California Society of Dermatology & Dermatologic Surgery 2011 CalDerm Annual Meeting

To advocate freely chosen, unhampered relationships between trusting patients and compassionate physicians guided by their highest scientific, artistic, ethical and professional standards. The CDS objectives are to:

* Identify trends and movements in the health care delivery system, and impact those movements so that patients will obtain optimal
dermatologic care from those most qualified.
* Educate the public that the dermatologist is the physician who is most qualified by training to care for diseases of the skin, hair and nails.
* Educate the public on diseases of the skin.
* Support dermatology as a viable and necessary specialty in teaching medical centers.
* Support and urge basic research in dermatology.
* Protect the right of all specialties to expand and change in the competitive market place in response to society’s needs.
* Support the patient’s basic right to select the health care system of their choice.
* Challenge any action that would interfere with or constrain the doctor-patient relationship.
* Protect from any activity which would constrain the physician’s ability to practice their specialty in an optimal manner.