WONCA News

December, 2013

Brasil es líder mundial en el tratamiento de la cobertura universal de salud a través de los equipos de medicina familiar. En noviembre, en una de las favelas (barrios marginales) de Río de Janeiro, tuve la oportunidad de reunirme con el médico de familia Euclides Colaço y sus colegas.

December, 2013

Brazil is a global leader in addressing universal health coverage through family medicine teams. In November, in one of the favelas (“shanty towns”) of Rio de Janeiro, I had the opportunity to meet with family doctor Euclides Colaço and his colleagues.

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.