Are you on the brink of burnout? And your colleagues? Learn to spot burnout among colleagues and provide timely support

Burnout affects many healthcare professionals, undermining both quality of care and team well-being. General practitioners play a pivotal role in detecting burnout early and supporting colleagues in distress. This lively interactive workshop will teach you the skills you need and show how to develop effective intervention strategies.By the end of the workshop, participants will be…

Family Medicine in Protracted Crises: Responsibility, Solidarity and the Practice of Care

Violent conflicts and prolonged crises increasingly undermine primary healthcare systems, generating forced displacement, poverty, and fragmented service delivery. In such settings, family doctors are often the most accessible and continuous point of care, while facing profound ethical, clinical, and organisational challenges. These contexts test core principles of family medicine, including equity, continuity of care, and commitment to the social determinants of health.Participants will be able to: 1. Identify key ethical and professional challenges faced by family doctors in protracted crisis settings. 2. Describe the main legal and ethical frameworks protecting healthcare workers and facilities in situations of crisis. 3. Analyse how disruption of primary care affects equity and social determinants of health. 4. Reflect on strategies to support professional responsibility, solidarity, and ethical decision-making under extremeconstraints.The workshop will combine short expert inputs with experience-based narratives and facilitated plenary discussion. Teaching methods will include brief structured presentations, practice-based reflection, and guided discussion to promote peer learning…

Health Care for All: Persistent Barriers for Marginalized Populations and Crisis-Driven Disruptions

Access to healthcare is a universal concern, yet its challenges are unevenly distributed. While the general population may face disruptions during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, marginalized populations including Roma and non-native-speaking communities experience persistent barriers even in routine care. These obstacles affect preventive services, chronic disease management, and care continuity. This workshop examines…

Training tomorrow’s family doctors in a virtual clinic today.

As medical education faces the challenge of training an increasing number of future family doctors (FDs), we must innovate to expand clinical teaching capacity without compromising educational quality. This workshop introduces the concept of utilizing virtual clinical settings as an extension of physical teaching capacity. We pose the question in the beginning: “How many students…

Setting research priorities for the WONCA Europe Social Prescribing and Community Orientation (SPCO) Special Interest Group

The World Health Organisation defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Historically the focus of healthcare delivery has been on diagnosing and treating disease, however there is a growing interest in Social Prescribing. Social Prescribing is a means to refer people with social,…

Social Determinants of Health in Primary Care: What Can GPs Actually Do?

Chronic non-communicable diseases are a major and growing challenge for primary care. Although general practitioners (GPs) routinely address lifestyle factors, these behaviours are strongly influenced by social determinants of health (SDH), including income, housing, education and social isolation. Interventions that fail to consider these determinants are often ineffective and may increase health inequalities.  Nearly 40 years after the Ottawa Charter, many GPs…