Karnataka-level conference of family doctors in Mangaluru on October 20

Karnataka-level family doctors' conference in Mangaluru on October 20, 2024, focusing on past, present, and future of family medicine.

A Karnataka-level conference of family doctors will be held in Mangaluru on October 20, 2024, according to Annayya Kulal Ulthur, president, Mangalore Family Doctors’ Association.

The theme of the conference will be ‘past, present and future of family medicine system’, he said.

Mangaluru will host the State-level conference in the port city after a decade. The conference coincides with the 20th anniversary of the Mangalore Family Doctors’ Association, Dr. Kulal, also the State president of the College of General Practitioners, Karnataka chapter of the Indian Medical Association said.

Dr. Ulthur spoke at a Pneumonia workshop organised by the Mangalore Family Doctors’ Association in Mangaluru on Saturday, June 22.

Senior family doctors from across the State and country will be invited to the conference to discuss the challenges being faced by the family medicine system. Mangalore Family Doctors’ Association will also create awareness among MBBS students and internees on the importance of the family medicine system as the number of MBBS graduates practising family medicine is on the wane in the last a decade.

The objective of the conference is to sustain the family medicine system in the future.

He said that Sadashiva Polanaya is the honorary president of the conference.