WONCA News

April, 2013

April saw me in South Asia, and a visit to Delhi to take part in the National Conference on Family Medicine and Primary Care, organised by the Academy of Family Physicians of India (AFPI).

April, 2013

WONCA Europe Five Star Doctor 2013 is Dr Athanasios Symeonidis, of Greece.

April, 2013

The WONCA Working Party on Women in Family Medicine is offering bursaries to women (including young women GPs) to attend the Prague World Conference and preconference. Deadlien coming up soon.

April, 2013

Making health services adolescent friendly: developing national quality standards for adolescent friendly health services - a downloadable publication from the WHO

April, 2013

Prof Amanda Howe, Professor of Primary Care at the University of East Anglia, in the UK, reflects on a partnership with a group of doctors from Yemen who wanted to improve their curriculum.

April, 2013

The 2013 edition of the Vasco da Gama Movement's Junior Researcher Award will be given to three junior champions in family medicine research.

April, 2013

A video of interviews with young GPs from the 2012 Vienna preconference

April, 2013

El todo es más que la suma de sus partes. Algunas verdades es necesario repetirlas, a menudo usando un lenguaje diferente, hasta que las comprendemos mejor. En una reciente reunión para planificar un taller para médicos de familia en múltiples comorbilidades me acordé de ello.

April, 2013

Some truths need repeating, often using different language until we better understand. A recent meeting to plan a workshop for family doctors on multiple morbidities reminded me of this.

March, 2013

The conference venue is excellent, the keynote speakers are of the highest quality, the scientific programme is stimulating and Prague is juts a wonderful place to visit, especially in June, so we anticipate possibly the best WONCA World conference ever.