The MAFP is offering a family medicine fellowship program to 5 selected general practitioners since July 2023.

The MAFP celebrated this year World Family Doctor Day with a webinar conducted under the theme chosen by WONCA ‘Healthy Planet, Healthy People’.

Point of Care Ultrasonography (POCUS) training was provided to the teachers and students of the fellowship program at the Standard Family Medicine Clinic.

A team of MAFP delegates, including 3 faculty members and 3 trainees, attended the Shin Kong Hospital Medical Assistance Program to Myanmar (SKMM) at the Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan. The 2023 SKMM training program had two tracts: 2-week and 1-month. All MAFP delegates chose to attend the 2-week training, from 25 December 2023 to 5 January 2024.

During the business trip to Taiwan for the SKMM training program, the MAFP delegation met with the WONCA Asia Pacific Regional President, Dr Brian Chang, and the chair of the Rajakumar movement (young doctors’ movement of WONCA APR), Dr Chang Ping-Hsun on December 30, 2023, in Shihlin District, Taipei City. The MAFP delegation included the membership program manager Dr Lwin May Oo, the academic consultant Dr Tin Tin Hla, and the academic director Dr Mya Win Hnit.

Shin Kong Hospital delegates visit MAFP Family Medicine CenterOctober 9, 2023, YangonThe delegation from the Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital

MAFP organized a webinar in the afternoon of the World Family Doctor Day to celebrate this international event with Myanmar family doctors.

The MAFP is moving forward under the family medicine development program by opening an academic family medicine clinic in Yangon.

The first face-to-face WONCA Asia Pacific Regional Conference was held in Bali from December 5 to 7, 2022 since COVID-19 pandemic started. Dr Mya Win Hnit, a faculty of Myanmar Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) attended the WONCA APR Bali Conference as the only delegate from Myanmar.

The Myanmar Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP), in cooperation with the General Practitioners’ Society, and with the generous support of the Shin Kong Life Foundation and Shin Kong Hospital, were pleased to present a Continuing Medical Education webinar for primary care doctors to discuss the evolving landscape of COVID-19 management.