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NATIONAL COLLEGES AND ORGANIZATIONS
American Academy of Family Physicians
This Web site is divided into two
sections: AAFP Online, an area for AAFP members that requires a password for access, and
Family Medicine Online, a public area available to anyone who would like more information
about the medical specialty of family practice. The public area also contains information
about a wide range of health problems that family physicians are trained to manage. This
may be a good referral site for your patients.
Wonca
World Organisation of Family Doctors
CP
Standing Committee of European Doctors
(Brussels)
- Societe
Scientifique de Medecine Generale (Belgium)
- Wetenschappelijke
Vereniging van Vlaamse Huisartsen (Belgium)
- The College of
Family Physicians of Canada
The college national voluntary
organization of family physicians that makes continuing medical education of its members
mandatory. The College strives to improve the health of Canadians by promoting high
standards of medical education and care in family practice, by contributing to public
understanding of healthful living, by supporting ready access to family physician
services, and by encouraging research and disseminating knowledge about family medicine.
- Czech
Republic Society of General Practice
The Czech Society of GP's works under
the umbrella of the Czech J.E.Purkyne Medical Society which is a voluntary and independent
association of physicians, pharmacists and other personnel in health care and related
disciplines, operating in the Czech Republic.
- CSeRMEG
(Centro Studi e Ricerche in Medicina Generale) General Practice Research Group
- EURACT- European Academy of
Teachers in General Practice.
This is the Homepage of the organisation
and includes information about the groups meetings, list-server and task forces. Also of
interest is Eurocum an electronic database on curriculum and educational methods in
Vocational Training of General Practitioners in Europe.
- The European
General Practice Research Workshop
- The
French Federation of General Practitioners
- Hong
Kong College of Family Physicians
Irish College of General Practitioners
The site provides information about
the College, its membership and College activities. It will also have the latest
information about WONCA 98 - the world conference of Family Medicine hosted by the College
in Dublin on June 14 - 18 1998 in the R.D.S.
- Malta
College of Family Doctors
A description of the college, its
local activities and its involvement in international activities and a listing of papers
and publications from the college. This is a good model for other colleges interested in
establishing their own sites.
- North American Primary Care Research
Group
A large, busy and useful site for
family medicine researchers including a listing of primary care resources on the Internet,
publications and research papers and details of the mailing list NAPCRG-L
- Norwegian College of General
Practitioners
This website contains general information
about the Norwegian College, its activities and its working parties, as well as links to
other key family medicine sites in Norway.
- Primary
Care Doctors' Organisation Malaysia (PCDOM)
Provide information on topics and issues
related to the practice of primary care/general practice in Malaysia, targeting many
primary care doctors and the general public. Also provides local guidelines and
information useful to GPs in their practice, besides links to CME and public information
sites globally.
- Royal
Australian College of General Practitioners
This site provides details of the
activities of the Australian college and includes details of immunisation schedules,
informatics activities in Australian general practice and a registration form for the
RACGP Computer Conference in Melbourne in August 1997.
- Royal College
of General Practitioners (UK)
A very polished site with details of
the Royal College, its activities, services, membership, specialist group, faculties and
regional offices and its international affairs. A useful "What's News?" page
gives up to date information on issues of interest to general practitioners.
- The Royal
NEW ZEALAND College of General Practitioners
With 98 % of New Zealand general
practitioners as members, the College concerns itself with standards and education for New
Zealand General Practice. This site outline the activites and programs of the College and
gives contact people for varoius activites. Annual conference information is included and
contact can be made with the organising committee of the WONCA 2000 Asia Pacific Regional
conference to be held in Christchurch.
- semFYC
(Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine) and the affiliated group
the SAMFYC (Andalusian Society of Family and
Community Medicine)
semFYC is one of the largest national
societies of Family Doctors, and is a non-profit organization mostly devoted to medical
science and health promotion. Both these links are Spanish Language only.
- SGAM Swiss
Association for Family Medicine or General Practice
Information regarding Swiss Family
Practice and the SGAM Journal 'ARS MEDICI'. In German only.
- Society of Teachers
of Family Medicine
Details about this North American Society,
its calender of forthcoming events, publications, activities and the STFM Foundation. A
very useful site for family medicine educators from around the world.
- South
African Academy of Family Practice
The Fam-Med community is hosted by
The South African Academy of Family Practice / Primary Care. The Academy is an independent
organisation, which delivers quality Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to Family
Practitioners. With its 19-year history, it is the only organisation providing CPD to
Family Practitioners by Family Practitioners. At the Fam-Med site you will have the
opportunity to interact in the three discussion forums with other Family Practitioners,
find out about CPD opportunities in your area, Join the Academy or update your membership
details. You can also read the latest articles from the SA Family Practice Journal, find
out about our Rural Health Care Initiative or see some of the results from the South
African Sentinel Physicians Research Network (SASPREN).
- Swedish Association of Family
Doctors (SFAM)
Details about the activities of
the Swedish Association of Family Doctors.
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