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ANNOUNCEMENTS AND UPDATES
from WONCA News June 2022
by WONCA
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HEALTHY LUNG MASTERCLASS ASIA WEBINAR 2
The Healthy Lung Masterclass Asia is an educationalprogrammedevelopedespeciallyfor primary care physicians across Asia in collaboration with WONCA. The programme includes a series of six webinars on key topics in asthmacare
23 JUNE 2022, 19:00–20:15 (UTC+8) REGISTER NOW
We invite you to join the second webinar entitled “Asthma prevention and management in children and adolescents” , which will be held on 23 June 2022, 19:00–20:15 (UTC+8). Dr Rozaida R Villon (Philippines) will chair the webinar, with Prof Kevin R Murphy (USA) and A/Prof Harutai Kamalaporn(Thailand)asspeakers.Thiswebinar will highlight current recommendations and local perspectives regarding asthma management in paediatric patients and how to close the gaps in paediatric asthma primary care inAsia.
PLANETARY COURSES RE-LAUNCH
After the success of the Planetary Health Courses, the WONCA Environment and TelessaúdeRS-UFRGS are planning to re-launch thethreecourses:
Discovermoreon15July2022.Moreinformation comingsoon.
Brazilian Planetary Health, English Translation of Planetary Health Course WONCA Primary Care Planetary Course
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the largest and most rapid disruption to the practices and trainingoffamilyphysicians.Ithasrevealedgaps in the capacity of our health care systems, but it has also led to a surge in resiliency, innovation, and gained experience as primary care providers andeducatorsadapttothisnewparadigm. The Besrour Centre for Global Family Medicine is excitedtolaunchthe2ndmoduletotheFMPivot EducationalInitiative.Ithasbeendevelopedbya team of global Besrour Centre partners to help family physicians and family medicine educators prepare for similar challenges in the future withintheirowncontexts. Our module “Chronic Disease Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities” is now available for free. The onlinemoduleaimstoapplyglobalexperiencein adaptations of chronic disease management during the pandemic to improve quality and efficiencyofcare. Startthislearningmodulehere. Series of five modules focus on global health emergency competencies with five themes: Community-based research, chronic disease, mental health, virtual education and disaster preparedness. First module released in September 2021 “Research Questions in Pandemics and Other Crises: An introduction for familymedicineresearchers” . Modulesavailableforfreehere.
ISN-KDIGO-WONCA WEBINAR ON CKD
Join us on 21 June 2022, for the 2nd part of the ISN KDIGO WONCA webinar on CKD Early IdentificationandIntervention.
The webinar will be in Spanish with live English translation.
Registerhere.
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MCGILL FMER: INTERNATIONAL AWARDS IN FAMILY MEDICINE EDUCATION RESEARCH
The McGill Family Medicine Education Research Group (FMER) is proud to announce the sponsorship of ‘The Pierre Pluye International Mixed Methods Thesis and Dissertations Awards in Family Medicine Education’ to celebrate the original and influential contribution of Dr. Pierre Pluye, founding member of the FMER, to the advancement of mixed methods research and mixed studies reviews in general, and of the family medicine education field of inquiry in particular. These awards are aimed to distinguish the work of promising new researchers committed to the advancement of science in family medicine educationresearcharoundtheworld. As of the academic year 2021-2022, two academic awards – one for the best MSc thesis, and one for the best PhD dissertation – will therefore be granted by an Award FMER EvaluationCommitteechairedbyDr.Pluye. The committee will include at least two other FMER researchers, and two FMER-affiliated graduate students (one MSc student and one PhDstudentorcandidate).
ELIGIBILITY
Submission period: May 1st to August 31st,
2022. Candidates must have completed their thesis or dissertation no earlier than two academic years prior submission, i.e., before August31st,2020. Thethesisordissertationmustmeet3criteria: a)be related to research in family medicine education; b)must uses mixed methods in empirical researchand/orliteraturereview; c)bewritteninEnglishorFrench.
APPLICATION – PROCEDURE Applications must include the five documents detailed below. Incomplete applications will be disregarded: • A cover letter in which the candidate clearly indicates the award s/he is applying for (thesis or dissertation);introduces him/herself, the program and institution in which s/he graduated, as well as his/her research supervisors; and briefly describestheinvestigationconducted. • An abstract of maximum 500 words that summarizes the thesis/dissertation. Particular attention should be given to the description and justification of the mixed methods (empirical research and/or review) adopted in accordance with GRAMMS (Good Reporting of Mixed Methods Studies), and of the major theoretical, empirical, methodological, and practical contributions to thesciencesoffamilymedicineeducation. • AcopyofthethesisinPDFformat. • An updated version of the candidate’s CurriculumVitae.
•Aletterofsupportfromthecandidate’sprincipal researchsupervisor(specifyingthatthethesishas beenapprovedtoobteinaPHDDegree. Readthecompleteinformationhere.
