Friday 27th June 2014
Point-of-care testing refers to pathology testing performed in a clinical setting (such as family medicine) at the time of patient consultation, generating a test result that is used to make an immediate informed clinical decision. A WONCA Special Interest Group on
Point of Care Testing was approved by World Council at last year’s meeting in Prague, and the POCT SIG has been incredibly active ever since. Read a report of their latest workshop, held at the WONCA Asia Pacific Region conference in Kuching, Malaysia.
On June 18 2014 the Twitter account of the Vasco da Gama Movement, @vdgmeu, reached its 1000th follower!
Just less than three years ago, on August 6 2011, the Twitter account of the Vasco da Gama Movement was created. @vdgmeu has since shared with its followers 371 photos and videos and it also enriched Social Media conversations with 2036 of its own tweets and many more re-tweets, quotes and favourite tweets !
Follow Vasco da Gama either on Twitter or on Facebook for more details of their 10th anniversary pre-conference on 1st and 2nd July in Lisbon, or read more about it.
The New Zealand Guideline Group (www.nzgg.org.nz) funds the Cochrane Primary Care Field to produce the P.E.A.R.L.S. Pearls are an independent product of the Cochrane primary care group and are meant for educational use and not to guide clinical care. They are, however, useful tools for keeping up to date with current thinking. We’re grateful to the New Zealand Guideline Group for permission to reprint PEARLS on the WONCA website.
Recent articles include:
No 401 – Limited evidence for benefits of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for tennis elbow.
No 410 – Psychosocial interventions effective for smoking cessation in pregnancy.
No 411 – Remote and web 2.0 interventions effective for promoting physical activity.
The WONCA Secretariat staff will be in Lisbon for the WONCA Europe Region conference. Please do come up to say “hello”, and consider enrolling for Direct Membership – or even Life Direct Membership.
Remember – Direct Membership offers you discounts on future conference registrations, but it also helps to support the critical work that we do, most especially in our ever-increasing collaboration with WHO. More and more we are making sure that the voice of family medicine is heard loud and clear – but we need your assistance, so please do take out Direct Membership and help WONCA’s cause.
