General Practice Foundation
The General Medicine Foundation - the primary health care foundation is a German civil and non-profit foundation based in Jena . It operates internationally and promotes scientific interests, basic, advanced and advanced training for general practitioners as well as research and practice in primary care. The foundation was established in 2013 by general practitioner and director of the institute for general medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Jochen Gensichen .
Foundation purposes
- Strengthening the general public's perception of the family doctor's job
- Promotion of primary health care
- Promotion of education, science, research, practice, innovation and charity with a view to qualifying the general practitioner profession
- Optimization of diagnosis, treatment and prevention concepts and patient care by funding scientific pilot projects in the field of general medicine
- Management programs in general medicine for specialists in further training
Fields of activity
Organization and promotion of events for the advanced and advanced training of general practitioners, scholarships for students, promotion of doctorates and research projects. Publication of a series of films by general practitioners for general practitioners and patients. Every year the foundation organizes a symposium on medical ethics for doctors and patients together with the Melanchthon Academy in Cologne and is the publisher of the “General Practice Foundation” series on topics of medical ethics.
The foundation organizes the annual Hufeland Lecture and awards the speakers with a foundation prize. Previous winners:
- Michael M. Cooking (2014)
- Gerd Gigerenzer (2015)
- Paul Glasziou ( Bond University Australia, 2016)
- Henriette Herwig ( Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf , 2017)
- Frede Olesen ( University of Aarhus , 2018) and Micha Brumlik (2019)
Foundation bodies
Board of Directors: Jochen Gensichen (founder and founding director)
Board of Trustees
- Annette Becker, Department of General Medicine, Preventive and Rehabilitative Medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg
- Marianne Koch , internist, book author and former film actress, Tutzing
- Manfred Kock , former president and former council chairman of the Evangelical Church in Germany
- Andreas Linde, Senior Consultant in Charge , Psychiatric Services Aargau (PDAG)
- Peter Meinecke, lawyer and entrepreneur, Freiburg im Breisgau
- Sylvia Sänger, health scientist, SRH University of Health Gera
financing
The foundation is financed with income and donations generated from the foundation's assets.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael M. Cooking: The Alliance Question
- ↑ Gerd Gigerenzer, Felix G Rebitschek: The century of the patient: for dealing with risks and opportunities
- ↑ Paul Glasziou: Face the fact: We doctors do too much
- ↑ Henriette Herwig: The family doctor as an impotent savior in Franz Kafka's story "Ein Landarzt"
- ^ Frede Olesen: The doctor as medicine
- ↑ Micha Brumlik: Medical action as ethical practice