Special Interest Group News

July, 2014

The WONCA Working Party on Women and Family Medicine has identified family violence as a major health issue facing women doctors and their patients WONCA’s stance against family violence has been further strengthened by the Vasco da Gama Young Doctors group work and the formation of the WONCA Special Interest Group on Family Violence in 2014.

June, 2014

A workshop titled ‘How to Set Up and Manage Point-of-Care Testing in Your Family Practice’ was presented by Prof Mark Shephard and Lara Motta on behalf of the WONCA Special Interest Group on Global Point-of-Care Testing at the recent WONCA Asia Pacific Regional Conference in Kuching, Malaysia.

June, 2014

The WONCA Special Interest Group on complexity will run a workshop in Lisbon, at the WONCA Europe conference in July, and is involved in organising a conference being held in November in the US.

May, 2014

The WONCA Special interest Group on Cancer and Palliative Care will hold a workshop at the coming WONCA Europe conference in Lisbon in July.

March, 2014

The WONCA Special Interest Group on Cancer and Palliative Care will conduct a symposium at the WONCA Europe conference coming up in Lisbon in July.

March, 2014

Dr William Wong is the convenor of the new WONCA Special Interest Group on Health Equity. Find out more.

July, 2013

At the recent WONCA World Council meeting in Prague in June of this year, a new Special Interest Group (SIG) on Global Point-of-Care Testing was approved.