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EDUCATION FOR PRIMARY CARE
FREE ACCESS CONCESSIONS ANNOUNCED
The annual meeting of Education for Primary Care,ouraffiliatedWONCAjournal,tookplacelast week.DrVictorNg,ChairoftheWONCAEducation Working Party is on the Editorial Board joined virtually.
The publishers, Taylor and Francis, reported good and steady progress as paper views and downloads increase, international submissions rise and there is evidence of impact. This is so important as, to address the shortfall of Family MedicineDoctors,theroleofEducationinPrimary Care in workforce development becomes of paramountimportance.
If you are involved in postgraduate training, an excellent article from Australia on supporting GP supervisorsisopenlyavailable
I am delighted that the publishers have agreed to reinstate an increased monthly free access to a selected paper. We will announce these, starting with the December free access paper, in the weeklye-bulletins.
We thank Taylor and Francis and the editor Professor Simon Gay, for this valuable concession towidenjournalaccessacrossallourmembers.
PROF VAL WASS
Former Chair WONCA Working Party on Education, writes on the latest open access items in Education for Primary Care.
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WEBINAR SERIES SESSION 1: DECEMBER 12, 2022 9:00 AM UTC CORE FUNCTIONS OF PRIMARY CARE, LEARNING FROM SOUTH AFRICA, JAPAN, MYANMAR AND THAILAND
A webinar series organized by WONCA Working Party on Research under the title “Family Medicine and Primary Health Care Development AroundtheWorld" ,from2022to2023. This webinar series served as a platform for sharing information on how Family Physicians/General Practitioners and primary health care systems function in countries with different contexts and developments. To understand the core functions of primary care (comprehensiveness, coordination, continuity, access), in this first session, we are going to present a case with multi-morbid conditions with acute and chronic issues to manage and learn how the case is managed in 4 countries: South Africa,Japan,MyanmarandThailand. This session also allows the audience to participate in the discussion, an opportunity to learn and adopt new ideas to improve the system ineachcountry. This session also allows the audience to participate in the discussion, an opportunity to learn and adopt new ideas to improve the system ineachcountry.
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SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ON POLICY ADVOCACY
E-WORKSHOP: HOW TO ADVOCATE FOR FAMILY MEDICINE?
DearWONCAcolleagues,
We are delighted to continue the work of the SIG onPolicyAdvocacytohelpustobemoreeffective advocates for family medicine. See more about the SIG and join the SIG here: SIG Policy Advocacy Webpage In the first webinar for our SIG, we talked about some of the core principles of advocacy and shared an example by our colleague Prof Husni JamalofhisworkatthenationallevelinMalaysia. Weareplanningane-Workshopeveryfewmonths with two e-workshops on the same day at different time zones. to cater to the diversity of WONCA. Our next interactive e-Workshop on “How to advocate for Family Medicine” is on Thurs 1st December 08h00-10h00 GMT (Check your local time HERE) and 16h00-18h00 GMT (CheckyourlocaltimeHERE). Register for the Zoom meeting using the registrationlinksbelow 08h00–10h00GMTRegistrationLink 15h00–17h00GMTRegistrationLink Our theme of learning from experiences of others will continue in this webinar, where we are delighted that our core speakers will be our colleaguesDrRaquelGomezBravo,SaraAres,and Harris Lygidakis. Raquel and Sara will share their multidimensional approach to influence family medicine’s opportunities and status in Europe, while Harris as WONCA CEO will build on his headlines on “The Science and Art of Communication” set out in the September newsletter. The workshop will be a mix of panel discussion, smallgroupsdiscussionsandfeedbackinplenary. We hope the collective expertise in WONCA will provide for a stimulating discussion. Please put the best slot for your time in the diary now! Hopingtoseeyouon1stDecember! We would love these e-workshops to share attemptsatadvocacyoffamilymedicine,whether at local, national, regional or global level and whether failed or succeeded, as we feel this is the best source of learning. Please contact either one of the co-chairs if you are willing to share your experience or any other relevant expertise. It would be great if you can email a 250 word abstract, attach related publications or documents and a few questions that would be useful for group discussion. The objective is not just to share stories but to share reflections/learnings that could become general principles for others to become better advocates forfamilymedicine.
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PROF. SHABIR MOOSA MEMBER AT LARGE, WONCA
PROF. AMANDA HOWE - PAST PRESIDENT, WONCA
