German Society for Internal Medicine

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German Society for Internal Medicine
(DGIM)
purpose Medical Society for Internal Medicine
Chair: Sebastian Schellong (2020/2021)
Establishment date: April 1882
Number of members: > 27,000
Seat : Wiesbaden
Website: dgim.de

The German Society for Internal Medicine eV (DGIM) is a medical-scientific specialist society for internists . It was founded in 1882 as the Congress for Internal Medicine .

As a non-profit association with around 27,000 members, the society pursues the exclusive and direct promotion of science and research in the entire field of internal medicine and its development as applied medicine. In addition to integrating the specialist areas of internal medicine, the focus is on maintaining relationships with the main scientific societies. Ordinary membership in DGIM eV can be applied for by any doctor who is licensed in Germany or abroad and who works in the field of internal medicine. The corporate membership of companies in the research-based industry and device manufacturers was added to the articles of association of DGIM in Section 4.

The DGIM works closely with the Professional Association of German Internists (BDI) in the field of professional policy and advanced training . She is a member of the Working Group of Scientific Medical Societies (AWMF). The latest research results in the main areas, as well as general medical topics, are presented and discussed every year at the internists' congress.

The goals include:

  • Promotion of young scientists
  • Securing internal medical care for patients as well as the transparency of processes and procedures in clinic and practice
  • Support of the interdisciplinary professional exchange with other medical-scientific specialist societies and associations in Germany and abroad
  • Representation of the interests of internal medicine as a science to state and municipal authorities as well as self-government organizations
  • Maintaining the unity of internal medicine in research, clinic and practice

history

On April 20, 1882, the "Congress for Internal Medicine" was founded in Wiesbaden. The organizing committee consisted of Professors Carl Gerhardt , Ernst von Leyden , Adolf Kussmaul , Eugen Seitz and the founding member and first chairman (1882 to 1885) of the Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs Congress , after whom the Theodor Frerichs Prize awarded by DGIM was named .

187 doctors attended the first opening event in the Wiesbaden Kurhaussaal. Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs was the first chairman and president of the congress. He headed the congress from 1882 to 1884. In 1920 the “Congress for Internal Medicine” was renamed the German Society for Internal Medicine. Many Jews had to leave the company under pressure from the board in 1933, including chairman Leopold Lichtwitz . He was succeeded in the chairmanship by Alfred Schittenhelm , who “quickly got the company on the Nazi course”.

After the Second World War , the first internists' congress was held in 1948. In 1958, the DGIM founds the Theodor Frerichs Prize, which annually honors the best German, if possible clinical-experimental, work in the field of internal medicine. In 1959 the last internist congress of both German states took place. On April 5, 1959, the DGIM founded the Professional Association of German Internists (BDI). As a counterweight to the DGIM, the GDR founds the German Society for Clinical Medicine on June 5, 1962. In 1982, the DGIM celebrated its 100th anniversary.

The first all-German internists' congress after reunification took place in 1990. The 100th Congress of the German Society for Internal Medicine was held in 1994 and the Gustav von Bergmann Medal was awarded for the first time . (Honoring outstanding scientists who decisively shaped internal medicine in Germany with their life's work). In 2007 DGIM celebrated its 125th anniversary. The 100th DGIM congress took place in 2010, with a total of 122 congresses. In 2010, as part of the process of coming to terms with its National Socialist past, the DGIM decided not to award the Gustav von Bergmann Medal any longer and to replace it with the Leopold Lichtwitz Medal , which was first awarded in 2014. At its congress in 2015, the DGIM presented an exhibition on its history during the Nazi era . In 2018 a study on the history of the DGIM from 1933 to 1970 was published at the universities of Bonn and Münster. Since 2020, the DGIM has been commemorating its members persecuted during National Socialism on a website; Victims of medical crimes and perpetrators are also named there.

Prices

The DGIM has awarded the following prizes:

  • The Theodor Frerichs Prize for the best submitted, preferably clinical-experimental work in the field of internal medicine (prize money: 30,000 euros).
  • The prevention prize (in cooperation with the German Foundation for Internal Medicine) for the best work presented in German or English in German or English in the field of primary and secondary prevention of internal diseases (prize money: 10,000 euros).
  • The Leopold Lichtwitz Medal honors “people who have distinguished themselves to an exceptional degree through their work and their commitment to the interests of internal medicine and the DGIM.” Since 2013, it has replaced Gustav-von-Bergmann, which was awarded from 1996 to 2010 -Medal , which in 1933 implemented without discussion in the faculty at the Berlin Charité that all Jews were released in 1933.
  • The Young Investigator Award for the best abstracts by first authors under 35 years of age in the fields of internal medicine, intensive care and emergency medicine, infectious diseases, geriatrics and epidemiology (prize money: 3,000, 2,000 and 1,000 euros).
  • Poster prizes are awarded for each of the 12 subjects. (Travel grant of 200 euros and other donations).
  • The Querdenker Prize , awarded to organizations and companies with innovations in the field of digitalization in medicine
  • The DGIM media prizes have been awarded since 2019 and recognize outstanding media reporting on internal medicine issues.

