Medical training in Germany.

Undergraduate medical education in Germany

The purpose of this article is to give international readers an overview of the organisation, structure and curriculum, together with important advances and problems, of undergraduate medical education in Germany. Interest in medical education in Germany has been relatively low but has gained momentum with the new "Regulation of the Licensing of Doctors" which came into effect in 2003. Medical ...

The Medical Student in Germany

CONSIDERABLE attention is beinig given at the present time to the medical curriculum and the question as to how the medical student can to best advantage occupy his undergraduate years. In this connection it is of interest to compare our own system of medical education with that used in other countries, and I propose, therefore, to give some account of the training of the medical student in Ger...

Training in psychiatry and psychotherapy in Germany.

In Germany, medical students need six years before they are allowed to work as medical doctors or before they begin their specialist training. The first two years are mostly devoted to basic training (e.g. anatomy, biochemistry, physiology). During the clinical years, only a limited time is devoted to psychiatry. In a compulsory psychiatry course, students learn the basics of diagnosis and ther...

Teacher training for vocational schools in Germany

Training programmes in internal medicine: Germany.

Despite differences from one country to another, training programmes for an internal medicine specialist have several common denominators, starting with real hospital responsibilities, a feature which is a fundamental necessity. These responsibilities are guaranteed by institutions which are called, depending on the country, "internat des h6pitaux, assistanat, or clinicat." This training must b...