WONCA News

September, 2012

The Vasco da Gama young doctors' movement held a large range of activities at the recent WONCA Europe conference held in Vienna. Prizes, a play, presentations and above all innovations featured.

September, 2012

The closing keynote address for the WONCA Vienna conference was replaced with a play, written and directed by Dr Carl Steylaerts of Belgium. A video of the performance is now available for online viewing. The WOnca Vienna conference site now hosts an extensive gallery of photos of the conference.

September, 2012

The Wonca Asia Pacific 2012 conference was held in Jeju from 24-27 May 2012 with a council meeting on 23 May.

September, 2012

WONCA 2013 Prague world conference is offering young doctors from a specified list of countries the chance to apply for a bursary to assist financially with attendance costs.

September, 2012

New resources added to the website this month

September, 2012

WONCA's new website has a large selection of resources for family doctors. There is an A to Z listing of clinical resources. As this is still under development, family doctors around the world are invited to submit their favourite resource.

September, 2012

The WONCA president, Richard Roberts, reports on his trip to Bilbao, Spain ... I began this column at cruising altitude en route from Frankfurt to Chicago. While I enjoy my travels, there is always something special about the return home. This time it was even more so. This time I was returning as a patient.

September, 2012

Professor Amanda Howe, RCGP Honorary Secretary, is a key note speaker for the WONCA world conference coming to Prague in 2013. She seeks to engage family doctors by encouraging them to post their own stories on Doctors' health and wellbeing on the WONCA website.

September, 2012

This year the Royal College of General Practitioners celebrates its 60th anniversary. There is much excitement as they are about to move into a new building in Euston Square, London and have taken a global approach to their coming annual conference, in Glasgow, in October.

September, 2012

Dr Pavlo Kolesnyk, from Ukraine, reports on being the second European Montegut scholar. His scholarship enabled him to attend the WONCA Europe Vienna conference in July 2012.