WONCA News

May, 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.

May, 2017

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.

May, 2017

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”.

May, 2017

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.

May, 2017

The WONCA Working Party on the Environment has developed the WONCA Statement on Planetary Health and Sustainable Development Goals which was endorsed by the WONCA Executive in April 2017.

May, 2017

Annette Berendsen, Convenor of WONCA's Special Interest Group on Cancer and Palliative Care, updates us on activities in Rio and plans for 2017-2018

May, 2017

This month, David Hogg, a rural GP from the Isle of Arran, Scotland and tells us about his innovative website RuralGP.com... The aim of the site is to network and embrace rural general practice - and whilst there has been an inevitable Scottish focus, I am keen to feature any material relevant to international rural practice.

May, 2017

Prioritising people’s needs – four thoughts on equity from this month’s WONCA business: - A busy month in April / early May – I attended a conference as a keynote speaker, in Tunisia run by the ‘Towards Unity for Health’ (TUFH) network; then went to Palestine to the first conference of their new family medicine association.

May, 2017

In only two weeks we celebrate World Family Doctor Day (FDD) on May 19. WONCA’s Member Organizations are making plans for their various celebrations and in June we hope to publish some of these.

May, 2017

Candan Kendir was the Vasco da Gama Movement (VdGM) Fund Winner attending the 4th VdGM Forum which was held from 20-21 April 2017 in Strasbourg, France