Milestones – World Young Doctors' Organization

2017

Celebration of World Young Doctors’ Day 2017 “Access to Healthcare”, 24 June 2017
Appointment of the new WYDO Board 2017-2019 – June

Celebration of World Young Doctors’ Day 2016 “Reform in Healthcare” – 24 June 2016
Memorandum of Understanding with Armenian Association of Young Doctors – May
Presentation on WYDO at Russian National Congress “Man and medicine”- 13 April 2016
Appointed a new National Focal Point for Nepal – April
Partnership with 3D4Medical to provide 20% discount on the App Complete Anatomy – April

Memorandum of Understanding with Section of young scientists of Russian National Internet Society of Internists, November
Memorandum of Understanding with Promise Global, November
Appointed the National Focal Point for Mexico – November
Appointed National Focal Point for India – August
WYDO is a supporting organization of Healthcare Information for All (HIFA): http://www.hifa2015.org/how-organisations-support-hifa2015/sos/, June
Membership of the NCD Alliance: http://ncdalliance.org/who-we-are, May
Kick off of Global Working Group on Working Conditions for Young Doctors – May
WYDO joined the Born Safe Global campaign about safer surgery for safer childbirth (www.bornsafeglobal.org) – May
Ebola conference in partnership with WYDO, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: www.conference-ebola.com, 21-23 April 2015
Appointment of World Young Doctors’ Day 2015 team members – April
Appointed National Focal Point for Tanzania – March
WYDO represented at the 16th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 17-21 March 2015
Appointed National Focal Point for Senegal – February

Third WYDO board meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, 28-30 November 2014
Endorsement of Do Hawood project – November
Appointed National Focal Point for Nigeria and Paraguay – July
World Young Doctors Day 2014 – theme: Working Conditions of Young Doctors – 24 June 2014
Appointment of software developer for the Residency Database project – May
Appointment of members for WHO’s Task Force for e-Health and e-Learning on behalf of WYDO – April
Appointment of World Young Doctors’ Day 2014 team members, National Focal Point for Sudan & Editor for the Speakers’ Corner – April
WYDO joined the Make It Zero campaign against unsafe surgery (www.makeitzero.org/) – March

Appointed News Reporter – December
WYDO Participants registration and WYDO Community list opened – December
Medical brain drain, A neglected global health component, published in Global Medicine, issue 16, September 2013
Endorsement of Prayesh Project in Nepal – September
Appointed new WYDO Board, Editor for Speakers’ corner and National Focal Point for Bangladesh – August
Appointed Editor for Speakers’ corner, a programmer/webdeveloper and National Focal Point for Russia – July
First World Young Doctors’ Day, 24 June 2013
Appointed an editor for the Speakers’ Corner – June
Appointed a project coordinator for the Residency Database – April
Appointed National Focal Point for Indonesia and Republic of Macedonia – February
Memorandum of Understanding with Hellenic Medical Students’ International Committee (HelMSIC) regarding the Residency Database – February
Announced 24 June as World Young Doctors’ Day – January
Appointed National Focal Point for Egypt and Ethiopia and Editor for the Speakers’ Corner – January

Appointed National Focal Point for Turkey – December
Appointed new Secretary General, Publications Officer and National Focal Point for Greece – November
Appointed Project Coordinators for a project about the financial crisis – October
Paul Yonga, NFP Kenya, received New Voices in Global Health Award for his study on brain drain. He presented the study on brain drain at the World Health Summit. Abstract is available at: http://download.thelancet.com/flatcontentassets/pdfs/new-voices/newvoices2012-20.pdf – 22 October 2012
Memorandum of Understanding with Global Medicine – September
Memorandum of Understanding with the Doctors Society of Nepal (DSON) – September
Second WYDO board meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, 24-26 August 2012
First online Debate Weekend on forum.localhost:8082, 20-22 July 2012
A rapid response from WYDO was published in BMJ, 8 June 2012
Appointed National Focal Point for Pakistan – May
Appointed National Focal Point for Kenya and Committee Director – April
WYDO represented at the 15th World Conference on Tobacco Or Health, Singapore, 20-24 March 2012
Appointed National Focal Points for Cote d’Ivoire, Niger, Oman and Portugal – March
Appointed National Focal Point for United Arab Emirates – January

WYDO represented at the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Region Seminar on Universal Health Coverage in Beirut, Lebanon, 13-15 December 2011
Appointed National Focal Points for Burkina Faso and Saudi Arabia – November
WYDO represented at the European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Stockholm, Sweden, 6-8 November 2011
Appointed National Focal Points for Bulgaria, Colombia and Poland – October
WYDO represented at the 5th Vaccine and ISV Annual Global Congress in Seattle, USA, 2-4 October 2011
Appointed Publication Officer (Portugal) and Fundraising Officer (India) and the first six National Focal Points (Austria, Costa Rica, Egypt, Nepal, Spain, Peru) – September
WYDO represented at the World Congress of Epidemiology in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 7-11 August 2011
WYDO represented at the IFMSA General Assembly and Alumni meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1-7 August 2011
Launch of WYDO with the website, forum and newsletter. The announcement was sent to over 1000 people from 94 countries and posted on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. (17 July 2011)
Constitution signed at the notary and WYDO registered in the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (24 June 2011)
First WYDO board meeting in Berlin, Germany (23-25 April 2011)