Attending physician

Senior physician is a special term for a physician within a hierarchy.

Civil

A senior physician is a physician leaders, usually in a hospital or in a health care center. Due to its advanced or completed training (specialist ) he takes responsibility for a circumscribed area of ​​responsibility within his institution. A senior doctor is similar to a head of department. Especially at university hospitals is often the habilitation prerequisite for work as a senior physician.

A senior physician is responsible for one or more stations or functional units of the institution. Under his guidance, working medical assistants, which is opposite the head doctor for further obliged. The doctor available for any questions of its subordinate station doctors or function doctors to be safe and responsible activity of residents (eg through regular senior physician visits ) and adheres to the night and weekend service on the service plan as a "background doctor " for the clinic ready ( on-call or standby duty ).

As " Chief Medical Officer " refers to the chief physician of a hospital, which is appointed as permanent representative of the chief doctor and this represents the totality of his official duties.

As a " senior physician " means a doctor is called upon to perform the function of a senior physician, without a corresponding position to be filled and to relate without a corresponding content.

Senior physician was since 1898 the ranks of the previously mentioned medical assistant first-class members of the medical officer corps in the German Army. The doctor stood thus in the rank of lieutenant.

• Health Professional
• Grade ( Germany )