WONCA News

October, 2020

The Special Interest Group on Family Violence (SIG FV) continues to work, expanding our global connections to systematically support family doctors to address family violence in practice and policy. Our current and future activities are structured under six main strategies: Connect, Resource, Support, Educate, Communicate, Evaluate.

October, 2020

The annual report of the Working Party on Research who have managed numerous activities despite COVID-19

October, 2020

WICC was represented at many WONCA Region Conferences presenting posters or holding workshops on classification topics like ICPC and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). The future: WICC will be putting all of its energy into the development of ICPC-3.

October, 2020

The WONCA Special Interest Group (SIG) on Adolescent and Young Adult Care will hold a webinar in the WONCA COVID-19 webinar series on 8 November. Also find out more about the SIG in their annual report

October, 2020

Dr David Ponka écrit. David est médecin de famille à Ottawa, au Canada, et directeur du Centre Besrour pour la médecine familiale mondiale du Collège des médecins de famille du Canada. Il a trois filles qui sont maintenant de retour à l’école après avoir obtenu un résultat négatif au test de dépistage de la COVID-19.

October, 2020

​Chaque sondage et discussion menés auprès de nos organisations membres sur le rôle le plus important que WONCA peut jouer en leur nom nous appelle à une plus grande implication auprès de l'OMS. Nos membres veulent que nous utilisions l'influence de nos plus de 500 000 adhérents afin d’accroître la visibilité et la reconnaissance de la médecine familiale.

October, 2020

The joint WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice (Rural WONCA) and Toward Unity for Health (TUFH) Institute Series is being launched as part of the 17th Wonca World Rural Health Conference over four months starting 16th October with the conference opening ceremony.

October, 2020

A perspective from Dr David Ponka. David is a family physician in Ottawa, Canada, and the Director of the Besrour Centre for Global Family Medicine at the College of Family Physicians of Canada. He has three daughters who are now back to school after testing negative for COVID-19. Une traduction en français est disponible.

October, 2020

Education for Primary Care: Issue 31:5 is now on line with the usual wide range of articles. Free access for a month is available for an article on “The design and delivery of a social prescribing scheme by medical students in general practice.”

October, 2020

WONCA is pleased to join as an inaugural member of Allies Improving PHC, an exciting alliance of global and local organizations committed to unlocking the full promise of primary health care (PHC) on the road to health for all.