Conference News and Reports

June, 2016

The legacy of the WONCA Europe 2016 conference is a result of collaboration between the Host Organizing Committee, WONCA Europe Council and WONCA Europe Executive board. European Family Doctors call for Joint Action with Heads and Hearts!

May, 2016

In Copenhagen in June we are delighted to present: Katherine Rouleau, associate professor with the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto – giving a keynote on Inequality in health and specific patient groups

April, 2016

We are delighted to present the first edition of the ”programme at a glance” for WONCA Europe 2016. We received a record-large number of session proposals and abstracts. Based on external reviews and a thorough assessment by the energetic Scientific Committee, we are proud of the result.

March, 2016

Who are the speakers for WONCA Rio? Many concepts and topics related to the development of family medicine will be discussed, such as quaternary prevention, "overdiagnosis", electronic health records, management of common health problems, quality assessment, the pre-test probability, system management of health and organization, etc

March, 2016

Ulrika Sandén is a social worker pursuing doctoral research of cancer processes at the Ingvar Kamprad Design Centre, Lund University, Sweden - meet her in Copenhagen! Remember: final deadline for very late abstracts is 31 March

March, 2016

Our next WONCA World conference is coming to Rio in November. Discount registration closes on April 30. The Host Organising committee has released details of abstracts received.

March, 2016

Great news: The participants of WONCA Copenhagen will be able to train skills that are important to the daily work of a GP. We have created a “Skills lab” in an open area in the conference center.

February, 2016

​June and WONCA Europe in Copenhagen is getting closer :-) In Copenhagen in June we are delighted to present: Professor Martin Roland, University of Cambridge – giving a keynote on The future of primary care “What is primary care going to look like in the future?”

February, 2016

The Foundation for Family Medicine Educators will celebrate its 30th Anniversary on April 21-23, 2016 at, in Manila.

January, 2016

2016 sees a another WONCA world conference, this time coming to Rio, in November. There are also several regional events and events for young doctors so why not join us at a WONCA conference this year?