Archived: WMA Resolution on Medical Group Practice
Adopted by the 40th World Medical Assembly Vienna, Austria, September 1988
and rescinded at the WMA General Assembly, Santiago 2005
- WHEREAS medical care is organized throughout the world in many different ways, from absolute freedom to practice medicine to medical services organized exclusively and completely by the State and
- WHEREAS examination of the economic and social contexts within which these health care systems exist reveals a diversity of medical need and community objectives, and
- WHEREAS a pluralism of structure for the provision of medical care is needed to fulfill those needs and objectives,
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, hat the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø supports the concept of medical group practice as one method for providing continuous quality medical care within the context of medical ethics.