WONCA News

September, 2016

As the President of WONCA East Mediterranean Region, it gives me great pleasure and honor to invite you to Fourth WONCA East Mediterranean Region Family Medicine Congress which will be held during 2-4 March 2017 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

September, 2016

Have you heard about the "Rural Health Stories" set up by a partnership of WONCA Rural South Asia (WoRSA) and the World Rural Medicine Students Network. This month we note that WONCA’s President Elect, Prof Amanda Howe has submitted a very lovely poem "Human Kindness".

September, 2016

The Cook Islands Fellowship in General Practice training program aims to create a workforce of well-trained family doctors to serve the future health care needs of the people of the Cook Islands, and is part of a wonderful collaboration between the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education in the Cook Islands, the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners and New Zealand’s University of Otago.

August, 2016

WHO is conducting a global survey on the use of computed tomography (CT) in asymptomatic individuals for individual health assessment to gather information on the current status of this practice, and results are to be presented in Rio.

August, 2016

Sugiero que podríamos hacer un mejor uso con la gran cantidad de recurso de nuestros miembros. Podríamos tener una mayor cantidad de “grandes conversaciones” focalizadas en algunos de los temas clave para nuestra disciplina.

August, 2016

The College of Family Medicine Pakistan has initiated its research cell. The College shall be training and supporting its members all over the country for primary care research projects.

August, 2016

El programa formativo de la Comunidad de las Islas Cook de Práctica Generalista tiene la voluntad de crear un personal de médicos de familia con una buena formación para dar cobertura a las futuras necesidades de la Asistencia Sanitaria de la población de las Islas Cook, y forma parte de una estrecha colaboración entre el Ministerio de Sanidad y el Ministerio de Educación de las Islas Cook, el Real Colegio de Nueva Zelanda de Médicos Generalistas, y la Universidad de Nueva Zelanda de Otago.

August, 2016

Le programme de formation de l'Association de médecine générale des Iles Cook vise à créer une main d'oeuvre de médecins de famille bien formés pour servir les futurs besoins en soins de santé des habitants des Iles Cook et représente une excellente collaboration entre le Ministère de la santé et le Ministère de l'éducation des Iles Cook, le Royal College of General Practitioners de Nouvelle Zélande, ainsi que l'université néo-zélandaise d'Otago.

August, 2016

Well known WONCA identity and past chair of the Working Party on Mental Health, Prof Gabriel Ivbijaro MBE is now President of the World Federation for Mental Health, and has a new blog in the Huffington Post. His latest is reproduced here courtesy of the Huffington Post.

August, 2016

The preliminary program for the WONCA World conference being held in Rio in early November is now online. Program at a glance is listed in this item.