The Paris Society of Medicine is a medical organization

Medical organization

Medical organizations support the field of medicine, which is the branch of health science, concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, treatment and possible prevention of disease and injury....

 based in Paris, France. Its predecessor, the Société Royale de Médecine, was founded in 1730, and the society's current incarnation was founded in 1878.

Historical background

The society originates from the Société Royale de Médecine, which was founded in 1730. The "Société Royale de Médecine" was reformed in 1778, only to be abolished by the French Revolution

French Revolution

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 by way of the law of "20 Thermidor

Thermidor

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 Year I" (French revolutionary calendar, i.e. August 8, 1793). The Société de Médecine de Paris was founded on "2 Germinal

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 Year IV" (French revolutionary calendar, i.e. March 22, 1796). The present society is an officially recognized non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

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 by decree from February 5, 1878.

Overview

The Société de Médecine de Paris is an independent and interdisciplinary medical society that is open to professors, hospital physicians, clinicians, general practitioners or specialists, surgeons, biologists, and others. It is intended to support continuing medical education

Continuing medical education

Continuing medical education refers to a specific form of continuing education that helps those in the medical field maintain competence and learn about new and developing areas of their field. These activities may take place as live events, written publications, online programs, audio, video, or...

. During the plenary and ordinary sessions, everyone can freely express themselves, and specialists and lecturers can present the current state of research and knowledge in their field.

From its inception is has brought together many of the most famous physicians of the time, and has been chaired by Jean-Louis Baudelocque

Jean-Louis Baudelocque

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, René-Nicolas Dufriche Desgenettes

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, Dominique Jean Larrey

Dominique Jean Larrey

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, Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol

Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol

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, Ernest Besnier, and Pierre-Constant Budin

Pierre-Constant Budin

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. Georges Clemenceau

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 has been an honorary president. More recently, the presidents have been Edmond Lesné, Victor Pauchet, and Jean Lhermitte

Jean Lhermitte

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Today, the Paris Society of Medicine brings together researchers and practitioners from different fields of advanced medicine, such as Gabriel Blancher, fellow of the French Academy of Medicine... but also specialists applying the results of medical research in other areas of current interest in Research and Development, e. g. the "Human and Environmental Health", such as Mario Christian Meyer

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