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Austrian Medical Associations, established by law in 1891 as the 
professional representative bodies for physicians. As a result of the 
Aerztegesetz (Law on Physicians) of 1989 there are Medical 
Associations in the federal provinces as well as the Austrian Medical 
Association in Vienna, whose General Assembly consists of the 
Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the Provincial Medical Associations 
and ombudsmen for self-employed and non-self-employed physicians, 
dentists belonging to all the Provincial Medical Associations, Federal 
ombudsmen and their representatives. The medical associations have the 
mandate to represent and promote the common professional, social and 
economic interests of the physicians as well as to ensure the 
integrity of the profession´s reputation and adherence to a 
common professional ethos. Their expenses are covered by membership 
fees; the Associations are supervised by the Federal Ministry of  
Social Affairs.

!Further reading
G. Aigner (ed.), Das Aerztegesetz 1998, 1999.


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