WONCA News

September, 2015

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.

September, 2015

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

September, 2015

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.

September, 2015

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.

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).

September, 2015

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

September, 2015

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.

September, 2015

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.

September, 2015

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.

September, 2015

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