English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

The earliest available working document of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology, prepared in 1951 [1], declared that the objectives of our Society, which was founded in 1934, were 'the promotion of the knowledge of cardiovascular diseases and the support of measures in the fight against these diseases, and secondly promotion of the professional interests of the members'. In the notarial articles of 1977 [2], these objectives remained unchanged, except for the one on supporting measures in the fight against cardiovascular diseases, which had disappeared. Thirty years later, our Society articles (2007) show that the objectives now have a wider horizon, namely the development of cardiology and vascular medicine, the promotion of quality of care and the economic and social benefits of the members. It is assumed that these three pillars of Society policy are and will be able to cope with the requirements and questions emerging in the changing conditions of our time and the next decades. Consider for example the implementation of 'hospital office hours' versus the former 24 h/7 day duties to reduce fatigue in physicians and residents [3], the growing female emancipation in medicine [4], and the expending influence of patient organisations, health authorities, insurance companies and specifically the media. These factors not only affect the Society as an institute and organisation but also the cardiology community defined as its individual members spread out over the country. Intense mutual understanding and interaction is needed from both the Society and the local cardiology community. At the occasion of the 80th birthday of our Society, I prefer to address two supportive topics for our Society because I would regret if our Society were to become a 'bloodless' organisation, comparable with the crumbling Dutch trade unions due to the disinterest of their members. In the area of development of cardiology and vascular medicine, our Society has reduced its steering role in creating facilities for cardiovascular presentations of Dutch origin at the biannual national congresses; these are clustered between professional business and quality of care discussions. It is taken for granted that our Society is not actively involved in complex cellular, experimental or human studies. The independent cardiology departments of universities, fighting for their impact factor, and large general hospitals are better equipped to embark alone or together with the Netherlands Heart Foundation, ICIN-Netherlands Heart Institute, or drug and device companies on this type of (multicentre) study. I doubt whether this …

Society and community: the role of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology