FPL 213-JDN Report-Oct2019

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THE WORLD MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, INC.
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no:
FPL 213/JDN Report/Oct2019 Original:
English
Title: Report of the Junior Doctors Network
(JDN) (April 2019 – September 2019)
Destination: Finance and Planning Committee
213th
Council Session
WMA General Assembly, Tbilisi 2019
Sheraton Grand Tbilisi Metechi Palace
Tbilisi, Georgia
23-26 October 2019
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The JDN Management team produces bi-yearly officers’ report, which highlights the activities of
individual team members and can be made available to NMAs upon request. Our working groups,
have seen growing productivity over the past year especially but not limited to the global surgery
and antimicrobial resistance work groups, with detailed reports in the individual workgroup reports
published to members biyearly.
We have this year, seen an impressively growing number of junior doctors from diverse
backgrounds globally, joining the JDN, attending our meetings and contributing to our activities.
We have continued to hold monthly teleconferences for the management team and general
membership. Our October meeting will hold in Tbilisi Georgia, 21 and 22 October 2019 with the
theme, ‘Gender equity in medical leadership, the role of future leaders’ with prominent speakers
and resource persons who have confirmed their attendance. We have chosen this theme carefully to
demonstrate our commitment to encouraging and fostering gender equity amongst us, the future
medical leaders. We have also started a webinar series on various topics of global interest, the first
of which took place prior to the United Nations High Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage
under the same theme.
We have had our yearly pre-WHA meeting in Ferney-Voltaire on 18 and 19 April 2019, with
support in place to enable our colleagues from all the over the world to live stream this event.
During the subsequent WHA, we gave daily reports from the meeting, which our colleagues found
helpful and insightful. This is a bold step in increasing the awareness of our colleagues of pressing
public health issues and encouraging them to join the debate locally. Various issues were discussed,
namely health workforce, universal health coverage, health emergencies, air pollution and
antimicrobial resistance.
We continue to contribute effectively to the work of the World Federation on Medical Education,
and were ably represented at the World Conference on Medical Education which held 1 – 10 April
2019. We have continued to collaborate with the European Junior Doctors EJD on topics of mutual
interest, and opening new collaborative networks with our colleagues in South America, Asia and
Africa. We also continue to foster our partnership with the IFMSA through continued collaboration
and coordination. The JDN currently chairs the Global Health Workforce Network Youth Hub at
the World Health Organisation.
We have seen increasing representation of Junior Doctors sponsored by NMAs, and will appeal that
more support is needed ensure participation of junior doctors, their future leaders in the JDN and
WMA in general.
We have as in previous years, seen the participation of JDN in several WMA activities, including
several opportunities to participate in WMA delegations to various meetings. The WMA leadership
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continues to take a leading role at actively and effectively encouraging and nurturing us, through
capacity building. Indeed, the future of the WMA is bright, with strong guaranties of capacity to
sustain the good work it is currently doing!
Dr Chukwuma Oraegbunam
Chair of the Junior Doctors Network
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07.10.19