NAV-Virchow-Bund
The NAV-Virchow-Bund , Association of Resident Doctors in Germany eV, or VirchowBund for short , is a professional association that promotes the interests of resident physicians in all specialist areas who are willing to settle and work on an outpatient basis vis-à-vis politics, the general public, medical self-administration and other health care providers represents at federal and state level.
The association was founded in Cologne in 1949 . The federal association has its headquarters and offices in Berlin and is divided into 15 regional associations with a total of around 12,000 members.
history
After the end of the war, the resident doctors tried to implement their interests in working groups. The first regional associations were founded in North Rhine-Westphalia and Hamburg in early 1949 . These united during the Doctors' Day in Hanover from September 2nd to 4th, 1949 to form the "Association of Resident Non-Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Germany" (NKV).
Further regional associations were formed under the chairmanship of Hanswolf Muschallik and his managing director Kaspar Roos. The NKV, now active at the federal level, had the primary goal of enabling all doctors who had their qualifications to practice to be admitted to the work of statutory health insurance physicians. The NKV therefore initiated a constitutional lawsuit, which in 1960 led to the free admission of all doctors to health insurance. As a result, the Association of Resident Doctors in Germany (NKV) was renamed in the mid-1950s to “Association of Resident Doctors in Germany eV” (NAV).
Under the chairmanship of Kaspar Roos (1952–1982), the NAV made a name for itself from an emergency community, which had arisen from the threatened existence of its members, to a professional association. The integration of health policy into a broad social policy determined the task. This is evidenced, among other things, by the judgment of the Federal Social Court on the basic admissibility of the joint practice from the year 1983. This judgment created the basis for today's group practices, but also for the medical care centers enabled in the Statutory Health Insurance Modernization Act since 2004 .
In autumn 1990 the merger with the Rudolf-Virchow-Bund , the first free medical association in the GDR, was decided. This was founded on November 21, 1989 in the lecture hall of the Dermatology Clinic of the Charité and named after the former Charité doctor and politician Rudolf Virchow .
The NAV-Virchow-Bund is an associated member of the Spitzenverband Fachärzte Deutschlands eV (SpiFa) and has been the chairman of the board since 2015.
Previous Federal Chair
- 1949–1953 Hans Wolf Muschallik
- 1953–1982 Kaspar Roos
- 1982–1994 Erwin Hirschmann
- 1994-2006 Maximilian Zollner
- 2006–2010 Klaus Bittmann
- 2010– Dirk Heinrich
Kaspar Roos Medal
Since 1992, the NAV-Virchow-Bund has awarded the Kaspar Roos Medal annually "to a doctor who has made a special contribution to the reputation of the medical profession through an exemplary medical attitude or through successful professional work."
Brendan Schmittmann Foundation
The “Brendan Schmittmann Foundation of the NAV Virchow Association” was established on March 25, 1974 as a foundation under private law. It is a research and advisory institute serving general practitioners and their patients. It deals with essential topics of the NAV-Virchow-Bund such as cooperation in the health system, health promotion and prevention, quality promotion and improving the effectiveness of medical work. The focus of the work is on research projects on current health policy topics and practice-oriented training and advice for doctors and their practice staff.
The foundation is named after the Berlin doctor Brendan Schmittmann (1916–1970), who was chairman of the Berlin Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, a member of the board of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians and President of the Berlin Medical Association. He initiated the development of a structured health insurance system in Berlin as the organizer of the so-called Berlin doctors' strike in 1952 and by obtaining an administrative court judgment against the Senate. Brendan Schmittmann campaigned for practical medical training by initiating the "German Congress for Medical Training" and as managing director of the Berlin Congress Society.
See also
- Marburg Federation
- Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians
- Hartmannbund
- Association of Democratic Doctors
- Top Association of Specialists in Germany