TY - JOUR T1 - Viewpoint: Oompa Loompa Doompadah Dee … JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 23 LP - 23 DO - 10.3399/bjgp17X688597 VL - 67 IS - 654 AU - Rachel Phillips Y1 - 2017/01/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/67/654/23.abstract N2 - Rachel pictured with her godson.‘You were where?‘ comes the incredulous response. ‘WONCA’, I repeat, doing my best to look professional. But I don’t blame them. When I first googled ‘international conference for family medicine’ looking for inspiration at the start of my GP training I wasn’t at all convinced I had found what I was looking for. WONCA just doesn’t sound plausible. It took three conferences to work out that it stands for the World Organization of National Colleges and Academies of General Practitioners. By then I had discovered the social agenda of the conference — to charm a junior Dutch GP into giving you one of their exclusive ‘golden tickets’ to their free party — and it was too late to stop thinking Chocolate Factory.Having navigated my way through Lisbon 2014, Istanbul 2015, and Copenhagen 2016, … ER -