EYFDM

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  • Fons Sips Award 2025 – Call open

    Fons Sips Award 2025 – Call open

    In 2016, the Fons Sips Outstanding Achievement Award was created in honour of the contributions of one of EYFDM’s (at that time VdGM) founding fathers, Alphons Jacobus Ignatius. It was created in order to ensure that the heritage and history of the movement was not forgotten and in order to recognise great work and contribution of its members. The Fons Sips Outstanding Achievement Award remains first and foremost the chance for EYFDM members to appreciate their colleagues’ achievements and passion for Family Medicine, as well as their commitment to EYFDM community. It continues to be an award “by the members, for the members”.

    The Fons Sips winner is the EYFDM Rising Star Award nominee for WONCA Rising Star Award 2025.

    Nominations will be requested from the EYFDM members, therefore the nominator must be a “young doctor”, meaning family medicine/general practice trainee or within 5 years of completing the training.

    Nominee must be:

    1. A “young doctor”, meaning family medicine/general practice trainee or within 5 years of completing her/his training (the status must be still valid by the month of WONCA World Conference 2025)
    2. A registered member of a WONCA Europe National Member Organisation

      Documents

      To nominate a colleague, please provide:

      1. A letter of consent from the nominee saved as „Name of the nominee_Consent_ FSA2025″
      2. Evidence of the nominee’s “young doctor” status saved as „Name of the nominee_Status_ FSA2025″
      3. A completed template of a nomination letter outlining why the nominee should be considered for the award saved as „Name of the nominee_NL_FSA2025″

      All documents and potential questions should be sent to our Awards Officer. All documents should be sent by the 31th of March 2025.
      The winner of the Fons Sips Outstanding Achievement Award will be informed about the results by 7th of April 2025 and the award will be announced during the 9th EYFDM Forum in Grand Region (25-27 April 2025). The winner of the WONCA World Rising Star Award will be announced during WONCA World Conference in Lisbon (17- 21 September 2025).

      FONS SIPS CALL 2025Download

    1. Holiday Greetings 2024

      Holiday Greetings 2024

      The year is ending and the festive season is here! We would like to share our season’s greetings with you! Thank you to all our amazing national delegates and members that collaborated to bring you some holiday spirit:

      We hope you all have a joyous time.

    2. Annual Report 23-24

      Annual Report 23-24

      Get a glimpse what we have been up to in the last 12 months, check the annual EYFDM report below. The yearly report was approved by the council in Dublin.

      Some highlights:

      EYFDM Annual Report 2024-1Download

    3. JOIN THE EXECUTIVE: CALL FOR TREASURER

      JOIN THE EXECUTIVE: CALL FOR TREASURER

      We are pleased to open calls for applications to the position of Treasurer on the Executive. Please find the role description below.
      This will be an online election:

      • the deadline to submit applications (see documents list below) to secretary is 27th October 2024
      • these will be vetted and circulated to council on 28th October 2024, they will have 1 week to submit questions
      • questions will be circulated to the candidates on 3rd November 2024, with 1 week to submit responses
      • these responses will be shared with council and the vote opened on 10th November, closing on 17th November with the outcome announced.

      The elections organisational policy can be found here.
      Candidates should be a young doctor and a member of their NMO.

      The required documents for election are as follows:
      ○ Curriculum Vitae
      ○ Motivational Letter
      ○ Proof of membership of their NMO
      ○ Proof of young doctor status
      ○ An essential letter of recommendation from their National Delegate if the candidate is not themselves a National Delegate, or from their NEC if the candidate is a National Delegate themselves and their country has a NEC.
      ○ Up to three desirable letters of recommendation:
      ■ From their NMO
      ■ A maximum of two letters from other EYFDM members

      Candidates will also need to submit a 3 minute video presentation to accompany their application.

      Please contact secretary if you have any questions!

      Treasurer Role DescriptionDownload
    4. Upcoming vacancies

      Upcoming vacancies

      Dear EYFDM Members,

      We are pleased to announce that we have two upcoming vacancies on the EYFDM Executive. Stuart Holmes will finish his Presidency in 2025, so a new President Elect will be elected this year. Ana Cristina Franco Spinola’s term as Policy Officer is also ending, and while she is unsure if she will restand, we encourage applications. Please click on the links below to read more about the role descriptions.
      – President Elect
      – Policy Officer

      The elections will take place in September.

