The FMA looks after the interests of its members and offers them high quality advisory services and membership benefits. The negotiating department of the Association offers help in relation to professional legal matters as well as remuneration, contractual and social security issues. All FMA members receive Suomen Lääkärilehti (The Finnish Medical Journal) weekly. The journal is the medical publication most widely read by Finnish doctors. Its articles and English summaries are also available to members on the internet. The Association offers members the internet services doctors need in their work. All members and all medical students receive, free of charge, an internet user code and password. These allow access to the member pages of www.medassoc.fi, medical databases and other useful services of the Finnish Medical Network (FiMnet). The benefits available to FMA members include insurance coverage. The membership fee includes patient injury insurance for doctors in private practice, and the Association has also negotiated numerous other insurance policies under favourable terms to which members can join if they wish. FMA members can participate free of charge in the Doctors’ Unemployment Fund. This pays an earnings-related daily allowance during periods of unemployment. The Association also operates its own employment agency for job opportunities in Finland. Doctors who plan to work abroad can obtain information from the Association about applying for the right to practise medicine and about finding employment in a range of countries.
Services to Members
Förbund
The Finnish Medical Association -
Health Care and the Medical Profession in Finland
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