WONCA Europe president, Professor Shlomo Vinker addressed the delegates at the opening of the European Young Family Doctors Movement (EYFDM) council meeting held on 24/09/2024 along the EYFDM preconference meeting 2024.
Professor Vinker thanked EYFDM executive’s invitation and introduced WONCA Europe, its Executive Board -where EYFDM has a permanent very active member: Dr Aaron Poppleton-, its four statutory committees, its six Networks, eight Special Interest Groups and Working Party, its partner organisations, its special cooperation with European Federation of Periodontology (EFP), WE Future Plan 2023-2027, its scientific activity, the WONCA Europe Talk webinars, its research projects, and the various EU Project grants and the European Journal of General Practice (EJGP) under a new Editor-in-Chief.
Furthermore, he invited them not only to dive into WE Web page to keep updated, where “EYFDM News and Opportunities” newsletter is regularly posted as well as EYFDM forum summaries and an interview with Dr Stuart Holmes, EYFDM’s President: “The greatest barrier for EYFDM members is the cost of attending our conferences regularly”. https://www.woncaeurope.org/news/view/%E2%80%9Cthe-greatest-barrier-for-eyfdm-members-is-the-cost-of-attending-our-conferences-regularly%E2%80%9D-an-inter but to subscribe to the monthly newsletter that includes at least one EYFDM item per issue, as well.
In addition, he described the heavy WE social media activities and invited them to subscribed to them.
He finally acknowledged them for their great commitment and wished them a very successful council and preconference.