Newsletter: June 2019

World Health Assembly (WHA) was the usual hectic time, with meetings and side events to attend and to participate in. The WONCA delegation of me; President-Elect, Anna Stavdal; CEO, Garth Manning; and WONCA-WHO Liaison, Viviana Martinez-Bianchi; had a tight schedule of meetings. We met, individually and as a group, with officials from WHO and other agencies and organisations, representing the range of interests of our organisation.

L’Assemblée mondiale de la santé était comme d’habitude surchargée avec réunions et événements parallèles auxquels assister et participer. Notre délégation -moi-même: Anna Stavdal, présidente élue; Garth Manning, PDG; Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, agent de liaison WONCA-OMS- avait un programme rempli de réunions.

La Asamblea Mundial de la Salud (World Health Assembly, WHA) fue un momento de actividad frenética, con encuentros y eventos paralelos a los que asistir y en los que participar. La delegación de la WONCA estaba constituida por mí, por la Presidenta electa Anna Stavdal, por el CEO Garth Manning y por la persona de contacto de la WONCA con la OMS, Viviana Martínez-Bianchi, y tuvimos una agenda especialmente llena. Nos encontramos, de forma individual y en grupo, con representantes de la Organización Mundial de la Salud y otras agencias y organizaciones, representantes todas ellas de una amplia gama de intereses.

每年的世界卫生大会是我们埋首工作的日子，我与一众代表团成员，包括候任主席Anna Stavdal、首席执行官 Garth Manning和世卫组织联络员Viviana Martinez-Bianchi等，出席了大大小小的会议，行程紧密但获益良多。每年世界卫生大会的特色，是同时鼓励场内及场外的讨论交流。我们与世卫组织和多个机构会面之余， 还参加了不少场外的活动。

It’s always a very busy time, with important meetings with WHO colleagues and statements being made on your behalf in general committee meetings, and I will report back more fully in next month’s news. For this month though I wanted to look ahead to some WONCA events which are some months away but which I urge you to get into your diary.

As is now the custom, World Family Doctor Day was celebrated widely in many countries across the globe. Of particular note this year was the launch of two books which are featured in this report - both show what our specialty of family medicine is about - but from totally different perspectives. Other member organisation reports formally submitted by May 31 are included in the attached document.

WONCA Iberoamericana CIMF, which brings together twenty countries including Spain and Portugal, held its sixth Congress of Family and Community Medicine of Ibero-America, in Tijuana, in May. More than 1,500 family doctors and health professionals from all areas of Ibero-America met in Tijuana, Mexico.

​WONCA APR 2019 was held from May 15-18, 2019 at Kyoto International Conference Center, hosted by the Japan Primary Care Association. Total number of participants was 1643, from 46 countries, from all over the world.

All the latest information for those coming to WONCA Europe's conference in Bratislava in June. Practice visits, skills labs, walking workshop.

The WONCA 2020 world conference coming to Abu Dhabi, has launched its call for abstracts for workshops and symposia.

Este mes, pregunté a la Profesora Val Wass, como docente de renombre a nivel mundial y como miembro de la WONCA y Tesorera Honoraria, para darle puntos de vista acerca de cómo la educación de los estudiantes de medicina necesita adaptarse al cambiante entorno sanitario.

Professor Val Wass, globally renowned medical educator, Chair of the WONCA Working Party on Education, and also WONCA Member At Large and Honorary Treasurer, to give her views on how the education of medical students needs to adapt to the changing health environment.

Este mes, pregunté a la Profesora Val Wass, como docente de renombre a nivel mundial y como miembro de la WONCA y Tesorera Honoraria, para darle puntos de vista acerca de cómo la educación de los estudiantes de medicina necesita adaptarse al cambiante entorno sanitario.

WONCA Working Party on the Environment in its May 2019 newsletter provides some interesting resources on environmental issues.

Professor Val Wass, globally renowned medical educator, Chair of the WONCA Working Party on Education, and also WONCA Member At Large and Honorary Treasurer, to give her views on how the education of medical students needs to adapt to the changing health environment.

Sommer Aldulaimi MD FAAFP discusses the way one urban-based Family Medicine Residency Program in Arizona, USA, has accomplished 45% of its graduating residents from the last three years working in rural practice and 100% of the graduates from the last three years working in healthcare professional shortage areas in North America.

Two new WONCA Special Interest Groups have announced their convenors. Also the Spice Route Movement for Young Doctors in the South Asia region has a new chair. Find out more about them!

WONCA Iberoamericana CIMF, which brings together twenty countries including Spain and Portugal, held its sixth Congress of Family and Community Medicine of Ibero-America, in Tijuana, in May. More than 1,500 family doctors and health professionals from all areas of Ibero-America met in Tijuana, Mexico.

​WONCA APR 2019 was held from May 15-18, 2019 at Kyoto International Conference Center, hosted by the Japan Primary Care Association. Total number of participants was 1643, from 46 countries, from all over the world.

All the latest information for those coming to WONCA Europe's conference in Bratislava in June. Practice visits, skills labs, walking workshop.

This World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) workshop calls for international action to improve access and uptake of vaccinations in all countries across the globe.

WONCA Working Party on the Environment in its May 2019 newsletter provides some interesting resources on environmental issues.