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Born in 1990 according to law 25/10/1919, seated in Bruxelles, the European Medical Association unites doctors of the member Countries to develop their professionality within the Union. Specifically, among its aims for members there are: joining an European network of doctors; adding an European dimension to their professional and social life; influencing the development of European Health Care.
EMA, indeed, sees itself as a service organization that does not interfere with other existing medical associations or professional protection bodies; among its statutory aims there are those of improving medical information, advancing transparency and comparison, encouraging collaboration and mobility.
To do this, EMA aims at very concrete targets: improvement of the medical profession in a European context; acting in order to influence Health policies; providing its members with informations and services to facilitate their professional activity; improving of health care given to their patients by keeping members abreast of latest developments in their specifical branches.
Practically, the Association tends to harmonizing therapeutic protocols, criteria for evaluating the quality of medical care, medical records, laboratory tests drug control studies, clinical trials. It offers practicing doctors services as creation of a professional identity card for Europe, evaluation of existing medical computer networks and development of a computerized network for European doctors, centralization and distribution of information on legal and ethical aspects in Europe, creation of a European virtual medical library, the construction of a database listing specialized medical centers in Europe,
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publication of information on European medical congresses.
Not only: the Association is keen on offering a series of services to patients too, such as an European Health card, an European medical information card (emergency numbers, medical centers, medical care advice, publication of a guide on medical practice in each Member State of the Union. EMA has moreover created specific databases supporting its action: practicing doctors listed according to their specialty; specialized medic centers; medical associations; medical journals; commonly used medical abbreviation and terminology.
Currently the Association is also engaged on particular projects, such as <<EACH>> directed to Alzheimer disease, or <<Neuropole>>, intended for mental health, <<Mednet>>, a post-graduated training program connected with the Socrates and Erasmus European Union projects,
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<<Geda>>, aimed to eating disorders, particularly anorexia and bulimia. Among the most recent there are then <<Echop>>, directed to purchase departments in hospitals, the enquiry <<Generiques>>, made among the doctors of the Union about their reaction to generic drugs, or the distribution, with the cooperation of pharmaceutical companies, of a <<Specialist diary>>. EMA has also undertaken courses for doctors-translators and Medical English courses. And, obviously, has also created of website of its own.
Finally, an abstract of the statute, published on the official bulletin of Belgian Kingdom on 9/17/1990:
Art: 3: “The purpose of European Medical Association is to study medical resources from both the scientific and socio-cultural standpoints […]. In pursuing its aims the Association will not be influenced by political, linguistic, philosophical ethnic or pecuniary considerations”.
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