The Vasco da Gama movement is the WONCA Europe working group for young and future General Practitioners. The movement is the continuation of the work that was started during the first preconference meeting for junior doctors during the WONCA Europe conference in Amsterdam in 2004.

The ideals were set down in a meeting in January 2005 in Lisbon, the home port of Vasco da Gama, from where he set out on a similar voyage of discovery, and for this reason his name has been applied to the movement.

It was formally launched at the Kos WONCA Europe Conference in September 2005.

Successful Pre-conferences have been held in Florence 2006, Paris 2007 and Istanbul 2008.

We are looking forward to continued success in Basel in 2009.