About the Society

The Croatian Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology is a professional and scientific body of the Croatian Medical Association, which brings together physicians and other highly qualified experts from the area of gynaecology and obstetrics, gynaecopathology, gynaecocytology, and work in the Republic of Croatia.

The Assembly of the Croatian Society of Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology, in session on 07.04. 1999, in Zagreb, passed the constitutional act of the Society. The work of the Society is in line with the objectives and tasks of the Croatian Medical Association.

The headquarters of the society is in Zagreb, the Clinic for Gynaecological Disorders and Obstetrics, Clinical Hospital of the Sisters of Mercy, Zagreb, Vinogradska cesta 29. Tel: 00385 1 3787361; fax: 00385 1 3768272

The President of the Croatian Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology is:

Professor Goran Grubišić

In Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 9 Nov 1999. on 10 World Congress of Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology, Croatian Society was received as the member of IFCPC.

Our society consists from 120 members. They have shown great interest to development of colposcopy attending

The First croatian course of colposcopy held on 20 June 1998 in Zagreb (200 participants and reputable guest prof. Mario Peroni from Ascoli Piceno)

The reasons for constitution of Society were:

> Increasing number of young women (young nulliparae and those for childbearing) with abnormal Pap smears who need colposcopy.

> Current status in Croatia is following: Taking in the mind that about 2 000 000 women need almost once in 3 years Papa smear screening, this is the great task for about 450 gynecologists in Croatia who must yearly take about 670 000 Pap smears

> Among 2.000.000 women in 3 years we can expect about 2,5% abnormal Pap smears, i.e. 17 000 colposcopies in 3 years

> Emerges the necessity for educated colposcopists, and that is the main task of our young society

> All that points out the need for clinical units for cervical dysplasia and lower genital tract.

> The great possibilities of new telecomunication approach will enable modern communication with reputable experts for consulting and in the same moment achieving the best results.

The basic tasks of the Society are:

> Ongoing work to improve the professional and scientific qualifications of its members.

> The organisation of professional and scientific meetings, congresses, seminars, lectures and further qualification courses.

> Collaboration with scientific, teaching and health organisations for the purpose of as effective work as possible in the professional and scientific fields.

> The presentation of colposcopy, within the context of secondary measures for the prevention of neoplastic changes of the cervix and the lower genital tract, in professional and scientific bodies of the Croatian Medical Association.

> The development of ongoing collaboration with other societies and sections in the CMA in areas of joint interest.

> Collaboration with colposcopy and cervical pathology associations in other countries.

> Representation of the national interests in international associations.

> Establishing criteria for professional qualifications of physicians and standards in health care, and where necessary the provision of opinions about the professional and scientific qualifications of physicians in the area of the Society’s activity.

> Raising the health culture of the population by the use, among other things, of the media.

> Cultivation and development of the principles of medical ethics among its members, and the development of connections among its members.

> Supervision of the professional work of its members and other specialists interested in colposcopy and cervical pathology, and taking measures for the protection of patients or for the protection of its own members.