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Top RACGP Award to WONCA President
At this week’s Annual Conference of the Royal Australian College of GPs, WONCA President Professor Michael Kidd was honoured by his Australian peers with the prestigious Rose-Hunt Award – the highest accolade awarded by RACGP. The Rose-Hunt Award is awarded to the RACGP Fellow or Member, who has rendered outstanding service in the promotion of the objects of the RACGP, either by individual patient care, organisation, education, research or any other means.
Prof Kidd also delivered the William Arnold Conolly Oration, named after the first recipient of the Rose-Hunt Award. Read more about the award, and read Professor Kidd’s Oration here.
Ebola continues to make devastating headlines around the world. A patient has just died in USA from the disease, whilst a health worker in Spain has been diagnosed with the disease. One in 5 patients in West Africa is a health professional. A reminder that WONCA’s website has some useful information on the disease, including key information from WHO and free access to the chapter on Ebola and Marsburg Viruses in Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, 18th ed.
WONCA News this month contains the first of a series of articles on workers’ health by Peter Buijs and Frank van Dijk, members of ICOH, the International Commission on Occupational Health. WONCA and ICOH agreed a joint statement on workers’ health, which can also be accessed via the WONCA website. These articles will provide a useful resource for family doctors wanting to learn more about occupational health issues and the impact on their patients.
Next year will be a very busy one for WONCA conferences, with six of the seven regions holding a regional event, as well as the rural health conference in Dubrovnik. Next week Karen Flegg, the WONCA Editor, will be producing a “Conferences and Awards supplement” giving full details of all the events and of the awards and bursaries available to help people to attend Look out for that next week.
