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Join the WONCA family
There are three types of Wonca
membership for organizations wishing to join as a member: Full
Membership, Associate Membership, and Organization in Collaborative
Relations. The type of membership and fees payable would be determined
by the nature of your organization and whether it fulfils the criteria
for Wonca membership.
As Wonca is a single organization, your
Association would simultaneously join "Wonca World and Wonca Europe".
In brief, the types of membership and fees payable are as follows:
Wonca Full Membership
entitles the organization to all the privileges of Wonca including
voting at its World Council meetings and election of its members to the
position of 'Officer of Wonca'. The Subscription fee for Full
Membership of Wonca World and Wonca Europe in 2005 is
US$2.85 per full member
of your organization. A "full member" is one who pays the regular
membership subscriptions to your organization, but excludes those who
pay less than half of the regular subscription.
Wonca Associate Membership
entitles the organization to all the privileges of Wonca, but not voting
at its World Council meetings and election of its members to the
position of 'Officer of Wonca'. The subscription fee in 2005 for
Associate Membership in Wonca World and Wonca Europe is
US$2.05 per full member
of your organization.
To calculate the amount of fees payable in either category, you would
multiply the number of full members by the US$ amount per full member.
Click
here
for the application form for the above categories
Organization in Collaborative
Relations entitles the organization to have
observer status only at Wonca World Council Meetings. No fees are
payable for this category of membership.
Click
here
for application form for the above category
Please submit the following documents by email to Dr Alfred Loh, CEO of
Wonca, at the Wonca Secretariat
admin@wonca.com.sg and also to Professor Warren Heffron
wheffron@salud.unm.edu who is the Chair of the Wonca Membership
Committee. He and his committee members will consider your application:
1. Completed and signed application form.
2. Bylaws or Constitution of the Society (in English).
3. The Society's membership list including names and the number of
members and information such as the percentage of the different
categories of members eg, family doctors, specialists, academics, if
applicable.
4. Financial status of the Society, eg, how the society is funded and
whether the society is in good financial health. This information will
be treated in strict confidence and will be used for application
purposes only.
5. Accompanying application fee in US Dollars, equivalent to one year of
membership. This can be paid by Visa or Mastercard, by bank cheque drawn
on a US bank and made payabale to "WONCA INTERNATIONAL INC" for the
appropriate US Dollar amount, or by direct bank transfer to Wonca's
bank. Please email the Wonca Secretariat
admin@wonca.com.sg for Wonca's banking details if you wish to pay
by bank transfer.
6. Any other information that you think would be useful in assisting
your future application.
Become a Direct Member!
Since WONCA first began, there were
family doctors who wanted to belong to WONCA individually, although they
were already indirect members through their national college or academy.
So the category of Direct Membership was created, which enables
individual family doctors to associate directly with WONCA. Its
popularity has surpassed all expectations; there are now over 1,400
Direct Members (323 from Region Europe) from 75 countries.
What you get
When you
join you receive an attractive Certificate of Membership suitable
for framing and a lapel pin which displays the WONCA logo. A tie
designed exclusively for Direct Members is available for purchase for
US$15.
Each year, you receive six issues of
WONCA's Newsletter, WONCA News, and two issues of the magazine,
The Family Doctor. The journal
Family Practice: an international journal, published by
Oxford University Press every two months, is available to Direct
Members at a 50% discount.
A Directory of Direct Members of
WONCA is sent to Direct Members annually. It has proved to be a great
source of information about family doctors around the world, their
special interests, and how to contact them. This rapidly growing
international network has become a strong interactive fellowship of
doctors with a common interest in general practice/family medicine and
all its variants. Some use the Directory to provide their travelling
patients with overseas contacts. Others find it useful to identify
doctors in other countries with similar interests, whom they can visit.
As many are now on email, communication has become easy and convenient.
Recognition at WONCA conferences
At WONCA World and Regional
Conferences, you will receive special recognition as a Direct Member of
WONCA, and in many instances, reduced registration fees.
Additional benefits for Direct
Members in Europe
If you are a doctor in Europe,
when you become a Direct Member of WONCA, you also become a member of
WONCA Europe - European Society of General Practice/Family Medicine (ESGP/FM).
Direct Members in Europe enjoy these
additional regional benefits:
- Reduced subscription rates to the following journals:
-
European Journal of General Practice, GBP31.50
- British
Medical Journal, Personal rate GBP99, reduced rate GBP75
- Quality
in Health Care, Personal rate GBP65, reduced rate GBP49
- The
Journal of Family Practice, Personal rate USD118, reduced rate
USD96
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Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, Personal rate
NOK405, reduced rate NOK250
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Education for General Practice, Personal rate GBP45, reduced
rate GBP35
- Medical
Education, Personal Rate GBP49, reduced rate GBP35
- To be
charged the reduced rates you send the journals a copy of your
membership certificate or the receipt of payment of Direct
Member dues.
- A 50% reduction in membership fees in one of the three network
organizations in Europe:
- The
European General Practice Research Workshop (EGPRW)
- The
European Academy of General Practice Teachers (EURACT)
- The
European Working Party on Quality assurance (EQuiP)
- Reduced registration fees at future conferences.
- Regular mailing of an updated list of European conferences/meetings
of interest to general practitioners.
- You will be on the list for special ad hoc mailings from
WONCA Region Europe - European Society of General Practice/Family
Medicine and the three network organizations.
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