Announcements and Updates

November, 2014

The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada has announced a new award named after Dr Charles Boelen - the International social accountability award. Applications extended until December 10.

October, 2014

Have you ever thought of attending a WONCA conference? Maybe you have been to many? Regardless, 2015 brings a variety of events to choose from, and spread all around the world - Croatia, Taiwan, Uruguay, Turkey, UAE, Bangladesh, Ghana.

September, 2014

The Montegut Global Scholars Program was established by the American Board of Family Medicine Foundation in 2010. The program will provide a scholarship for one family physician from each of the seven WONCA regions to aid their attendance at their respective regional WONCA meetings in 2015.

September, 2014

This Research Award is made possible by a generous donation from the Chinese Taipei Association of Family Medicine, to support three junior and emerging researchers to travel to present their paper at the 2015 WONCA Asia Pacific Region Conference

August, 2014

The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada has announced a new award named after Dr Charles Boelen - the International social accountability award. Applications close on October 31.

July, 2014

Doctors from both South Asia and Asia Pacific Regions are eligible to apply for a scholarship to attend the 2015 meeting of the society

July, 2014

More PEARLS have been added this month: - PEARLS are an independent product of the Cochrane primary care group and are meant for educational use and not to guide clinical care. Find out more ...

June, 2014

The annual EURACT course for family medicine teachers at all levels will be held again at Bled in Slovenia 23 – 27 September. T

April, 2014

This year we want to encourage even more organizations to celebrate in appropriate style on 19th May. We would love Member Organisations to tell us in advance of their plans – so that we can promote at least some in WONCA News

April, 2014

World Health day is coming up on April 7. The theme is 'small bite : big threat' This is also the first day of World Health Worker week.