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German Respiratory Society
AbbreviationDGP
Formation17 October 1910
Legal statusnon-profit society
PurposeProfessional and scientific organization for Respiratory medical professionals (doctors and nurses) in Germany
Membership
3,166 members (30 August 2013)
President
Tobias Welte
WebsiteDeutsche Gesellschaft für Pneumologie und Beatmungsmedizinyoung pneumology professionals

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pneumologie und Beatmungsmedizin (DGP, "German Respiratory Society") is the largest and oldest medical professional organization for respiratory disorders in the German-speaking world and serves as a forum for all medical practitioners and scientists in the field of respiratory medicine. Almost 28% of the more than 3,000 members are women. Pneumologie has been the official journal of the German Respiratory Society since 1981.

Mission

The DGP seeks "to promote the study, research and teaching, training and continuing education, prevention, care and rehabilitation in the field of respiratory medicine, including

guidelines and statements and promoting young doctors and researchers as well as allied health professionals. Besides improving standards of medical education at the university level as well as of specialist postgraduate training, the society focuses on improving the standard of information and preventative measures in respect of all aspects of respiratory health
.

Annual congress

The annual congress of the DGP is its key event and is organized by a congress president elected for this purpose and a programme commission, who plan the congress in conjunction with the scientific sections of the DGP. In recent years, more than 3,000 people have attended the annual DGP congresses (record figure: 3,500 in 2011). Since 2009 e-posters and other presentations have been available online.[3] Apart from presentations on specialized topics and the educational postgraduate programme, the supplementary programme includes the so-called Lung Run.

Awards

The award ceremonies of two of the DGP’s partner institutions take place during the annual congress. The Deutsche Lungenstiftung e.V. ("German Lung Foundation") awards prizes for a doctoral thesis and for secondary-school creativity as well as the Wilhelm and Ingeborg Roloff Prize for media reporting on respiratory health. The Deutsche Atemwegsliga e.V. ("German Airway League") awards a

scientific research and one for clinical research
, each worth €10,000, which are also awarded at the annual congress.

Cooperations

In compliance with the educational and

lobby politicians and parties for e.g. the protection of non-smokers. The DGP maintains close relations with international organizations such as the European Respiratory Society (ERS), the Union Européenne des Médicins Spécialistes (UEMS), the American Lung Association, the American Thoracic Society, the American College of Chest Physicians, the British Thoracic Society and the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases
. The DGP participates as an organization in projects of these bodies, and individual DGP members have fulfilled and continue to fulfil important functions, for instance the publication of the European Lung White Book of the ERS (2nd edition 2013) or the ERS HERMES programme (Harmonized Education in Respiratory Medicine for European Specialists).

Improving education and training

Since its foundation, the DGP has focused on the development of pneumology as an independent medical speciality, including teaching medical students as well as specialist training and post-graduate education and training, as well as on the establishment of more autonomous respiratory medicine departments in university hospitals. To facilitate the start of young physicians interested in respiratory medicine, the DGP has established a forum, the working group for promoting junior doctors and researchers, as well as a training academy, the Respiratory Medicine Training Academy, that organizes its own educational and scientific programme and runs a dedicated website for young pneumology professionals.[7] To ensure that Germany does not fall behind international developments in the specialty, the DGP proactively encourages greater emphasis on teaching of respiratory medicine to medical students and the creation of separate university professorships in pneumology.[8]

History

Early years: 1910–1933

The first German tuberculosis sanatorium, founded by Dr Hermann Brehmer in Görbersdorf (today Poland), about 1870
Postcard of Heidehaus, Otto Ziegler’s sanatorium, about 1907

The roots of the DGP go back to the Vereinigung der Lungenheilanstaltsärzte ("Association of Tuberculosis

Internal Medicine (DGIM), the discovery of the bacillus that caused tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) by Robert Koch in 1882, the popularization of the sanatorium movement in Germany by Peter Dettweiler from 1892 onwards and the foundation of the predecessor of the DZK (1895) were milestones in the fight against the disease. The key principle was not so much the promotion of specialized research activities as an interdisciplinary approach to "gather together the knowledge of tuberculosis scattered and hidden in all the different disciplines".[9]
The official celebration of the founding of the DTG took place in
Danzig in 1925 on the occasion of a joint meeting of the coalition of the tuberculosis sanatorium physicians and the tuberculosis public health
specialists under the chairmanship of Otto Ziegler (1879–1931), medical director of the Heidehaus Sanatorium. The DPG explicitly made a point of working not only with physicians, but also with "representatives of the
surgeons such as Ferdinand Sauerbruch
. Initially, activities focused on DTG meetings, the detailed minutes ("proceedings") of which appeared in Beiträge zur Klinik der Tuberkulose ("Contributions to the Clinic for Tuberculosis") published by Ludolph Brauer.