      • Candidates must be:
      • member of their WONCA Europe National Member Organization (NMO)
      • trainee family medicine specialist or within 5 years of qualifying
      • Not an active member of the Executive or Council of WONCA Europe or WONCA World

      The following documents are required:

      • Curriculum Vitae
      • Motivational Letter
      • National Member Organization (NMO) membership proof
      • Young doctor status proof
      • Essential letter of recommendation from their National Delegate (from their National Exchange Coordinator if the candidate is a National Delegate themselves and their country has a NEC)
      • Up to 3 desirable letters of recommendation:
        • From their NMO
        • A maximum of 2 letters from other EYFDM members

      See EYFDM Elections Policy which details the full eligibility criteria and the required documents to apply.

      Applications are now open, the deadline to apply is 27th August 2024.

      To apply, ask questions or get more information, please email secretary.  

    5. Happy World Family Doctor Day

      Happy World Family Doctor Day

      Dear colleagues, Happy World Family Doctor Day!
      This year we celebrate with the theme:

      Healthy People, Healthy Planet

      Watch this great video by Wonca World below and be sure to share it.

      If you haven’t yet be sure to check the Planetary Health Repository, full of resources and information to help you make this year theme a reality.

      Aligned with this year theme and the 2023 WONCA Europe’s Family Medicine Definition, three members of the executive, with two other family doctors, published an article on Sustainable Healthcare Knowledge and WONCA Europe’s New Family Medicine Definition.

      Advocating for urgent global issues is only possible if adequate knowledge is possessed and effectively communicated. Raising awareness on the new definition of Family Medicine by WONCA Europe is therefore pivotal to positively impact our communities, patients, and the environment.

      Spínola ACF, Humay Arman I, Bentounsi Z, Cordovil C, Gökdemir Ö. WONCA Europe’s New Family Medicine Definition and Sustainable Healthcare Knowledge. AJFAMED 2024;7(1):44–45

      The European Definition Of General Practice / Family Medicine – Wonca Europe 2023 Edition

    6. The EYFDM Podcast

      The EYFDM Podcast

      We are happy to release our new Podcast!


      If you are on your way to the Vienna Forum have a listen. The third episode will be released next week, so make sure to subscribe to listen first hand!


      Please help us with your feedback once you are done listening to the first episodes. Be sure to also rate, review and share.
      We appreciate your feedback! Enjoy our podcast!

    7. YOUR EYFDM NEEDS YOU! UPCOMING VACANCIES

      We have 5 executive positions coming to the end of their terms at the June council meeting in Brussels. Elections will be held for the roles of Secretary, Treasurer, Awards and Fundraising Officer, Exchange Officer and Image Officer. Please find the relevant role descriptions by clicking on the links above, as well as the Elections Organisational Policy which details eligibility criteria and the elections process.

      Kerry Greenan will run for a second term as Secretary, and Marta Kurdzielewicz for second term as Awards and Fundraising Officer. The other roles are currently otherwise uncontested. However applications are welcome for all roles, regardless of whether current officers are standing for re-election.
      Please consider applying, and also share this with anyone who you think might be interested in applying for the roles! If you have any questions or would like to have a discussion with existing executive members, please email secretary@eyfdm.eu and this can be arranged.

      We invite eligible candidates to apply, by sending the following documents to secretary@vdgm.eu by 6th May 2023. Successful candidates must be available to present their application at the Council Meeting on 5th June 2023.

      ○ Curriculum Vitae
      ○ Motivational Letter
      ○ Proof of membership of their NMO
      ○ Proof of young doctor status
      ○ An essential letter of recommendation from their National Delegate if the candidate is not themselves a National Delegate, or from their NEC if the candidate is a National Delegate themselves and their country has a NEC.
      ○ Up to three desirable letters of recommendation:
      ■ From their NMO
      ■ A maximum of two letters from other EYFDM members

    8. Our new logo

      Dear Friends,

      a big moment for our still young organisation.

      The comprehensive process of choosing our future identity was sucessfully completed. The last step, after council selected from strong candidates, was finalising the new logo.

      The website is still work in progress and will receive a personalized template and more content needs to be transferred and added in some sections. As this is much simpler now we can assure you there will be more updates than before.