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Women and Family Medicine
WWPWFM – Womens track and Pre conference
at Cancun
May
17 -23 2010
We are delighted to announce
that all the workshops initially
developed at the
Pre conference 17 and 18 May 2010
Come and join WWPWFM for an
exciting pre conference. We will start with a welcome and light supper on Monday
night, then Tuesday morning have a series of skills workshops to help us develop
skills to work more effectively in furthering WWPWFM’s aims. Tuesday afternoon
is the business meeting , where we will review our progress, and develop our
action plan for the next triennium.
At this meeting, we will
also vote for the Chair elect, who will take over the chair at World Wonca in
2013.
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Date/Time |
Program |
Room location |
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Monday 17 May 5-10 pm |
Preconference – welcome, history of WWPWFM, summary of main activities 2007-2010 |
Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach Hotel- Coral Garden Room |
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Tuesday 18 May- 8.45am 12.30 pm |
Preconference 9-10- Welcome and review of action plan 2007-2010 10-12.30 Workshop – Leading in A global context Small group work on Using the Gender Equity Standards for Scientific meetings; LEAD statement and young women doctors; educating for gender equity and mentorship
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Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach Hotel –Coral Garden Room |
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Tuesday 18 1.30-5.30 pm |
Preconference – WWPWFM business meeting for all Develop ACTION plan for 2010-2013 Election of Deputy Chair and new Executive |
Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach Hotel –Coral Garden 2 and 3 |
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Wednesday 19 9 am |
WWPWFM executive meeting |
Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach Hotel- Coral Garden 2 |
There is no cost for this preconference. If you plan to attend could you please
email amanda.barnard@anu.edu.au as
we need to know numbers for catering.
For those involved with Council and regional meetings, we have timed the
business meeting – where we will plan the activities for the next three years
and elect the deputy chair and new executive – for Tuesday afternoon after the
formal Wonca meetings.
Successful 2009
Meetings
Mid Triennial Meeting June 28-July 3 2009 .
40 women family physicians from 18 countries and all six
Wonca regions met in
We revised the 2007-2010 action plan for the WWPWFM
We developed a pre conference program and a coordinated
suite of WWPWFM workshops for
The young women doctors prepared the LEAD statement, and an action plan
The chair, Amanda Howe, stood down due to her increased
work commitments as Hon .Sec of the RCGP, and the chair elect,
Full proceedings of the meeting are available under meetings and news
2009 Wonca
Africa
WWPWFM made a remarkable statement at the Wonca
Africa regional conference., with a pre conference workshop and conference
theme workshop on Women and family Medicine.
The woman plenary speaker
(Dr Modupe Ladipo) was fantastic as she
reviewed African family values and their relation to Family Medicine.
About the WWPWFM
The Wonca Working Party on Women and Family Medicine (WWPWFM) was established at the 16th International Conference of Wonca in Durban, in 2001. The Working Party takes a leadership role in advocating for the concerns raised by women doctors and women’s health in family medicine/general practice. The Working Party was consolidated at the 17th Wonca International Conference in Orlando in 2004.and has had successful preconference events at many meetings since, including the 18th Wonca International Conference in Singapore, 2007 regional meetings, and at Cancun in May 2010
Find our more about the WWPWFM
Members of the working party have published a summary of the WWPWFM activities in Showcasing the Activities of the WWPWFM, a Working Document, a Monograph and Literature Review and aNeeds Assessment Questionnaire and many articles on Women and Family Medicine and activities of the WWPWFM which can be viewed on our website. Our Action Plan for 2007 summarizes our vision for the next triennial.
An historic meeting took place in Hamilton, Canada in 2006. At this meeting members developed and signed the HER Statement. The HER Statement was unanimously endorsed by the Wonca Council in Singapore 2007, as was the 10 Steps for Gender equity in Health.
Subsequent to this, the WWPWFM at
The wonderful women who have been recognized through the Wonca Global Family Physician of the Month programme are highlighted on our website, as are those women who were awarded Bursaries and Travel Equalization Awards to attend the Wonca Singapore 2007 conference.
The wonderful women who have been recognized through the Wonca Global Family Physician of the Month programme are highlighted on our website. A new section of our website is called Stories, which features the activities of women in family medicine.
There is a listserve for women in family medicine, and more information is available from Lucy Candib at lcandib@massmed.org.
For further information about the WONCA Working Party on Women and Family Medicine, please contact Amanda Barnard at amanda.barnard@anu.edu.au.