WONCA News

November, 2012

New WONCA CEO, Dr Garth Manning, is encouraged by the number of individual family doctors seeking to join WONCA as direct members. He also writes of setting up the new WONCA secretariat in Bangkok.

November, 2012

Rendez-Vous 2012 brought together the WONCA World Rural Health conference and The Network: Towards Unity for Health annual conference, as well as the next NOSM/Flinders conference on Community Engaged Medical Education, the Consortium for Longitudinal Integrated Curricula, and the Training for Health Equity Network. More than 850 delegates from nearly fifty countries and six continents attended.

November, 2012

The Wonca Editor recently had the opportunity to interview the new WONCA CEO, Dr Garth Manning and find out about his new staff and first impressions of WONCA.

November, 2012

Past President of WONCA, Dr David Game was recently interviewed by the WONCA editor about his perspectives on WONCA past, and present. It was a priviledge and a joy to spend some time with an elder of WONCA, whose memory of days past seems unfaded by the years. Read more about David and past days of WONCA.

November, 2012

Featured WONCA leader for this month is Asia Pacific personality Prof Zorayda 'Dada' Leopando from the Philippines

November, 2012

Professor Job FM Metsemakers generously agreed to be interviewed by the WONCA editor, in Vienna, in July 2012. He has been secretary of WONCA Europe for five years. This interview ended with the editor asking why WONCA colleagues might be interested in Job’s story. Job’s reply was: “After all, I am just an ordinary guy….”. But most WONCA colleagues are not ordinary, so we leave it to the reader to decide.

November, 2012

WONCA world conference 2013 to be held in Prague has generous registration fee concessions for WONCA direct members until February 2013. Read the latest conference newsletter.

November, 2012

This is not a column about remote geology. Rather, it is about the unique and extraordinary work of family doctors in more isolated settings. Read more of the President's journey to the WONCA Rural conference held in October, in Thunder Bay, Canada.

November, 2012

Mensaje del Presidente de WONCA, novembre 2012. Esta no es una columna sobre geología distante. Más bien trata sobre el excepcional y extraordinario trabajo de los médicos de familia en algunos de los lugares más aislados.

November, 2012

In his Opening Ceremony speech at the 2012 AAFP Scientific Assembly, newly-installed AAFP President Jeffrey Cain, MD, of Denver said that family physicians are poised to pilot a strained system to a brighter, healthier future.