Newsletter: February 2015

También me parece que muchos países ricos consiguen médicos y enfermeras en otros países para poder satisfacer las necesidades de salud de sus propias poblaciones cuando lo que deberían hacer es seguir el ejemplo de Cuba y formar a más profesionales de salud de los que necesitan, y hacer una contribución al resto del mundo ...Otro estado que marca una diferencia sustancial en la salud global a través del apoyo a la medicina de familia de todo el mundo es Canadá.

It also strikes me that while many wealthy nations source doctors and nurses from other countries to meet the health care needs of their populations, what they should be doing is following Cuba’s example and training more health care professionals than they need and making a net contribution to the rest of the world ... Another country making a substantial difference to global health through supporting family medicine developments around the world is Canada

WONCA CEO Garth Manning outlines the outcomes from the recent WONCA Executive meeting, including the Gramado Statement, two new Special Interest Groups, by-laws issues, and new Members.

Chloé Perdrix, a young French GP is travelling around Asia. This month she visits the WONCA secretariat in Bangkok and then travels to Laos and Cambodia. "After Thailand, a new adventure began. We decided to go to Vientiane, capital of Laos and buy two bikes to cycle along Mekong river to its delta, in Vietnam... "

WONCA News has begun a regular feature on the subject of Occupational Health including useful resources for clinical practice. In this contribution, Frank and Peter present reflections for the GP when confronted with ‘common mental disorders’ related to work.

WONCA has submitted various statements to the WHO executive board meeting this January.

Many of you have either submitted abstracts or confirmed your attendance at the conference in Lille, France on 28th – 30th April 2015, “Mental Health for All – Connecting People and Sharing Experience.”

Please find the 7th E-news of the WONCA 2015 Asia Pacific Regional Conference coming to Taiwan in early March.

Dr Henry Lawson, the Chairman of the Local Organising Committee of the Wonca Africa Conference in Accra, Ghana 6-9 May 2015 and future Wonca Africa President, urges you to join us in Ghana.

WONCA wishes the worldwide WONCA family a Happy New Year and best wishes for a safe and prosperous 2015. This is a great year to join the WONCA family at a WONCA conference, somewhere near you.

This month's policy bite with Amanda Howe, President-elect ... I am writing this to start a bit of a debate, and also to consider other ways of being present without always needing to fly and stay.

The WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice chair, Dr John Wynn-Jones summarises the activities of the working party and looks forward to this year's events.

The WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice Rural Heroes Project invites WONCA Member Organizations to celebrate the life and work of a rural doctor from their country who has inspired others, and led the way in family medicine for rural communities.

After a great first year of the WONCA Special Interest Group on Health Equity, we hope this will be another great year for our drive towards health equity!

During 2014, the WONCA Special Interest Group on Point-of-Care Testing (POCT) launched an online survey. They are keen to get more responses from interested colleagues.

As the discipline of family medicine has developed within Europe, training has become more sophisticated ... training for FM teachers for those countries who do not have the resources for internal provision can be provided via the Leonardo courses

Please find the 7th E-news of the WONCA 2015 Asia Pacific Regional Conference coming to Taiwan in early March.

Dr Henry Lawson, the Chairman of the Local Organising Committee of the Wonca Africa Conference in Accra, Ghana 6-9 May 2015 and future Wonca Africa President, urges you to join us in Ghana.

An update from Dr Shehla Naseem, Secretary General, College of Family Medicine Pakistan, on exciting developments for Family Medicine in Pakistan.

As the discipline of family medicine has developed within Europe, training has become more sophisticated ... training for FM teachers for those countries who do not have the resources for internal provision can be provided via the Leonardo courses

We are pleased to inform you that the following members were elected to Executive Board of The Portuguese Association of General Practice and Family Medicine (APMGF), for the years 2015-2017.