WONCA News

December, 2015

A one-day workshop on Research in Primary Health Care was organised by a joint collaboration between the European General Practice Research Network and the Vasco da Gama Movement during the VdGM preconference in Istanbul

December, 2015

The WONCA South Asia Region conference organisers are planning an exciting conference in Colombo from 12 to 14 February, 2016.

December, 2015

La Sociedad Española de Medicina de Familia y Comunitaria (semFYC) participó en la Asamblea y en el Congreso anuales celebrado en Estambul de WONCA Europa como miembro de las 45 organizaciones representadas por WONCA en toda Europa.

December, 2015

At the recent conference of AFPI (Academy of Family Physicians of India) Ramnik and Jyoti were awarded the first AFPI Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of their enormous contribution to family medicine development in the South Asia Region

December, 2015

El pasado 29 de mayo de 2015 tuvieron lugar las VIII Jornadas de Seguridad del Paciente en Atención Primaria en el aulario docente del Hospital de Cruces en Baracaldo (Bilbao. España)

December, 2015

The eighth annual conference on patient safety in primary care took place on May 29, 2015 in Cruces Hospital in Baracaldo, Bilbao (Spain).

December, 2015

Ian McWhinney was a family doctor from the UK who moved to Canada in 1967 to establish the Department of Family Medicine at Western University in Ontario. Ian influenced the careers and the attitudes of family doctors in many parts of the world.

December, 2015

Many GPs are already looking very much forward to the WONCA Europe Conference in June 2016 in Copenhagen. We have already received a promisingly high number of abstract submissions and we hope you are considering submitting your abstract to the congress

November, 2015

Ian McWhinney influyó en las carreras y las actitudes de los médicos de familia en muchas partes del mundo, y fue uno de los líderes pioneros del desarrollo de la base académica de nuestra disciplina profesional. Ian murió en 2012 a la edad de 85 años.

November, 2015

Ian McWhinney a influencé les carrières et les attitudes des médecins de famille dans beaucoup de régions du monde, et il fut l'un des pionniers du développement de la base universitaire de notre discipline professionnelle.