The State Medical
Chamber of Baden-Württemberg is a public corporation responsible for the
medical self management. Its work is based on the "Chamber Law for Health
Care professions".
Structure:
Every physician within
the federal state of Baden-Württemberg is member of the State Medical Chamber.
At present the State Medical Chamber has a total number of 51 200
members, out of which 17 700 work in outpatient and 18 900 in clinical care.
2 600
members are working outside these fields. About 12 000 members are
without an active medical occupation.
Stuttgart, capital of
Baden-Württemberg, is the seat of the State Medical Chamber. There are four
branches in the states counties.
The chamber assembly is
the parliament of the State Medical Chamber. The executive committee,
consisting of eleven physicians
chaired by the president, Dr. med. Ulrike Wahl, and the management board
together are responsible for the overall administrational work.
Expert groups deal with
specialized questions. Further working groups and commissions care for
different aspects within the medical profession.
Our tasks:
- Promoting health
prophylaxis of the population and cooperating with other health care
professions.
- Representing the
professional interests of physicians as well as consulting politics and
administration
- supervising
fulfillment of physician's professional duties
- promoting that
physicians are on good terms with each other
- taking care that the
professional code of conduct is maintained
- promoting medical
education and continuous education
- ruling medical
continuous education and promoting this through information and consultation
- developing and
carrying out means for securing quality in medical treatmentorganizing the
education of medical assistants.
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