WONCA News

August, 2018

Je suis rentrée début août d’un agréable voyage au Royal New Zealand College of GPs (RNZCGP) où j’avais été invitée à la conférence annuelle et, en chemin, j’ai également rendu visite à nos collègues de Singapour.

August, 2018

A principios de agosto volví de un viaje que disfruté mucho durante el cual pude visitar el Real Colegio de Médicos de Familia de Nueva Zelanda (Royal New Zealand College of GPs, RNZCGP), tras aceptar su invitación para asistir al Congreso anual y, de vuelta a casa, también pasé a visitar a nuestros colegas en Singapur.

August, 2018

A couple of years ago I wrote on WONCA membership, and thought that I would return to this, to update members on which organizations have been admitted to WONCA membership in this biennium. WONCA now boasts over 130 Member Organizations in around 150 countries and territories and represents some 600,000 family doctors globally.

August, 2018

​Miguel Pizzanelli, (Uruguay), convenor, SIG on Quaternary Prevention & Overmedicalization (QP&O), writes on th epast year's activites and notes the group is preparing a working meeting of the group in the WONCA World Conference in Seoul.

August, 2018

Dr William Wong, convenor for the Special Interest Group (SIG) on Health Equity reports: oOver the last year, the group has been devoted to its core agenda of promoting Health Equity in primary care.

August, 2018

Hagit Dascal-Weichhendler (Israel) and Kelsey Hegarty (Australia) co-convenors of the SIG on Family Violence report on activities for 2017-18 and look to the future - at the international level we are exploring the idea of offering consultancies to regional areas, to help strengthen knowledge, education and training.

August, 2018

Prof Maria van den Muijsenbergh, convenor, SIG on Migrant Care, International Health and Travel Medicine writes: the SIG has steadily grown over the years and now consists of a group of members from 18 different nations in Australia, South- Africa, USA, South-America, Middle-East and Europe.

August, 2018

Victor Ng, SIG convenor writes: Below are a few examples of the great work of our WONCA SIG EM members in various WONCA regions. While this is far from an exhaustive list, it shows the commitment of our members to promote acute and emergency medicine to the rest of our family medicine colleagues. We appreciate and are thankful for their service to our discipline.

August, 2018

The WONCA Special Interest Group on Ageing and Health has been reconvened in this 12 months. New convenor, Prof Dimity Pond (Australia) reports: The group has been busy producing a consensus statement about the importance of strengthening family medicine in the face of the increasing numbers of elderly people throughout the countries of the world.

August, 2018

Trabajando a escala - como médicos y médicas de familia necesitamos pensar tanto a nivel pequeño como a nivel más grande – y no siempre debemos sentir que debemos avanzar nosotros solos. Algunos de los modelos en asistencia moderna ofrecen un apoyo efectivo y una mayor capacitación, mientras mantenemos como prioridad la cara humana de la Medicina de Familia.