WONCA News

November, 2020

我们每次向会员组织就「WONCA应为会员扮演的最重要角色是什么？」作意见调查和讨论时，得到的意见均是期望我们能进一步巩固在世界卫生组织的参与，以及加强协作。大家也期望能汇集合五十多万名会员的影响力，提高家庭医学的知名度和各界的认同。

November, 2020

Every poll and discussion we hold with Member Organisations about what the most important role is that WONCA can undertake on their behalf comes back with the plea to further escalate our involvement with WHO. Our members want us to use the leverage of 500,000+ members to increase visibility and recognition of family medicine.

November, 2020

Karen Flegg writes: ​As part of finishing up my role as WONCA editor by the end of the year, I wish to reflect on the great joy and wonderful times I have experienced in attending WONCA conferences over the last 10 years. My Editor's Picks: Photos of Individuals, and Editors Picks: Photos of Groups received wonderful feedback and of course these photos of my colleagues were taken at WONCA conferences. Below you will find various conference reports from past years' WONCA conferences.

October, 2020

Dr John Wynn-Jones is well known in WONCA circles and immediate past chair of the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice. During the COVID-19 crisis he has been writing a daily 'Rural Miscellany' email with poems and resource ideas to help and divert us in this difficult time. This month we feature his item on "joy".

October, 2020

The CEO reports on the, now virtual, WONCA Rural Conference and WONCA Europe conference as well as the current series of WONCA webinars on COVID-19. He also announces the release of the 2019-2020 WONCA Annual Report and anticpates a coming virtual WONCA Executive meeting.

October, 2020

This report highlights health equity activities from September 2019 to April 2020.

October, 2020

The 2019-2020 year has seen some significant growth for the WONCA special interest group (SIG) on emergency medicine. We now number more than 200 participants from all regions of the world, with very active participation. Updates are sent to members every 2-3 months detailing the work of the SIG and strong positive feedback on our activities is regularly received.

October, 2020

The Special Interest Group on Family Violence (SIG FV) continues to work, expanding our global connections to systematically support family doctors to address family violence in practice and policy. Our current and future activities are structured under six main strategies: Connect, Resource, Support, Educate, Communicate, Evaluate.

October, 2020

The annual report of the Working Party on Research who have managed numerous activities despite COVID-19

October, 2020

WICC was represented at many WONCA Region Conferences presenting posters or holding workshops on classification topics like ICPC and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). The future: WICC will be putting all of its energy into the development of ICPC-3.