WONCA Europe Newsletter February 2021
Dear WONCA colleagues,
We are living and working now for more than a year under the COVID pandemic. It brought many changes in our personal and professional life. We are working more from home and for extended hours, we are more available to our patients in other ways and not only in the traditional face to face visits. I presume that most of us took fewer vacation days and traveled much less to distant places or abroad. We moved to virtual conferences, webinars, and podcasts as the main source of continuing medical education. We presume that COVID and its consequences will stay with us for the coming months and maybe a little bit more. So it is time to stop being reactive and start being active rethinking and replanning our personal and professional lives in the COVID era.
Yours,
On behalf of WONCA Europe Executive Board
And on behalf of the editors
Shlomo Vinker, President-Elect of WONCA Europe
WONCA Europe Newsletter Editor
Presidents' Letter - History of FM/GP in Europe and WONCA EuropeDear Members, Dear Colleagues History depends on how you write, and how much you are able to include. It is said to be written by survivors. I made it in a chronological order without any comment. I know that we need our history especially when teaching residents. Moreover in order to have a future you need to know where you are coming from. |
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Upcoming Events
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 92nd EGPRN Meeting 29 April - 2 May 2021 - Virtual |
 10th EURIPA Rural Health Forum 23 - 25 September 2021 - Siedlce, Poland & Hybrid Abstract Submission Deadline: June 15th, 2021 |
 3rd EURACT Educational Conference 24 - 25 September 2021 - Budapest, Hungary Abstract Submission Deadline: April 17th, 2021 |
EQuiP Virtual Conference 2021EQuiP is organising a virtual conference, which will take place on 19-20 March 2021. The topic is: Quality and Safety of Urgent Primary Care in Europe. The conference is aimed for general practitioners (GP), GP-trainees, teachers, trainers and policy makers. Participants will be able to discuss hot topics, such as patient safety, quality indicators, overdiagnosis and overtreatment, teaching quality and safety, quality of urgent care in Europe, augmented reality in teaching urgent care, triage and decision support, and palliative care. |
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EURIPA's The Grapevine newsletter Winter 2020-21 edition is outYou can read the latest edition of EURIPA's "The Grapevine" newsletter on it's website. In this edition you can find "1st Rural-Health e-Forum", "Poland 2021", "Winning poster e-Forum", "Winning oral communication", "My Practice –in times of Covid-19", "News from EURIPA", "Rural Proofing for Health –launch of new Toolkit", "30 by 2030" petition, and more. |
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