors call for Joint Action with Heads and Hearts!

June, 2016

Dr Jo Scott-Jones of New Zealand and Dr Kate Dawson of Scotland (NHS) write about telehealth - Following the lead of the USA and Australia three years ago we developed a Rural Health Alliance in New Zealand, bringing together 40 different organisations that have an interest in the health and wellbeing of rural communities.

June, 2016

Un congreso en particular llevado a cabo en la idílica isla de Tobago, del 14 a 19 de mayo 2016, fue único en mezclar los elementos necesarios para agrupar profesionales locales al tiempo que inculcaba un sentido de comunidad en un público de varios países. Esta reunión combinó la reunión anual de la isla y el Foro Polaris WONCA

June, 2016

A particular conference in the idyllic island of Tobago from May 14th to 19th, 2016 was unique in blending the elements needed to engage the local professional body while instilling a sense of community in a wider audience from various countries. The meeting served to combine the island’s annual meeting and the WONCA Polaris Forum.