WONCA News

November, 2015

At the Annual Meeting of Members (AMM) of the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), members voted to approve a new governance structure for the College that will see a transition to a smaller skills-based Board of Directors.

November, 2015

Dr Jens Holst, from Germany is this month's Rural Round-up author. He writes about a new elective, undergraduate rural practice course at the University of Magdeburg.

November, 2015

The scientific committee of 3rd WONCA East Mediterranean Region Family Medicine Congress 2016 invites presenters worldwide to submit abstracts to be presented as an oral or poster presentation

November, 2015

Our aims in creating this ePDF, through using actual case studies in peer-to-peer social media usage, were to empower family doctors, GP trainees and medical students, enabling them to make good use of social media, and to develop professional social media strategies that support the maintenance of a healthy work/life balance

November, 2015

With less than two weeks away from the climate change negotiations in Paris (COP-21), please take a moment, if you haven’t done so, and sign the WHO Call to Action on health and climate change

November, 2015

Le président de WONCA et le président de WONCA Europe ont tous deux adressé des messages de condoléances concernant les attentats dévastateurs de Paris à nos collègues en France au nom de la famille WONCA.

November, 2015

WONCA President, Michael Kidd and WONCA Europe President, Prof Job FM Metsemakers have sent messages of condolence to our colleagues in France on behalf of the greater WONCA family.

November, 2015

Los pasados 11 y 12 de Septiembre de 2015, un centenar de residentes y jóvenes médicos de familia (JMF) se reunieron en el Colegio Oficial de Médicos de las Islas Baleares (COMIB) en Palma de Mallorca (España), para participar en el III Encuentro Balear de Residentes y JMFs, organizado por la Sociedad Balear de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria (Ibamfic), con la colaboración del COMIB, de la Sociedad Española de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria (semFYC) y del Movimiento Vasco da Gama.

November, 2015

WONCA Europe region held its annual conference in Istanbul during October and as a result WONCA News for November sees a focus on WONCA Europe. Harris Lygidakis, WONCA Europe Hon Secretary, reports on the conference. "Returning from the WONCA Europe conference in Istanbul, we look back at an amazing organizational feat, led by Okay Basak, Dilek Guldal, Mehmet Ungan and Resat Dabak, which saw the participation of more than 3,600 colleagues, more than 1,000 of whom being junior doctors or trainees."

November, 2015

I was in Kyrgyzstan, accompanied by WONCA president-elect, Amanda Howe, and WONCA Europe President, Job Metsemakers, for the nation’s first congress of general practitioners and family physicians, hosted by the Minister of Health and the leadership of the Kyrgyz State Medical Academy. Kyrgyzstan, like many countries in Central Asia, is facing a new round of health system reform, based on family medicine and strengthening primary health care.