Swiss Society for General Internal Medicine

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Swiss Society for General Internal Medicine
(SGAIM)
Logo SGAIM SSMIG SSGIM.svg
purpose Medical Society for General Internal Medicine
Chair: Drahomir Aujesky (from 2019) and Regula Capaul (from 2019)
Executive Director: Lars Clarfeld
Establishment date: 2015
Seat : Bern
Website: http://www.sgaim.ch

The Swiss Society for General Internal Medicine (SGAIM) is a specialist medical society in Switzerland. It emerged from the merger of the Swiss Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM) and the Swiss Society for General Medicine (SGAM) on December 17, 2015. It is an association according to Art. 60 ff. ZGB and has around 7000 members.

aims

The SGAIM wants to work for a comprehensive, efficient and patient-oriented general internal medicine (AIM) and ensure the promotion of the next generation of specialists in this area. She sees herself as a representative towards politics and health care authorities. The guiding principle of the SGAIM is: «Medicine for the whole person». The company's goals include:

  • Establishment of a network for general internal medicine in Switzerland
  • Promotion of young talent
  • Organization of your own congresses
  • Administration of the specialist title AIM and the accreditation of the core training courses AIM
  • Promotion of science and research through collaboration with the institutes for family medicine and the medical departments of Swiss universities.
  • Financial contributions from the SGAIM foundations to specific scientific projects
  • Ensuring quality and representation in tariff structuring within the framework of SwissDRG
  • Raising the awareness of the medical profession and the general public about the topics of AIM

To this end, the SGAIM works with other organizations such as the Young Family Doctors Switzerland (JHaS), the Swiss Young Internists (SYI) or the Professional Association of Family and Paediatricians Switzerland (mfe).

history

The SGAIM emerged from the merger of the Swiss Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM; until 2008 Swiss Society for Internal Medicine) and the Swiss Society for General Medicine (SGAM). With the merger of the two specialist societies on December 17, 2015, Switzerland's largest medical specialist society was created. The merger took place on the occasion of the founding meeting on December 17, 2015 in Bern in the Yehudi Menuhin Forum. The merger should give AIM a stronger position vis-à-vis the various actors and authorities involved in health care.

Campaigns

smarter medicine

In 2014, the predecessor organization of SGAIM, SGIM, was the first specialist medical society in Switzerland to compile and publish a top 5 list of medical measures in the outpatient sector that currently have over- or incorrect care. In doing so, she started the smarter medicine campaign, which was based on the example of the Choosing Wisely initiative in the USA .

In 2016, the SGAIM presented another list with five recommendations in the inpatient area to the public. In the same year SGAIM decided together with the SAMS a sponsoring organization to set up, should be involved in the both patient and consumer organizations and trade associations of non-medical health professionals. At the same time, the association should also unite all previous Choosing Wisely initiatives in Switzerland. On June 12, 2017 the association smarter medicine - Choosing Wisely Switzerland was founded.

On April 17, 2018, the Swiss Academy for Quality in Medicine (SAQM) awarded the SGAIM the “Innovation Qualité” prize in the category of medical organizations for its efforts with the “smarter medicine” campaign.

Doctor. All others are specialists

On March 7, 2018, the SGAIM launched its “Doctor. All others are specialists »started. This campaign is primarily intended to address medical students to take up further training within the framework of the AIM.

Prices

The SGAIM and the SGAIM Foundation award the following prizes:

  • The science award of the SGAIM Foundation for the promotion of teaching and research in the field of general internal medicine (contribution: 50,000 CHF).
  • The SGAIM Prize annually honors the best original scientific work (prize money: CHF 10,000).
  • The SGAIM Teaching Award is intended to highlight the importance of high-quality teaching in student teaching and further training in general internal medicine (prize money 5,000 CHF) as part of the young talent promotion concept.
  • The Viollier Prize for the promotion of experimental or clinical research work relevant to laboratory medicine is awarded under the patronage of the SGAIM (prize money CHF 10,000).

Congresses

The SGAIM organizes the spring congress every year, which takes place in the Congress Center in Basel . During the SGAIM congress, internists and general practitioners receive three days of training in internal medicine. The general assembly of the SGAIM also takes place during the congress.

