WONCA Europe position paper on the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in primary care
Ultrasound has been described as 'the Stethoscope for the 21st Century'. Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) can answer a specific clinical question or support a specific procedural aim within a routine clinical consultation. Its use within family medicine is rapidly increasing...
2024 Public
European Training Requirements for GP/FM Specialist Training – EURACT Document 2018
WONCA Europe and its teaching organization EURACT have produced several important documents on the definition and description of the General Practice/Family Medicine (GP/FM) specialty. EURACT specifically dealt with the different aspects of education in GP/FM – from undergraduate to special...
2018 Public
Overdiagnosis And Action to Be Taken – Position Paper 2018
Modern medicine has brought impressive benefits to humankind. A side-effect of its many successes is however an unfounded, cultural belief that more medicine is necessarily better, irrespective of context. Consequently, problems related to “too much medicine”, overdiagnosis and overtr...
2018 Public
WONCA Europe 2018 Krakow: Promoting Equity for a Better Quality of Care for All Europeans
“Everyone has the right to timely access to affordable, preventive and curative health care of good quality” is one of the 20 principles and rights proclaimed by the European Commission in 2017. EQuiP, the European Society for Quality and Safety in Family Practice, a WON...
2018 Public