International Association of Therapists & Medical Doctors

An excellent program by the World Health Organization

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Frontline physicians must be stress resilient.

Physicians need a robust level of mental resilience. This means maintaining or rapidly restoring mental health during or after stressful events. Thus, resilience does not mean always being free of mental stress or psychological symptoms, but being able to either maintain mental health in response to stress and adverse life circumstances or to return to a mentally healthy state after a relatively short period of mental stress. To keep on eye on this issue is something we expect from our members. We are exceptionally strict in this regard and exclude members who have been proven to be mentally unstable. That may seem harsh, but one would also not let a pilot into a cockpit who has no control over himself and his impulses. Being a doctor is not a normal profession. Of course, we first offer that such a member voluntarily seeks treatment. However, if this does not happen, we will draw the necessary consequences, without regard to personal sensitivities and without compromising on the basis of a person's high profile.

We welcome members from all over the world.

We are proud that IAAT has opened up to the world and now accepts members from almost every country in the world. The entire association experiences this as a cultural blessing and a chance to compare one's own work with the standards of other countries.

We welcome members from all over the world.

We urgently need a deeper dialogue and a broad social consensus on the unconditional protection of human life from its beginning to its end. We increasingly miss an outcry from society and politics when the boundaries between what is technically or medically doable and what is ethically justifiable are crossed.

Control is better.

In an increasingly uncertain world, we all need islands of trust. Being one is what we demand of ourselves. Never before has there been such a high number of migrant workers, even among academics. Doctors in particular often find it difficult to gain the acceptance they deserve from patients in a foreign culture. That's why everyone, from executives to patients, can query our manual database (click here) to find out whether a particular physician is a member of IAAT, what kind of education he or she has, and whether he or she is in good standing. Depending on the country, certain data may be subject to data protection, but the essential information is available to everyone.

Also soft aspects of medicine are therapeutic.

Everyone knows it, but hardly anyone practices it in the hectic daily routine of a clinic: devotion and empathy. The placebo effect has long been proven to be effective, and the same applies to loving attention. That's why it's called healthCARE. We expect our members to bring this aspect of medicine to life. This doesn't always work in this challenging profession, but more often than one might think.

Please get vaccinated against Sars-CoV-2

Covid-19 vaccines protect against severe disease and most vaccines used worldwide reduce the risk of infection. However, studies indicate that vaccine protection can diminish over time. In the elderly, it is also the case that the overall immune response is lower after a vaccination. Here, a booster vaccination can significantly increase the protection again. The body produces more antibodies and can thus protect itself even better against the virus. Booster vaccination acts like a strengthener for the immune system - that is why it is also called booster.

We require at least two continuing education courses per year.

Continuous on-the-job training to update and expand medical knowledge and practical skills and to consolidate and further develop professional expertise are part of a doctor's self-conception and professional duties. The goal of continuing education is to improve the quality of treatment on an ongoing basis and thus to ensure a high level of safety in the provision of care for patients. Regular continuing education therefore contributes to quality management. Continuing education can only be successful if, on the one hand, it addresses knowledge gaps and, on the other hand, satisfies the subjective, individually perceived need for continuing education. Self-determined lifelong learning should also maintain and promote professional motivation.

Because your health is your most valuable asset.