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…

Ethics and Decolonising Principles in Global Health

Selfcare is an important element of GP's health care, aimed – among other things, at preventing burnout. Unfortunately, it's often omitted, both during medical studies and postgraduate training. This workshop addresses this issue by exploring possible strategies, with the goal of equipping family physicians with tools to make this difficult task easier.Identifying selfcare needs and…

Making Sense of COPD

COPD is underdiagnosed and mistreated in primary care due to challenges of objective diagnostic testing; confusion about the relative value of different interventions to the patient and the healthcare system and the accessibility of evidence-based interventions. This workshop will use three innovative primary care teaching tools, grounded in the latest scientific evidence and piloted in…

Drama Proof your Life in General Practice and Beyond…

Join us for this fun, interactive transformational coaching session to explore the Drama Triangle and reframe to the Winner's Triangle. The Drama Triangle is a psychological model of human behaviour describing dysfunctional interactions and roles within relationships or conflict with recurring destructive patterns.  It is a subconscious game of power with three primary roles: victim,…

Exploring the Strengths of Family Medicine (Education) across Europe using Rich Pictures

WONCA is a unique platform to exchange ideas and knowledge with colleagues from diverse backgrounds. Such meetings foster mutual learning, professional growth, and provide opportunities to showcase research methods as practical tools, ultimately with the goal of improving patient care. This workshop highlights the value of collaboration and personal interaction in advancing Family Medicine.Learn from…

POCUS in European Primary Care: Policies, Practices, and Perspectives — A Delphi-Based Interactive Workshop

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is increasingly used in primary care across Europe, yet significant variations persist in training pathways, certification systems, reimbursement mechanisms, and clinical adoption. A working group of the European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB) recently conducted a comparative analysis identifying ultrasound examinations that can be performed in primary…

Making Artificial Intelligence (AI) an Ally, Not an Autopilot: A Practical DEFT-AI Approach for GP Educators

During clinical placements in general practice, medical students increasingly turn to artificial intelligence tools to support diagnostic reasoning, information retrieval and communication tasks. This behavior often emerges spontaneously, without explicit guidance. For supervising clinicians, this creates both uncertainty and opportunity: AI can enrich learning, but it may also undermine critical thinking, confidentiality or professional judgement…