Nazi era: 1933–1945

As managing director from 1925 to 1945, Julius E. Kayser-Petersen (1886–1954) not only played a central role in the DTG, but as secretary-general of the Reichs-Tuberkulose-Ausschuss ("National Committee on Tuberculosis") and other key positions influenced the tuberculosis policy of the Nazi regime. Under Kayser-Petersen's leadership, membership of the DTG rose rapidly from 379 in 1925 to more than 1,000 in 1941. The DTG's main activity was organizing the congresses, at least up to 1941, when they were suspended due to the war. Conference topics in this period included the inheritability of tuberculosis (TB), tuberculosis sufferers' "suitability for work and marriage" and the possibility of giving them a special status ("compulsory detention").

The dangers of

ban on smoking
in all tuberculosis sanatoria and clinics in 1939.

During the Nazi era, TB was no longer seen as a disease of the poor; it was suddenly considered a sign of a person's "

concentration camps. Doctors (among them GRS members) took part.[12]

In 2018, the GRS published a book about the role of the GRS during the Nazi era. They also published an abridged version in English.[13]

Postwar period: since 1947

Mass screening of apprentices in a steelwork in Mannheim, 1939

The DTG was dissolved in 1945, and congresses resumed only in 1947 after the Society was re-established under the chairmanship of Franz Ickert (1883–1954). Renewed rampant tuberculosis dominated the work of the DTG in the

antibiotics.[14] As tuberculosis rates fell in both German states in the 1950s, sanatoria were gradually replaced by special chest hospitals that focused on diseases such as lung cancer, asthma, chronic bronchitis and emphysema (COPD), interstitial lung disease
and general environmental and occupational lung diseases. This evolution in developments is reflected in changes in the names of the two scientific respiratory societies in East and West Germany. Initially, the names contained only the term tuberculosis; lung disease was added in the early 1960s, and finally the terms "
respiratory diseases
and tuberculosis" (1980 West) and "bronchopulmonary diseases and tuberculosis" (1976 East), respectively.

Scientific respiratory societies in the GDR and the FRG

With the founding of the Wissenschaftliche Tuberkulose-Gesellschaft in der Deutsche Demokratische Republik ("Scientific Tuberculosis Society in the German Democratic Republic") in 1957, the DTG split into an East German and a West German organization, which were reunited in 1991.[15] Although external factors such as standards of health care and opportunities for professional exchanges dictated different development paths, there were also parallels, e.g. the wider focus on other lung diseases (pneumonia and pulmonary hypertension) and new techniques in pulmonary function diagnostics and endoscopy, improvements in graduate training for specialists (basic training in internal medicine, followed by training in respiratory medicine) and the introduction of specialist working groups and the development of guidelines and recommendations.[16]

Changes after 1990

The DGP integrated medical advances in pulmonary function diagnostics,

anti-smoking PR campaigns of the Deutsche Lungenstiftung ("German Lung Foundation"), e.g. Be Smart Don’t Start. The increase in the number of congress participants (see Annual congress above) and members testifies to the positive impact of these changes: In the past 20 years membership has almost tripled (1992: 1,117; 2002: 2,063; 2012: 3,093).[18]

Organization

The work of the honorary members of the board of directors and the full-time management has the support of a scientific advisory committee made up of representatives of the leading respiratory organizations in Germany and the scientific sections. The work of the 15 scientific sections and 9 working groups that focus on different aspects of respiratory medicine and on professional relationships is crucial for the DPG. In particular the scientific sections reflect the cross-links between respiratory medicine and other medical specialties, highlight key issues within the DGP and serve as forums for scientific exchange, joint research projects and initiatives on DGP policy. The sections, each of which is, as a rule, headed by two spokespersons, offer their members regular postgraduate educational programmes and draw up the guidelines approved and published by the DGP. The following sections have been established since 1994:

