Saxon State Medical Association

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The Saxon State Medical Association is the public professional representation for doctors in the Free State of Saxony . On the basis of the Saxon Medical Professions Act, it is authorized to regulate its own professional, professional policy and professional law matters. Its headquarters are in the building of the same name in the Albertstadt district of Dresden .

House of the Saxon State Medical Association 2019

history

In January / February 1990 a Saxon delegation headed by the then district doctor Jürgen Kleditzsch traveled to Stuttgart to get an overview of the organization of the health system in Baden-Württemberg. In partnership with the then President of the Baden-Württemberg State Medical Association , Franz-Josef Große-Ruyken (Freiburg), initial talks were held with the aim of establishing a medical association in the Free State of Saxony in the shortest possible time.

On February 24, 1990, representatives of the medical associations from the area of ​​the former state of Saxony decided to found the Saxon State Medical Association in Dresden. After intensive negotiations with the health minister of the last GDR government in Berlin, May 12, 1990 was set as the founding date of a provisional Saxon State Medical Association based in Dresden on his recommendation.

In December 1990 the chairman and, until 1998, the first president of the provisional Saxon State Medical Association, Heinz Diettrich , submitted the application to the Federal Medical Association for inclusion in the working group of the State Medical Associations of Germany. Finally, the 94th German Medical Association in Hamburg in 1991 took the final formal step towards integrating the five new chambers by amending the statutes of the German Medical Association.

On October 25, 1996, the Saxon State Medical Association moved into its current domicile on the Schützenhöhe in Dresden after only 17 months of construction. This ended the years of makeshift arrangements. The building is the administrative headquarters, meeting place and event location for doctors, cooperating bodies and associations.

From 1999 to 2015 the internist Jan Schulze , founder of the independent association of doctors and dentists in Saxony and the co-founder of the Saxon State Medical Association, was its president.

General practitioner Erik Bodendieck, who also works as a diabetologist, addiction and palliative medicine specialist, has held the office of President of the Saxon State Medical Association since June 2015.

organization

All doctors who are authorized to practice their profession on the basis of a professional license or license to practice medicine who mainly work in the Free State of Saxony or, if they do not practice their profession, have their main residence there, are compulsory members of the Saxon State Medical Association. The Saxon State Medical Association is a public corporation . In accordance with the principle of subsidiarity , it performs legitimate public tasks which society has an increased interest in fulfilling, but which cannot be effectively carried out solely through private initiative, nor are they part of the state tasks in the narrower sense that the state itself performs through its authorities got to.

The organs of the Saxon State Medical Association are the Chamber Assembly and the Board of Directors. The work of the members in the organs and committees of the Saxon State Medical Association is voluntary. The chamber assembly of the Saxon State Medical Association consists of 101 elected members. The chamber assembly also includes a member of the teaching staff from the medical faculties of the universities of Leipzig and Dresden.

The Chamber Assembly decides on the fundamental matters of the Saxon State Medical Association. Above all, it adopts the main statutes and other statutes. The Chamber Assembly usually meets twice a year in Dresden. In accordance with the main statutes, it elects delegates to the German Medical Association, the general assembly of the German Medical Association. Those entitled to vote elect the members of the Chamber Assembly by postal vote for a period of four years. The term of office ends when the new chamber assembly meets. The Chamber Assembly elects the President, the Vice-President and the Secretary from among its members. The election of the other board members takes place in one ballot. The honorary board of directors of the Saxon State Medical Association consists of eleven members including the president and a vice-president. The Chamber Assembly has set up committees to prepare for its meetings and to advise the Board of Directors. In addition, the board of directors of the Saxon State Medical Association appoints various (temporary) working groups for special issues or tasks.

The board of directors usually meets once a month for a board meeting and advises on all existing professional policy, professional law, administrative and financial matters.

District Medical Associations

The district medical associations were formed in all political circles and independent cities in Saxony as non-independent subdivisions of the Saxon State Medical Association. They are under the supervision of the State Medical Association. The district medical associations are assigned tasks within their local area within the framework of the Saxon Medical Professions Act. This includes the perception of the professional interests of all members, the monitoring of the fulfillment of professional law and ethical obligations, the support of further and advanced training as well as the mediation in disputes among the members and with third parties. To finance their tasks, the district medical associations receive payments from the Saxon State Medical Association. These payments are financed from the premium income.

tasks

The tasks of the Saxon State Medical Association are:

  • in the sense of the respective professional mandate, taking into account the common good, to perceive and represent the professional interests of all members and to ensure a high reputation of the profession;
  • to control the fulfillment of the professional legal and professional ethical obligations of its members;
  • to ensure the quality of professional practice and to ensure that the relationship between the members is beneficial;
  • to mediate professional disputes among members and disputes between members and third parties relating to the exercise of the profession.
  • The Saxon State Medical Association is also responsible for all matters relating to further training law for chamber members. So she issued z. B. Further training authorizations upon request. All examinations for the recognition of specialist, specialist and additional designations are carried out by the Saxon State Medical Association.
  • The Saxon Academy for Medical Further and Further Education conducts medical further and further education events, certifies further education events and issues further education certificates for its chamber members.
  • As part of vocational training, the Saxon State Medical Association is responsible for training medical assistants and taking the exams.
  • With the monthly “Ärzteblatt Sachsen” and the health and professional policy contributions contained therein, it also informs its members about current developments, official announcements and notifications from the office.
  • The Saxon State Medical Association oversees the network “Doctors for Saxony” with currently around 135 partners, which aims to attract young doctors to work in Saxony. It maintains a coordination office for its work.

In April 1991 the delegates of the 1st Saxon Doctors' Conference made the formal resolution to found a pension fund. In doing so, the Saxon medical and veterinary profession took advantage of the legal option, which is only available to the collective liberal professions, of comprehensive self-determination, largely independent of state intervention, also in the field of social security. In accordance with the provisions of the Medical Professions Act and the Articles of Association, the pension fund has the task of providing its members with benefits when they reach the age limit and when they become unable to work, and to provide security for their surviving dependents in the event of the member's death.

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