PRICE at International WONCA conference

Dr. Wongani Kumwenda is a first year MMed in the Nkhoma family medicine program, and she recently attended the WONCA conference in Sydney, Australia. Her case report was accepted, which was titled “How to get an informed consent in a setting of language barrier,” which brought a lot of reflection on how low-income settings can bridge the gap of non-specific informed consents and how patients can be engaged in shared decision-making, in a context where many patients have low literacy levels.

It was Dr. Kumwenda’s first time going to a country outside Africa and going together with the KUHeS Family Medicine head of department Dr. Martha Makwero made the experience even better. During the conference, she was able to appreciate how various generalists and trainees are impacting their community, especially through research, as research helps to address gaps with better interventions that can apply to the individual community and patient.

This conference attendance was made possible by NORHED-PRICE, Dioraphte and Africa Mission Healthcare. The next regional WONCA is in Kenya and Dr. Kumwenda urges different stakeholders to sponsor registrars to attend, as it is a good platform for a young doctor to be connected to other doctors as mentors and also be inspired in research.

We got this report from the newsletter of Kamuzu University of Health Sciences,  Family Medicine Department, Malawi.