Promotion of young talent

A particular concern of the DGIM is the promotion of young internists. With various scientific prizes and grants, some of which are highly endowed, the professional association creates incentives for young scientists to get involved in internal medicine and especially in internal medicine research. As part of the internists' congress, it awards the Young Investigator Award and prizes for scientific posters for outstanding scientific work by young doctors from all internal medicine focuses. Since 2018, the DGIM has also been offering medical students from the 7th semester so-called guest access to the specialist society, which brings some advantages of regular membership.

Commissions

The standing commissions and task forces support the board and committee of the DGIM in fulfilling their scientific, scientific and professional policy tasks. They develop opinions, resolutions or position papers on specific topics. The society publishes the results in its own publications.

  • Commission "Drug Therapy Management and Drug Therapy Safety"
  • Commission "Education, Further Education and Training"
  • Consensus Commission "Decide Smartly"
  • Commission "Guidelines, Diagnostics and Therapy"
  • Mobile Health Commission
  • "Program Commission" commission
  • Commission "Structure - Health Care"
  • "Telemedicine" Commission
  • "Transition" commission
  • Committee "Science - Promotion of Young Scientists"
  • Task Force "Infectiology"

Congress of internists

The DGIM annually organizes the congress of the German Society for Internal Medicine in the Rhein-Main-Hallen in Wiesbaden. During the annual DGIM conference, internists receive four days of training in all areas of internal medicine. Due to the new construction of the Rhein-Main-Hallen, the DGIM held its congress in the Congress Center Rosengarten in Mannheim up to and including 2018.

Persons named by the DGIM as experts give lectures and symposia on current medical findings and discuss questions of health policy. In plenary lectures, personalities from medicine, science, society and politics address controversial topics of the time. Practical courses and interactive case discussions will take place parallel to the lecture program. The internist congress also offers a platform for the next generation. Young scientists have the opportunity to present their research results to the specialist public in poster sessions. A large trade exhibition rounds off the congress offer. The industry uses the annual conference to present its innovations. It also invites you to satellite symposia. As part of Continuing Medical Education (CME), doctors can acquire advanced training points with attending the congress.

Publications of the society

  • DGIM - Speeches of the Chairpersons 1982-2010, ISBN 978-3-13-104582-9 .
  • For the unit of internal medicine - 125 years of the German Society for Internal Medicine eV, ISBN 978-3-00-021148-5 .
  • Internal medicine through the ages - From the opening speeches of the internist congresses 1882-1961, ISBN 978-3-89935-247-4 .
  • 125 years of the German Society for Internal Medicine eV - The unit of internal medicine, DVD.
  • The German Society for Internal Medicine during the Nazi era, ISBN 978-3-00-049197-9
  • 125 years of internist congresses, ISBN 978-3-89935-239-9

Publication organs

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DGIM organization chart . Retrieved March 22, 2017.
  2. ^ The DGIM in the time of National Socialism - exhibition opens with the Central Council of Jews. ( Memento of May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) DGIM press release of April 19, 2015.
  3. ^ Ralf Forsbach / Hans-Georg Hofer, The German Society for Internal Medicine in the Nazi Era. Exhibition on the occasion of the 121st Congress of the German Society for Internal Medicine 18. – 21. April 2015 in Mannheim, Stuttgart 2015.
  4. ^ Ralf Forsbach / Hans-Georg Hofer, internists in dictatorship and young democracy. The German Society for Internal Medicine 1933–1970, Berlin 2018.
  5. ^ Commemorating and remembering the DGIM
  6. ↑ DGIM: Promotion of young talent . February 7, 2018 ( dgim.de [accessed February 26, 2018]).
  7. ↑ DGIM: Unconventional Thinker Award . May 18, 2017 ( dgim.de [accessed May 31, 2017]).
  8. ^ DGIM: Medical Students . February 19, 2018 ( dgim.de [accessed February 26, 2018]).
  9. ↑ DGIM: Promotion of young talent . February 7, 2018 ( dgim.de [accessed February 26, 2018]).
  10. ^ Board of Directors and Committees , DGIM. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
  11. ^ Congress , DGIM. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
  12. ↑ Online Academy , DGIM. Retrieved March 22, 2017.