Newsletter: June 2017

Since I last wrote, we have had the WONCA Rural Conference in Cairns Australia, the World Health Assembly in Geneva, and World Family Doctor Day. We have also continued the work of Executive in the different regions, seen some new members and had news from many different areas of new and exciting developments in family medicine.

Desde la última vez que escribí, hemos tenido el Congreso de WONCA Rural en Cairns (Australia), la Asamblea Mundial de Salud en Ginebra y el Día Internacional de la Medicina de Familia y del Médico de Familia. También hemos continuado trabajando en el Ejecutivo acerca de diferentes regiones, vistos algunos de los nuevos miembros (¡Bienvenida Indonesia a la familia de WONCA!), y hemos recibido noticias desde muy diferentes áreas acerca de los progresos que está haciendo la Medicina de Familia.

El 19 de mayo es nuestro día especial del año, es el día en el que nos recordamos a nosotros mismos y al resto del mundo que nuestro trabajo merece tanto reconocimiento como celebración. Muchas de nuestras organizaciones miembro lo planean con antelación, y sus eventos aparecen en el sitio web de WONCA para que todos y todas podamos disfrutarlos y compartirlos

Depuis mon dernier rapport, il y a eu la Conférence rurale de WONCA à Cairns en Australie, l’Assemblée mondiale de la santé à Genève et la Journée mondiale du médecin de famille. Nous avons également continué le travail du comité directeur en diverses régions, nous avons rencontré quelques nouveaux membres (bienvenue à l’Indonésie dans la famille WONCA!), et nous avons reçu des nouvelles de nombreuses régions où d’incroyables nouveaux développements en médecine familiale prennent place.

May 19th is our special day of the year, where we remind ourselves and the rest of the world that our work deserves recognition and celebration... I hope you will all be proud of the great work you do for patients, and feel part of our big family doctor community, as we mark the occasion together.

The CEO discusses this November's WONCA Asia Pacific regional conference coming to Thailand and the 2018 WONCA World conference to be held in South Korea,

​World Family Doctor Day grows and grows in popularity. The theme of depression was taken up with enthusiasm. See reports , videos photos from around the globe here.

Growing together in diversity is an interactive art- science project which will be performed by Swiss artists, at the coming WONCA Europe conference, in Prague, under the umbrella of the WONCA Special Interest Group on Complexities in Health.

We are delighted to invite you to the 22nd WONCA Europe Conference that will be held in Prague, Czech Republic from June 28 to July 1, 2017. Regular registration deadline; practice visits; programme details and more.

It is now only five months until the WONCA Asia Pacific Region Conference will come to Pattaya - from November 1-4, 2017. Deadline for early bird registration and for abstract submission – June 30, 2017

If you missed this amazing event, now is your opportunity to see our highlights reel! Thanks to everyone who attended the 14th World Rural Health Conference. It's hard to pick a highlight - there's so many to choose from! So here's some stand out events from the four days of conferencing.

En 2016, el Colegio Noruego de Práctica Generalista publicó un manifiesto acerca del sobrediagnóstico. Más tarde, en el mismo año, la Federación Nórdica de Práctica Generalista (Nordic Federation of General Practice, NFGP) en colaboración con los médicos de familia de Dinamarca, Finlandia, Islandia, Noruega y Suecia se añadieron a los puntos que defendía el manifiesto.

Two Australian medical students, Thomas Currie (6th Year Medicine, James Cook University) and William Moorhead (4th Year Medicine, University of Queensland) – ‘Tom’ and ‘Billy’ attended the WONCA World Rural health conference in Cairns in early May. They provide their perspectives on the conference.

If you missed this amazing event, now is your opportunity to see our highlights reel! Thanks to everyone who attended the 14th World Rural Health Conference. It's hard to pick a highlight - there's so many to choose from! So here's some stand out events from the four days of conferencing.

We are delighted to invite you to the 22nd WONCA Europe Conference that will be held in Prague, Czech Republic from June 28 to July 1, 2017. Regular registration deadline; practice visits; programme details and more.

On the sidelines of the WONCA EMR conference that took place on 2nd-4th of March 2017 in Abu-Dhabi, UAE, the Al Razi Young Doctors’ Movement had the honor to present, on the second day, a workshop titled “Social Media and Physicians: A good pair but guidelines for use needed”.

The European Funded Project KRISTINA will develop and present a virtual assistant in the field of healthcare that will enable getting over language barriers when dealing with users and, therefore, its priority application will be to attend migrants who are struggling to overcome linguistic barriers.