Newsletter: October 2015

This was an interesting time to be in Iran, with the United Nations having recently announced a nuclear accord that could lead to the lifting of long-standing sanctions. I admit that I was a little nervous about visiting Iran, especially when told that I would have to undertake advanced security training through the United Nations. Once in Iran, I felt welcome and safe.

Recientemente he estado en Natal, en el noreste de Brasil, reuniéndome con los miembros la Sociedad Brasileña de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria, miembro de WONCA, y hablando en el 13 Congreso Nacional de la Sociedad.

WONCA truly is a global organization, representing over 500,000 members in more than 140 countries and territories in all continents. This month's report is on representation on the global stage.

WONCA and the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation are pleased to announce the release of the General Practitioner/ Family Practitioner Reasons for Encounter/ Health Issues (GP/FP) subset and the map from the GP/FP subset to the International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC-2).

Chloé Perdrix is a young French GP who has taken a sabbatical year travelling around Asia. In order to stay in touch with the medical network, she has tried to meet general practitioners during this journey. This is her final article - Primary care in Mongolia and Russia and reflections about my future in Family medicine.

I am a medical student and like most students I have had a lot of concerns. In 2010 in my first year at the Medical School I was disappointed. The University was not exactly what I expected ...

The recently published WHO/UNAIDS Global Standards for quality health care services for adolescents aims to assist policy-makers and health service planners in improving the quality of health-care services

WHO is in the process of developing a Global Strategy and Action Plan on Ageing and Health which will be submitted to the World Health Assembly next May for endorsement. Comment by October 30.

WONCA East Mediterranean region is holding its 2016 conference from March 17-19 in Dubai. Submission of abstracts is now open.

The WONCA World Special Interest Group on migrant care, international health and travel medicine will present two workshops at the coming WONCA Europe conference in Istnabul, on the health of refugee children and on migrant children. Other relevant program items are listed.

WONCA Europe conference is coming soon to Istanbul Download the full program, register for courses, meet the speakers.

The WONCA Special Interest Group on Complexities in Health will run three workshops and a meeting at this year’s WONCA Europe conference in Istanbul.

The WONCA World conference coming to Rio in November 2016 has opened abstract submissions. Find out more here.

Visit us in Copenhagen 15 - 18 June 2016

WONCA's North America region for young doctors' group 'Polaris' are holding a preconference before the American Academy of Family Physicians global health workshop.

El cliché es, “si no se mide no se gestiona” – o simplemente puede no hacerse. Aunque existen numerosos riesgos asociados con querer medir cosas que no se pueden o no se deben medir, hay una cierta verdad en este dicho.

Prof Amanda Howe is on holidays, so this month’s Policy Bite is written by guest author Dr is Luisa Pettigrew. Luisa is a member of WONCA Executive and our liaison person with the WHO. The cliché is that “if it is not measured it is not managed” - or simply may not be done. Whilst there are numerous pitfalls associated with wanting to measure things that cannot or should not be measured, there is also some underlying truth in this saying.

Este mes me ha llegado una publicación de los compañeros de Holanda y me ha recordado los motivos por los cuales me involucré en WONCA en los años 90.

Recientemente he participado en una comisión independiente para hacer recomendaciones acerca del personal que trabaja en Atención Primaria en Inglaterra.

Ewen McPhee writes of an exchange of ideas between rural doctors from Queensland, Australia, and rural doctors in Japan, after a chance meeting at the WONCA rural conference in Dubrovnik.

The WONCA World Special Interest Group on migrant care, international health and travel medicine will present two workshops at the coming WONCA Europe conference in Istnabul, on the health of refugee children and on migrant children. Other relevant program items are listed.

The WONCA Special Interest Group on Complexities in Health will run three workshops and a meeting at this year’s WONCA Europe conference in Istanbul.

WONCA's new SIG on Health Equity reports: Welcome to the WONCA Special Interest Group on Health Equity news. In this edition we would like to share with you our excitement towards the upcoming WONCA Europe conference where we have been invited to host a Health Equity workshop. In addition to this, our convener shares with us some interesting and related experiences this summer.

WONCA East Mediterranean region is holding its 2016 conference from March 17-19 in Dubai. Submission of abstracts is now open.

WONCA EMR in collaboration with Egyptian FM Association conducted a workshop in Cairo on 3rd September 2015

It is with great pride that the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) releases its latest resource: Fundamental Teaching Activities in Family Medicine™: A Framework for Faculty Development (FTA Framework).

The recently published WHO/UNAIDS Global Standards for quality health care services for adolescents aims to assist policy-makers and health service planners in improving the quality of health-care services

It is with great pride that the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) releases its latest resource: Fundamental Teaching Activities in Family Medicine™: A Framework for Faculty Development (FTA Framework).