  1. Allergology and Immunology
  2. Endoscopy
  3. Occupational medicine, epidemiology, environmental and social medicine
  4. Infectiology
    and tuberculosis
  5. Intensive care medicine/ventilatory support
  6. Cardiorespiratory interaction
  7. Clinical respiratory medicine
  8. Sleep medicine
  9. Paediatric
    respiratory medicine
  10. Pathophysiology and aerosol medicine
  11. Respiratory oncology
  12. Prevention and
    rehabilitation
  13. Thoracic surgery
  14. Cell biology
  15. Allied health professionals

Working group priorities are: 1. graduate and postgraduate training and education in respiratory medicine, 2. the role of

telemedicine
in respiratory medicine.

Publications and recommendations

Since 1980 the DGP, often in cooperation with other organizations (DAL, DZK), has drawn up more than 100 guidelines and recommendations, which are coordinated by a guidelines group formed especially for this purpose. Examples of cooperative projects include the so-called 2009 CAP guideline[19] and the 2010 guideline "Prävention, Diagnostik, Therapie und Nachsorge des Lungenkarzinoms" ("Prevention, diagnosis, therapy and follow-up of lung cancer").[20] The "Leitlinie zur Diagnostik und Therapie der idiopathischen Lungenfibrose" ("Guideline for diagnosis and management of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis") has also appeared in 2013.[21] In addition to position papers and statements on current specific lung-related topics, the DGP publishes recommendations on e.g. "Infektionsprävention bei Tuberkulose" ("Tuberculosis infection control", 2012)[22] and "Belastungsuntersuchungen in der Pneumologie" ("Exercise testing in respiratory medicine", 2013).[23] The DGP was also involved in the publication of the German "Lung White Book" in 1996; the fourth edition will appear in autumn 2013.

See also

References

  1. ^ Statutes of the German Respiratory Society Archived 2013-08-30 at archive.today, as of 19 March 2010 (retrieved 26 August 2013).
  2. ^ Statutes of the German Respiratory Society Archived 2013-08-30 at archive.today, as of 19 March 2010 (retrieved 26 August 2013).
  3. ^ Publikationen Archived 2013-07-01 at archive.today (retrieved 26 August 2013).
  4. ^ Preise Archived 2013-08-06 at the Wayback Machine (retrieved 26. August 2013).
  5. ^ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pneumologie und Beatmungsmedizin (ed.): 100 Jahre DGP – 100 Jahre deutsche Pneumologie. Springer, Heidelberg 2010, pp. 150–157.
  6. ISSN 0934-8387
    , pp. 464–469.
  7. ^ Das Portal für werdende Pneumologen Archived 2013-09-11 at the Wayback Machine (retrieved 26 August 2013).
  8. ISSN 0934-8387
    , p. 534.
  9. ^ Julius-E. Kayser-Petersen: Vorwort. In: Verhandlungen der Deutschen Tuberkulose-Gesellschaft. Bericht über die 1. Tagung am 28. und 29. Mai 1926, p. 198.
  10. ^ O. Ziegler: Eröffnungsrede. In: Verhandlungen der Deutschen Tuberkulose-Gesellschaft. Bericht über die 1. Tagung am 28. und 29. Mai 1926, p. 217.
  11. ISBN 978-3-642-11453-3
    , p. 21.
  12. ^ Pulmonary Medicine during National Socialism, page 26-53 (PDF)
  13. ^ Pulmonary Medicine during National Socialism (PDF, 37 p)
  14. ISBN 3-89119-368-8
    , pp. 32ff.
  15. ISBN 978-3-642-11453-3
    , pp. 49–85.
  16. ISSN 0934-8387
    , pp. 9f.
  17. ISBN 978-3-642-11453-3
    , pp. 67f.
  18. ISSN 0934-8387
    , p. 399.
  19. ISSN 0934-8387
    , pp. 1–68.
  20. ISSN 0934-8387
    , pp. 1–164.
  21. ISSN 0934-8387
    , pp. 81–111.
  22. ISSN 0934-8387
    , pp. 269–282.
  23. ISSN 0934-8387
    , pp. 16–34.

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