Symposium: Anaesthesia in the European Economic Community: Medical Directives

Scope of the European Medical Device Directives.

Can a product that incorporates nonviable human tissue be regulated as a medical device in Europe? Is a product that includes viable tissues or cells of animal origin regulated as a medical device? Is a product that incorporates a human blood derivative regulated as a medical device? This article discusses the scope of the medical device Directives and the regulatory status of products that are...

Medical training in the European Community.

The free movement of doctors within the European Community demands harmonization of standards of medical practice and carries major implications of an undergraduate and postgraduate educational kind. These have begun to be addressed by the first three Medical Directives and also by a series of reports produced by the Advisory Committee on Medical Training to the European Community. This Committ...

Medical ethics in the European Community.

Increasing European co-operation must take place in many areas, including medical ethics. Against the background of common cultural norms and pluralistic variation within political traditions, religion and lifestyles, Europe will have to converge towards unity within the field of medical ethics. This article examines how such convergence might develop with respect to four major areas: European ...

Steel and the European Economic Community

The ASEAN economic community and medical qualification

BACKGROUND In the regional movement toward ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), medical professions including physicians can be qualified to practice medicine in another country. Ensuring comparable, excellent medical qualification systems is crucial but the availability and analysis of relevant information has been lacking. OBJECTIVE This study had the following aims: 1) to comparatively analyze ...