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This figure shows the organisation and correlations of Wonca Europe.

Wonca is an acronym for the World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians, or World Organization of Family Doctors for short.

Wonca Europe is the European regional branch of Wonca. It has more than 40 member organisations and represents more than 45.000 family physicians in Europe. Wonca Europe has about 400 direct members. 

The society is the academic and scientific society for general practitioners in Europe. Its objective is to improve the quality of life of the peoples of the world through fostering and maintaining high standards of care in general practice/family medicine by providing a forum for exchange of knowledge and information; encouraging and supporting the development of academic organizations of general practitioners/family physicians; and representing the educational, research and service provision activities of general practitioners/family physicians before other world organizations and forums concerned with health and medical care.

The society aims to stimulate networking among GPs with an interest in professional development, research, education and quality improvement. To this end the society arranges an annual European conference and other meetings. 

The Society has a small amount of money available to support special projects which stimulate development and research in General Practice in Europe.

The society has set 10 strategic tasks to be fulfilled in each member country within the next decade (until 2010): 

  1. Mandatory undergraduate education in family medicine/general practice at all medical schools in Europe
  2. Academic departments of family medicine/general practice at all university medical schools in Europe.
  3. All doctors undergoing postgraduate medical training must spend time in the discipline of family medicine/general practice
  4. Specific vocational training for general practice at least in accord with the European Union directive should be established in all EU countries, and developed in non-EU countries
  5. Continuing development of family medicine based on research
  6. Evidence based quality development for family medicine in all European countries
  7. Support the development of and encourage the debate on mandatory professionally led continuing medical education and recertification
  8. Support the establishment of departments and research units for continuing medical education
  9. Support a proper balance within family medicine in relation to prevention, diagnosis, cure and care.
  10. Raise the awareness of the responsibility of Family Medicine both to individual patients and also to society as a whole.

 

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