Standards, guidebooks and more. WHO publications of particular relevance to Primary Care. Definition of General Practice / Family Medicine | WONCA Europe The European Definition of GP / FM This consensus statement defines both the discipline of general practice / family medicine, and the professional tasks of the family doctor; it also describes the core competencies required of general practitioners. Rethinking European Health Systems Priorities, - FM represented! Professor Barbara Starfield championed the value and need of strong primary health care systems worldwide. It is a large group whose mission is to develop and maintain classifications that accommodate the complete domain of family medicine/general practice. Resources that help with clinical practice. Evidence on the value of primary health care. Although this is a very uncommon date we think that this is a good opportunity to reflect on the experiences of this year and to celebrate all the heroes working in our offices of General Practice/Family Medicine/Primary Health Care. For individuals and organizations. Rural Practice The WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice (RuralWONCA) is an active network of rural family doctors and rural academics from each of the world's regions: Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australasia/Pacific. From the definitions within this paper the agendas for education, research, quality assurance can be derived, to ensure that family medicine will develop to meet the health care needs of the population in the 21st century. Except where otherwise noted, this website by WONCA Europe and all the materials published on it (including documents, text, images, photos, audio and video) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. With our best regards and hoping to … SecretariatEurope@Wonca.net, Website & Communications 1945-2014. communications@woncaeurope.org, Definition of General Practice / Family Medicine, Instructions for the translation of WONCA Europe documents, The European Definition of General Practice/Family Medicine - Short Version, France - La Definition Europeenne de la Medecine Generale – Medecine de Famille, Austria / Switzerland: Europaische Definition der Allgemeinmedizin - Hausarztmedizin, The Netherlands - Flanders - Huisartsgeneeskunde: de Europese definitie, The European Definition of General Practice / Family Medicine - Edition 2011 Short Version, Slovenia - Evropska definicija družinske medicine, Portugal - A Definição Europeia de Medicina Geral e Familiar (Clínica Geral / Medicina Familiar), The European Definition of General Practice / Family Medicine - Edition 2011, Italy - La Definizione Europea della Medicina Generale/ Medicina di Famiglia (Edition 2011), Turkey - Aile Hekimliği/Genel Pratisyenlik Avrupa Tanımı, Spain - La Definición Europea de Medicina General /Medicina de Familia, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. WONCA is an unusual, yet convenient acronym comprising the first five initials of the World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians.. WONCA's short name is World Organization of Family Doctors. WONCA's short name is World Organization of Family Doctors. | Terms & conditions, WONCA Europe Secretariat WONCA is an unusual, yet convenient acronym comprising the first five initials of the World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians. WONCA's short name is World Organization of Family Doctors. It delineates the essential elements of the academic discipline and provides an authoritative view on what family doctors in Europe should be providing in the way of services to patients, in order that patient care is of the highest quality and also cost effective. Poljanski nasip 58 / 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, Tel. The WONCA International Classification Committee (WICC) is WONCA's longest serving committee. WONCA policies and statements on a variety of issues. : + 386 3 166 21 34 A collection of feeds, publications, and alerts from third parties including the WHO. This consensus statement defines both the discipline of general practice / family medicine, and the professional tasks of the family doctor; it also describes the core competencies required of general practitioners.