Medical Council

The term medical council was and is used internationally in different meanings both as a personal title and as a designation of a body.

Professional titles by country

Prussia

In Prussia , the " Sanitätsrat " was an honorary title for doctors and medical officers until 1918 . However, the title was mostly awarded to non- civil servants who had been in the practice for more than 20 years. As a higher level there was the " secret medical council ".

Federal Republic of Germany

Also in some federal states of today's Federal Republic of Germany , for example in Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate , the personal title “ Sanitätsrat ” has been awarded to particularly deserving doctors as a non-academic title, following the Prussian model, since 1945 . The award is made by the Minister of Health, in Rhineland-Palatinate by the Prime Minister.

German Democratic Republic

As in the Federal Republic of Germany, the title “ Sanitätsrat ” was also awarded to doctors and dentists in the German Democratic Republic in recognition of meritorious work in the non-state healthcare system. Prerequisite was at least 20 years of medical or dental work.

Proposals for the award of this title had to be submitted to the Minister of Health of the GDR or the chairman of the responsible council of the district , who then decided on the proposals in agreement with the health service union. The title was awarded on December 11th, Health Care Day .

Board by country

Austria

In Austria , the Supreme Sanitary Council (OSR) is a medical-scientific body and is part of the Ministry of Health and comprises 39 experts in medicine , care, health planning and financing. They are appointed for three years each. The legal basis is a law from 1879, which is still in force today. He advises the Ministry of Health on all fundamental medical questions and issues reports.

At the state level, the (state) medical councils act in a similar way, and they also draw up assessments of doctors applying for important professional positions.

Italy

As in Austria, in Italy there was a senior medical council under the Ministry of the Interior and medical councils functioned in the individual provinces and districts , and medical commissions in the municipalities .

Switzerland

In 1832 the medical commission was created to fight cholera . It became the most important body in the medical sector and was only later renamed the Medical Council .

In the 19th century, the cantons and communes were not administered by departments or directorates, but by colleges. This resulted in numerous committees and councils. For example the military council or the education council. The Medical Council was responsible for the health system.

In the law of February 20, 1865, the tasks and the members of the medical council were described. The medical council was a police commission that dealt with health issues. The sanitary council included the chief of police, three doctors and a veterinarian.

The tasks of the Sanitary Council included the development and maintenance of regulations and ordinances for the attention of the government council . Furthermore, the issuing and monitoring of operating licenses and professional patents. Since the medical council was a cantonal affair, the tasks were different.

With the formation of the directorates, such as the health directorate, these councils were abolished. This did not happen in all of Switzerland at the same time. In the canton of Basel-Landschaft , for example, the medical council was not repealed until 1984, after 151 years.

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• Entry on social medicine in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Order of the GDR on the award of the titles " Medical Councilor ", " Pharmazierat ", "Sanitätsrat", "Obermedizinalrat" and "Oberpharmazierat" from June 1, 1978

See also

• Medical Council
• advice

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate Beck appoints judicial, economic and medical councilors. Retrieved December 15, 2016.
2. ↑ Supreme Sanitary Council ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. November 9, 2008, accessed April 29, 2011. 
3. ^ Information from Marco Jorio , editor-in-chief of the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland (HLS), information from January 2013
4. ^ State Archives Baselland , Chronicle January 1984, Health Service. Retrieved December 15, 2016