WONCA News

June, 2020

The WONCA Executive usually meets face to face twice a year, with monthly teleconferences in between each meeting. While the virtual meetings are useful to process normal business, we rely on the face to face meetings to discuss bigger, broader, issues of more complexity. Especially when some of those on Executive sit for only one two-year term, the face to face meetings are crucial to build understanding of the organization and of each other’s regions.

June, 2020

L'exécutif de WONCA se réunit généralement en face à face deux fois par an, avec des téléconférences mensuelles entre chaque réunion. Si les réunions virtuelles sont utiles pour traiter les affaires courantes, nous comptons sur les réunions en face à face pour discuter de questions plus importantes, plus vastes et plus complexes.

June, 2020

The Besrour Centre for Global Family Medicine (Besrour Centre) at the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) , thanks to the generous support of the CFPC’s Foundation for the Advancement of Family Medicine (FAFM), is seeking proposals for a Global COVID-19 pandemic innovation response for grants up to $50,000 Canadian dollars (CAD). More information in English (et en Français).

June, 2020

Countries in lockdown. Borders closed. Populations physically distancing. It seems like a mad, mad world – and yet the work of the organization must go on as best it can. I’d like to start this CEO column with my thanks to Dr Nongluck and her small team for their wonderful efforts to keep the Secretariat functioning, even as Bangkok was in significant shutdown.

June, 2020

El Ejecutivo de WONCA generalmente se reúne cara a cara dos veces al año, con teleconferencias mensuales entre cada una de las reuniones.

June, 2020

WONCA执行委员通常于每年召开两次实体会议，及每月的电话会议。尽管虚拟会议有助我们处理日常业务，但我们仍要依靠面对面的讨论，来探索更大更广、

June, 2020

Dr John Wynn-Jones is well known in WONCA circles and immediate past chair of the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice. He graciously agreed to write a guest column for WONCA News this month: Two painters and Two Doctors

May, 2020

WONCA-WHO Liaison person, Dr Viviana Martinez-Bianchi reports: the 73rd World Health Assembly (WHA73) was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic on May 18 and 19, 2020, with a reduced agenda dedicated only to the Pandemic response.

May, 2020

WONCA has launched a webinar series on COVID-19. Watch previous webinars online. Find out how to join the next WONCA webinar on Research coming on Sunday, 31 May at 10:00am UTC.

May, 2020

This year we decided to highlight a theme relevant to the challenges and the responsibilities of family doctors in the new global coronavirus outbreak. – “Family doctors on the front line - first in, last out." This report focuses on region videos and webinars.