Objectives
EMA’s objectives all focus on the improvement of the medical profession in the European context.
- Act to influence Health policies according to practicing doctors’ priorities
- To form a forum of doctors working in the European Union’s medical community
- To provide its members with information and services that facilitate their professional activity
- To contribute to the improvement of healthcare given to patients by helping its members keep abreast of the latest developments
- To influence the development of healthcare in Europe by defending its members’ opinions and rights
These objectives are ambitious, yet realistic.
RECENT ACTIVITIES
Some of the recent activities are detailed among the Projects page. Among the position statements and official contributions at European Commission level, we recall:
- The WORKSHOP: HEALTH AND VACCINE STRATEGY. Endorsement and full support to “Vaccine Passports” Read here and recommendations to the Commission: Read here also here
- A position statement on “The unmet needs of novel skills profile and training of the health care workers in Europe” Read here
- Recommendation on the Initiative “Online and distance learning in primary and secondary education” Read here
- The EMA position paper on european Health Emergency preparedness and Response Authority (HERA)
ONGOING ACTIVITIES
The current profile of EMA’s activities is open to any contribution of Members and non-Members of EMA. It is coordinated by the Executive Vice President for Medical Research and International relations. The aim is to focus on global scale strategic topics for medicine, which are somewhat neglected or poorly promoted and developed. We strive to promote international working groups of experts, identify barriers and opportunities and suggest possible trajectories of implementation drafting a final document to be published also in a peer-reviewed medical Journal and thereafter linked by the EMA’s web page.
Ongoing Activities with already operating working groups:
- Environment and Health. Coordinator Prisco Piscitelli, MD
- PREHABILITATION BEFORE SURGERY: A COMPREHENSIVE PARADIGM SHIFT. How to Optimize Pre-Operative Risk Profile and Enhance Perioperative Recovery. Coordinator Nidal Tourkmani, MD
- Surgical approaches for mitigating the worldwide burden of gastroesophageal reflux disease: a model of new strategies of intervention in public health issues. Coordinator Luigi Bonavina, MD
Call to propose new topics and participation in existing or new working groups: please, address to Vincenzo Costigliola, MD, EMA’s President or to Guglielmo Trovato, MD, Executive VicePresident
Awards
The Bial Foundation is a Scientific Partner of the European Medical Association.
Two EMA Board representatives are Members of the nomination Jury of BIAL Award in Biomedicine 2025
Proof of your qualifications
To work as a doctor in another EU country, you must apply to the authority that oversees the doctor profession in that country, providing proof of your qualifications. The authority must:
- Acknowledge your application within 1 month of receiving it, and ask you missing but necessary documents to process the application
- Assess your qualifications and decide whether to grant your application within 3 months (or 4 months for certain complicated cases in the area of non automatic recognition)
