Feature Stories

March, 2018

This week all WONCA Member Organizations were sent this statement on the situation in Eastern Ghouta.

February, 2018

Kyle Hoedebecke, inaugural chair of Polaris, the WONCA Young Doctors’ Movement in North America was recently selected as the US Army Physician of the Year. he has been working in South Korea for two years and here he talks of "My experience working in South Korea"

February, 2018

The WONCA Special Interest Group on Migrant Care, International Health & Travel Medicine has a new co-chair, Guus Busser, who joins existing chair, Maria van den Muijsenbergh. Who is Guus Busser?

January, 2018

WONCA CEO, Garth Manning writes about World Family Doctor Day coming on May 19.​ Theme : "Family doctors - leading the way to better health" and the President woudl like your examples of activties that demonstrate this theme.

January, 2018

Dr Veena Kumari was a 2017 Montegut Scholarship winner for the WONCA South Asia Region. She has recently taken up a new job as an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine in Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan. Dr Kumari attended the South Asia region conference in Nepal from 24-26 November 2017 as well as The Spice Route pre conference. Here she reports on her experience.

January, 2018

Dr Pratyush Kumar, well known energetic leader of the WONCA South Asia Rural group (WoRSA) and Organising Secretary for the coming WONCA World Rural health conference in India has developed a health calendar for the new year. "I wanted to highlight gender equality out of the SDGs (January), as most of these diseases get lots of coverage, but gender equality as a health issue is much less discussed, although its vital to transform healthcare.".

January, 2018

Dr Allan Pelch of Denmark, long time organiser / coordinator of the Scandinavian Delegation of Family Physicians which dates back to 1988 and the World WONCA Conference in New Orleans, reflects on 30 years of activities. "WONCA conferences lead to opportunities to meet other family physicians and learn about their experiences, collaborate on research and to visit local practices."

January, 2018

Dr Sanam Shah of Pakistan was awarded the Montegut Scholarship for the South Asia region. She is the national secretary, Pakistan for the WONCA Spice Route Young Doctors’ Movement and attended the recent South Asia region conference in Nepal.

January, 2018

Dr Mya Win Hnit, of Myanmar, was selected as a Montegut scholarship winner to attend 2017 WONCA Asia Pacific Regional Conference, which was recently held on November 1‐4 in Pattaya, Thailand. He reports on his activities and proposed actions.

December, 2017

As a new initiative, WONCA's Young Doctors' representative on World Executive, Ana Nunes Barata (Portugal), is coordinating regular news from our seven region Young Doctors' Movements. Not every region's movement will always provide news but each two months we hope to bring you news from some of the regions.