WONCA News

November, 2012

The following items were added to the resources section of the WONCA website during November

November, 2012

Dr Donald Li, President of WONCA Asia Pacific region will become the President of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine.

November, 2012

Le CMFC présente les membres du nouveau comité de direction, incluant la nouvelle présidente du CMFC, Dre Marie-Dominique Beaulieu de Montréal, en Québec.

November, 2012

CFPC introduce the members of the new Executive Committee, including the College's new President, Dr Marie-Dominique Beaulieu from Montreal, Quebec.

November, 2012

The PMNCH 2012 Report - Analysing Progress on Commitments to the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health reviews progress on commitments made by 220 stakeholders to the UN Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health.

November, 2012

Durante noviembre, la nueva oficina de la Secretaría de WONCA en Bangkok ha estado ocupada poniéndose a punto y asumiendo los deberes que se traspasaban desde la Secretaría del equipo de Singapur. La editora de WONCA ha entrevistado al nuevo Gerente, el Dr Garth Manning, sobre los progresos en la oficina de Bangkok.

November, 2012

Bursaries to aid with funding to attend the WONCA World conference in Prague are now available to applicants worldwide. The bursaries are are being sponsored by WONCA Europe.

November, 2012

New WONCA CEO, Dr Garth Manning, is encouraged by the number of individual family doctors seeking to join WONCA as direct members. He also writes of setting up the new WONCA secretariat in Bangkok.

November, 2012

Rendez-Vous 2012 brought together the WONCA World Rural Health conference and The Network: Towards Unity for Health annual conference, as well as the next NOSM/Flinders conference on Community Engaged Medical Education, the Consortium for Longitudinal Integrated Curricula, and the Training for Health Equity Network. More than 850 delegates from nearly fifty countries and six continents attended.

November, 2012

The Wonca Editor recently had the opportunity to interview the new WONCA CEO, Dr Garth Manning and find out about his new staff and first impressions of WONCA.