WONCA News

December, 2013

Hong Kong anniversary celebrations, young doctors and ... we come to the end of the first full year of the WONCA Secretariat in Bangkok. It has been a busy and eventful year, with our first Executive and Council meetings, but we survived, and I’m sure will go from strength to strength.

December, 2013

Dr Shabir Moosa writes - "Hamba Kahle Tata" We are privileged to have lived in the life and times of Nelson Mandela or Tata Madiba, as he was fondly called.

December, 2013

In preparation for the main keynotes, Dr Peter A Sloane interviews Prof Job Metsemakers, President of WONCA Europe, Prof Per Kallestrup, founder of the Hippokrates Exchange Programme, and Dr Luisa Pettigrew, member at large of the WONCA World

December, 2013

This year’s The Network: Towards Unity for Health (TUFH) conference was held from November 16-20 in Ayutthaya, Thailand.

December, 2013

At the recent WONCA world conference in Prague, WONCA Europe awarded a number of bursaries to assist with attendance. Read how these bursaries help our colleagues reach their aspirations.

December, 2013

Abstract submission has been extended for a short time for both the WONCA Rural Health conference coming up in Gramado Brazil in April and also for the Young Doctors' forum coming up in Barcelona in February.

December, 2013

The most important event we are focused on is organizing the V Family Medicine Summit (V Cumbre Iberoamericana de Medicina Familiar), that will be held in Quito, April, 11 and 12, 2014.

December, 2013

WONCA Executive is pleased to announced that Dr Raman Kumar of India has been selected to join them as the Young Doctor representative for the 2013-16 triennium.

December, 2013

Prof Ian Couper of South Africa and Past President WONCA Working Party on Rural Health writes this month's Rural Round-up.

December, 2013

Professor Amanda Howe, our new President–Elect, said in her speech at the WONCA Council that she would help with policy messages. She now takes up that challenge with her regular Policy Bites column - this being her third column.