Since 2017, the SGAIM has only held one congress in autumn, which combines the two previous events, Swiss Family Docs (SFD) and Great Update (GU). It is aimed at specialists in the outpatient and inpatient field of general internal medicine.

Presidium and Board of Directors

Co-Presidium:

  • Regula Capaul (2018-2021)
  • Drahomir Aujesky (2018-2021)

Board members (2018-2021) in addition to the Co-Presidium are Christoph Knoblauch, Idris Guessous, Romeo Providoli, Donato Tronnolone and Franziska Zogg.

Former Presidents:

  • Jean-Michel Gaspoz (2015-2018)
  • François-Gérard Héritier (2015-2018)

Board members (2015–2018) in addition to the presidents were Drahomir Aujesky, Regula Capaul, Romeo Providoli, Donato Tronnolone and Franziska Zogg.

Organ of publication

The official organ of the specialist society SGAIM is the journal “Primary and Hospital Care”. The printed version of the magazine “Primary and Hospital Care” appears 23 times a year.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Primary and Hospital Care . 8100th edition. No. 1 . EMH Schweizerischer Ärzteverlag AG, 2016, ISSN  2297-7155 , p. 5–8 ( primary-hospital-care.ch [PDF]).
  2. ↑ Swiss Society for General Internal Medicine: Statutes. April 26, 2018. Retrieved August 20, 2018 .
  3. ↑ German Society for Geriatrics: Professor Cornel Sieber in an interview before the DGIM congress: “It takes internists with geriatric training”. April 11, 2018. Retrieved August 20, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Swiss Society for General Internal Medicine: About us. Retrieved August 20, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Young family doctors Switzerland: Support us. Retrieved August 20, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Swiss Young Internists: Our partner organizations. Retrieved August 20, 2018 .
  7. ^ Family doctors and paediatricians in Switzerland: partner organizations national. Retrieved August 20, 2018 .
  8. ^ Largest medical society in Switzerland: founding meeting of the Swiss Society for General Internal Medicine (SGAIM) on December 17, 2015 in Bern. In: Presseportal.ch. news aktuell (Schweiz) AG, December 17, 2018, accessed on August 20, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Felix Straumann: Doctors advise against these treatments. In: Tages-Anzeiger. Tamedia AG, May 25, 2016, accessed on August 20, 2018 .
  10. ↑ More thrust for smarter medicine. In: Medinside. Winsider AG, July 12, 2017, accessed on August 20, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Innovation Qualité - award-winning quality projects 2018. In: fmh.ch. Association of Swiss Doctors, accessed on August 20, 2018 (German, French).
  12. ↑ Without measures, thousands of general practitioners will soon be missing. In: srf.ch. Swiss Radio and Television, April 11, 2018, accessed on August 20, 2018 .
  13. ↑ tender for the SGIM FOUNDATION. In: sgaim.ch. Swiss Society for General Internal Medicine, accessed on August 20, 2018 (German, French).
  14. ↑ SGAIM price. In: sgaim.ch. Swiss Society for General Internal Medicine, accessed on August 20, 2018 (German, French).
  15. ↑ SGAIM Teaching Award. In: sgaim.ch. Swiss Society for General and Internal Medicine, accessed on August 20, 2018 (German, French).
  16. ↑ Viollier Prize. In: viollier.ch. Viollier AG, accessed on August 20, 2018 (German, French, Italian, English).
  17. ↑ Spring Congress of SGAIM. In: sgaim.ch. Swiss Society for General Internal Medicine, accessed on August 20, 2018 (German, French).
  18. ↑ autumn congress of SGAIM. In: sgaim.ch. Swiss Society for General Internal Medicine, accessed on August 20, 2018 (German, French).
  19. ↑ New Co-Presidium. In: sgaim.ch. Swiss Society for General Internal Medicine, accessed on December 16, 2018 (German, French).
  20. ↑ About us. In: primary-hospital-care.ch. EMH Schweizerischer Ärzteverlag AG, accessed on August 20, 2018 (German, French).