Association President Michael Reusch counts the increase in age-related skin diseases and the introduction of young doctors to the field of dermatology as one of the greatest challenges in the future.
Der President of the German Dermatological Society (DDG), Prof. Dr. med. Rudolf Stadler, certified the professional association of German dermatologists (BVDD) at ceremony in Berlin in early November that it was historic reconstruction achievement: “It was our fathers' great merit to bring dermatology back into the global community on the scientific side after the war, and also the nationwide community Ensure supply in the post-war period. We were able to keep the organ subject dermatology despite many attacks. ”
For this, Stadler is convinced that dermatologists are still international like before admired. At the same time as medical progress, innumerable health reforms have been passed in Germany, which have created high level of pressure to cooperate between the two dermatological societies and ultimately led to close cooperation. This is exemplary for other medical professional associations, praised Stadler: DDG and BVDD are the sponsors of the Center for Health Services Research in Dermatology and Venereology and the German Dermatological Academy, located at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.
BVDD President Dr. med. Michael Reusch assessed the founding of the joint academy in 1999 as very early initiative to structure advanced training, long before the introduction of “compulsory training”. Quality circles, among other things, are initiated and supervised across the board. Both associations are also working together on guidelines. In addition, it was possible to “adjust to changes in health policy relatively quickly”. The BVDD president counts skin cancer screening to be one of the successes, which was established largely on the initiative of dermatologists.
However, dermatologists were warned not to stop at such initiatives. The health economist and pharmacist Prof. Dr. Gerd Glaeske from the University of Bremen insists that the skin cancer screening also be carried out by general practitioners. Studies by the Central Institute for Statutory Health Insurance in Germany, however, show that the training courses given by dermatologists lead to higher hit rates (see also DÄ, issue 41/2010).
Association President Michael Reusch counts the increase in age-related skin diseases and the introduction of young doctors to the field of dermatology as one of the greatest challenges in the future.
Der President of the German Dermatological Society (DDG), Prof. Dr. med. Rudolf Stadler, certified the professional association of German dermatologists (BVDD) at ceremony in Berlin in early November that it was historic reconstruction achievement: “It was our fathers' great merit to bring dermatology back into the global community on the scientific side after the war, and also the nationwide community Ensure supply in the post-war period. We were able to keep the organ subject dermatology despite many attacks. ”
For this, Stadler is convinced that dermatologists are still international like before admired. At the same time as medical progress, innumerable health reforms have been passed in Germany, which have created high level of pressure to cooperate between the two dermatological societies and ultimately led to close cooperation. This is exemplary for other medical professional associations, praised Stadler: DDG and BVDD are the sponsors of the Center for Health Services Research in Dermatology and Venereology and the German Dermatological Academy, located at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.
BVDD President Dr. med. Michael Reusch assessed the founding of the joint academy in 1999 as very early initiative to structure advanced training, long before the introduction of “compulsory training”. Quality circles, among other things, are initiated and supervised across the board. Both associations are also working together on guidelines. In addition, it was possible to “adjust to changes in health policy relatively quickly”. The BVDD president counts skin cancer screening to be one of the successes, which was established largely on the initiative of dermatologists.
However, dermatologists were warned not to stop at such initiatives. The health economist and pharmacist Prof. Dr. Gerd Glaeske from the University of Bremen insists that the skin cancer screening also be carried out by general practitioners. Studies by the Central Institute for Statutory Health Insurance in Germany, however, show that the training courses given by dermatologists lead to higher hit rates (see also DÄ, issue 41/2010).Glaeske pleaded for these results to be questioned critically.
He also sees the need to analyze external influences on dermatological treatment fields. In psoriasis, for example, "dermatologists often use topical cortisone or other topical drugs, while non-specialist groups such as general practitioners and internists often resort to new strategies such as antipsoriatic biologicals". The dermatologists should weigh up "whether it (is) conceivable that other specialist groups with high level of competence use such agents".
Search for strategies
It should not be easy for dermatologists, colleagues from outside the field to put them in their place, with whom one may have to work more closely in supply than before. Because for the future, the BVDD anticipates considerable increase in the need for treatment. “We know that the number of age-related diseases, such as skin cancer and skin inflammatory diseases, is increasing. Dermatology will have lot to do there, ”said Association President Reusch to the Deutsches Ärzteblatt. He therefore ensures that there is sufficient number of young specialists. The search for strategies to attract young doctors is now classified as urgent in the association.
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