Association of Swiss doctors
| Association of Swiss Doctors (FMH) |
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|---|---|
| purpose | Professional association |
| Chair: |
Jürg Schlup (President) Ursina Pally Hofmann (General Secretary) |
| Establishment date: | 1901 |
| Number of members: | 40,100 (Jan. 1, 2016) |
| Seat : | Bern , Switzerland |
| Website: | www.fmh.ch |
The Association of Swiss Doctors (FMH, French Fédération des médecins suisses , Italian Federazione dei medici svizzeri ) is a professional association of Swiss doctors . The abbreviation FMH stands for the Latin form of the name: Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum .
organization
The FMH is organized as an association and represents the interests of the medical profession in matters across Switzerland. It has over 40,000 members. At the same time, it is the umbrella organization for over 70 basic and specialist organizations: the cantonal medical associations, the medical specialist societies , the Association of Swiss Assistant and Senior Doctors (VSAO) and the Association of Leading Hospital Doctors in Switzerland (VLSS). The prerequisite for membership in the FMH is a federal or equivalent medical diploma as well as previous or current work in the health sector. Ordinary members also acquire membership in one of the grassroots organizations.
Various bodies perform the functions necessary for association policy. The highest body is - after the totality of all members - the Medical Association. This “ parliament ” of the FMH meets twice a year and has 200 voting delegates from the grassroots and specialist organizations. The medical association determines the main features of the association's policy, monitors the other organs and makes binding decisions for all members.
The central board is the leading body of the FMH. He represents the FMH to the authorities and the public and is involved in numerous health care institutions. Among other things, it works out the political and strategic objectives and implements the resolutions of the Medical Association and the Assembly of Delegates. Its members are elected by the Medical Association for four years.
The assembly of delegates consists of 33 members of the umbrella organizations who meet five to six times a year. The assembly of delegates deals with all important health and social affairs and determines the political framework for action in accordance with the content of the medical association.
The General Secretariat acts as the staff unit of the FMH. It is responsible for the coordination between the strategic-political and the operational level of the FMH.
tasks
The FMH stands up for the interests of its members, for a quality of treatment for patients and for affordable medical care. In the political and legislative decision-making process, she contributes, among other things, the medical point of view, works on the design and maintenance of the tariff structures and acts with the doctors' own Swiss Academy for Quality in Medicine SAQM as a contact person for medical quality issues at national level.
As an autonomous body of the FMH, the Swiss Institute for Medical Further and Further Education (SIWF) is responsible for issuing federal further training titles for medical specialists , issuing further training and further training regulations and certifying clinics and medical practices as recognized further training facilities. The Medical Professions Act (MedBG) forms the basis for the activities of the SIWF.
history
The professional association emerged in the 19th century from the amalgamation of various cantonal and regional medical associations in what is now Switzerland. As early as 1788, enlightened doctors founded the first Swiss civil society - the Helvetic Society of Corresponding Doctors and Surgeons. The first intercantonal society - the Société médicale de la Suisse romande - was founded in 1867. Three years later, the “Medical Central Association of Switzerland” was formed from the German-Swiss medical associations and the medical organization of Italian-speaking Switzerland. These two intercantonal societies merged in 1901 to form the largest medical organization in Switzerland - the "Association of Swiss Doctors". The association has been publishing the “ Schweizerische Ärztezeitung ” since 1920 . The general secretariat in Bern was established in 1923.
The first central president of the Swiss medical profession was the St. Gallen doctor Jakob Laurenz Sonderegger . In June 2012, Jürg Schlup was elected President, in December 2012 he replaced Jacques de Haller , who had been in office since 2004.
Memberships in international organizations
The FMH also follows the developments in the health care system on an international level. She is an active member of numerous organizations inside and outside Europe.
- CPME (Comité Permanent des Médecins Européens)
- WMA (World Medical Association)
- UEMO (European Union of General Practitioners)
- UEMS (European Union of Medical Specialists)
- EFMA (European Forum of Medical Associations & WHO)
- AEMH (Association Européenne des Médecins des Hôpitaux)
- EANA (European Association of Resident Doctors)
- CEOM (Conference Européenne des Ordres des Médecins)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ FMH membership statistics 2015 Retrieved on April 22, 2016.
- ↑ Requirements for membership in the FMH Retrieved on August 15, 2014.
- ^ Organization of the FMH.Retrieved on August 15, 2014.
- ^ Website of the Swiss Academy for Quality in Medicine SAQM.Retrieved on September 19, 2014.
- ↑ Website of the Swiss Institute for Medical Education and Training (SIWF). Accessed on September 19, 2014.
- ↑ Medizinalberufegesetz (MedBG) Retrieved on September 19, 2014.
- ↑ Hans Heinrich Brunner: 100 years of FMH: The connection between Swiss doctors and FMH in the Janus face of history . In: Swiss Medical Journal . No. 51-52, 2001, pp. 2659-2665.
- ↑ Jürg Schlup new senior doctor. In: NZZ of June 8, 2012.
- ↑ International connections of the FMH. Accessed on September 19, 2014.