Balancing values in obesity care: From guideline development to implementation

Obesity is a major public health challenge, rooted in an obesogenic society and largely originating outside the healthcare domain. The development of a national guideline for obesity care (including pharmacological options) revealed tensions between scientific evidence and broader dimensions of healthcare quality. While randomized controlled trials provide answers on effectiveness and short-term safety of weight-loss…

Palliative Care in noncancerous patients: practical skills for family physicians

Although palliative care (PC) is often associated primarily with oncology, its scope extends far beyond cancer. PC plays a crucial role in the comprehensive management of patients with serious chronic illnesses, including advanced COPD, severe congestive heart failure (CHF), and progressive dementia. It improves quality of life, assists with complex decision-making, reduces unnecessary interventions, and…

Nature prescribing in primary care: current practices and future prospects

Healthcare professionals play a key role in promoting individuals' reconnection with nature through preventive and therapeutic approaches that integrate contact with biodiversity and nature into care practices. The concept of green/nature prescription is a recommendation by GPs, encouraging outdoor activities in natural environments to enhance patients' health and well-being.Investigate motivations and practices of GPs and…

Contraception for All: Improving Access and Equity for Vulnerable Groups in Primary Care

Across Europe, inequities in contraception access persist, particularly among vulnerable groups who face medical, socioeconomical and cultural barriers. Family doctors are uniquely positioned to bridge these gaps by providing patient-centred, non-judgmental, and inclusive contraceptive care. This workshop offers participants the opportunity to engage with real-life challenges and explore practical strategies for improving contraceptive counselling for…

Experiencing Narrative Medicine: Enhancing Patient-Centered Care, Reflexivity and Well-being in General Practice

Narrative Medicine (NM), conceptualized by Rita Charon at Columbia University, is an innovative interdisciplinary approach that centers on the patient's illness experience through storytelling. By cultivating narrative competence—the ability to recognize, absorb, interpret, and be moved by patients’ stories—NM complements traditional evidence-based medicine. Systematic reviews have demonstrated its benefits, including increased empathy, reflexivity, interprofessional connection,…

Leading Wellbeing: Burnout as a Leadership Competency in Primary Care

Burnout is becoming a growing concern across primary care, affecting clinicians, managers and leaders alike. Too often it’s treated as a personal weakness or an individual responsibility, when in reality it reflects wider pressures in the system: rising demand, constant change, emotional labour and the strain of carrying multiple roles. This workshop offers a different…

A Collaborative Workshop to Map AI Proficiency and Educational Equity in Family Medicine

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing healthcare, but its integration into training remains uneven globally. This "digital divide" threatens equity in education of future doctors. While family physicians are expected to adopt these tools, we lack data on their actual proficiency and the availability of national training programs. To ensure technology serves humanism rather than replacing…

Spin, Steer, Empower: Integrating the Spider Web and Lifestyle Compass in GP Practice

Primary care consultations often focus on disease management, leaving limited time for broader well-being. The Positive Health framework, visualized through the “spider web,” and the Lifestyle Wheel (“Leefstijlroer”) offer practical tools to shift conversations toward resilience, meaningfulness, and self-management. This workshop introduces these concepts and demonstrates how they can be integrated into routine consultations to…

Bingo Ultrasound: A Fun and Effective Way to Build Core Ultrasound Skills in Primary Care

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is becoming an essential tool in primary care, enhancing diagnostic accuracy and improving clinical decision-making. However, many clinicians still feel insufficiently trained to use it confidently. This workshop uses a game-based approach to introduce key ultrasound concepts in an engaging and accessible way.By the end of the workshop, participants will be able…

Cultural Influences on the Experience of Menopause

Menopause is a universal biological transition, yet its meaning, symptom expression, and care-seeking behaviours vary widely across cultures. In many communities, menopause remains surrounded by stigma, silence, or misconceptions, shaping whether women report symptoms and how they interpret them. Some cultures view this life stage as a period of liberation or renewed identity, while others…