Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany

The Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany ( AWMF ), founded on November 10, 1962 in Frankfurt am Main, since 2007, registered association ( eV ), the German umbrella organization of 168 scientific societies (November 2013) from all areas of Medicine ( together approximately 180,000 members). Since 1995, coordinates the AWMF the development of clinical guidelines for diagnosis and treatment by individual Scientific Medical Societies. The AWMF is a non profit ( Promotion of Science ).

Tasks and objectives

The AWMF advises on policy and interdisciplinary matters and tasks, develops recommendations and resolutions and advocacy with the so -related institutions, especially in the political arena. In addition to the - given the increasing specialization increasingly urgent - tasks of internal cooperation plan is to align the interests of medical science increasingly outward advantage.

Some examples are:

  • Medical guidelines for diagnosis and therapy
  • Training, further education and training in medicine
  • Interdisciplinary cooperation of the subjects
  • Classification systems in medicine (eg ICD, OPS)
  • Supply of scientific literature ( libraries, scientific journals), for example, by issuing a " open-access" journals German Medical Science (GMS )

The AWMF with their independent tasks in addition to the other working groups such as the German Medical Association ( GMA ), Medical Faculty Association (MFT ), Association of University Hospitals of Germany ( VUD ), Community specialist medical professional associations ( GFB ) and the institutions of the Promotion of Science (eg DFG) a important pillar within the entire medical organization. The AWMF strives to fruitful cooperation with other bodies and the relevant political bodies in the interest of the beneficial interaction and an efficient and future- oriented development of medical sciences and their implementation in medical practice.

Together with the German Cancer Aid is the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany and the German Cancer Society guidelines on gastric cancer patients, the different forms of breast cancer and of prostate cancer in generally understandable brochures. It is available free of charge, founded by the doctor Mildred Scheel organization in Bonn.

Organization

The AWMF has since its founding in 1962, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main. She was initially a non- registered association; since 2007 has the AWMF the legal form of a registered association ( association Registration No. 13755 in the District Court Frankfurt am Main). Organs of the association are the delegates' conference (Parliament) and the Bureau. This includes (as of May 2012):

  • President Karl Heinz Rahn,
  • Past- President, Albrecht Encke,
  • Deputy President Wolfgang Gaebel and Wilfried Wagner,
  • Treasurer Hans- Konrad Selbmann
  • Other members Christoph Herrmann -Lingen, Rolf Kreienberg, Hans- Detlev Saeger, Claudia Spies, Rolf -Detlef Treede, Albrecht Wienke

The AWMF also operates a branch in Dusseldorf and an office in Berlin. Managing Director and Head of the office is Wolfgang Müller MA ( Dusseldorf ).

2009 has set up its own " AWMF Institute for management of medical knowledge ( AWMF IMWI ) " the AWMF that (Lahn ) is based at the Faculty of Medicine of the Philipps University in Marburg. Director of the Institute is Ina B. Kopp.

Working groups

The AWMF are the working groups

  • Doctors and lawyers,
  • Hospital and practice hygiene

Connected.

President of the AWMF

Members

The following scientific medical societies are members of the AWMF (November 2013):

  • AG " Chemistry in medical education " of the German Chemical Society ( German Chemical Society ), Associate Member,
  • German Society for Biomedical Engineering (DGBMT ) in the VDE, Associate Member,
  • German Interdisciplinary Association for Pain Therapy ( DIVS ), Associate Member

Medal of Honor AWMF

On the 50th anniversary of the AWMF whose Bureau for the first time a " Medal of Honor AWMF " (designed by Wolfgang Müller MA) has decided to award to individuals who have rendered outstanding services to the needs of scientific medicine. The medal was

  • 2012: Dr. Rainer Hess
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