Internship (medicine)

The completion of a 18-month period as a medical resident in the Federal Republic of Germany was to enhance the full license to practice medicine in the period from 1 July 1988 to 30 September 2004 necessary. This scheme was found in the German Federal Medical Code. Outside of Germany, there is for example in the UK, a similar scheme (Junior House Officer ).

On 6 May 2004, the German Bundestag has decided unanimously by a change in the Federal Medical Code to abolish the medical resident with effect from 1 October 2004. Since then, health care professionals who have successfully completed studies immediately their license to practice medicine and the status of a medical assistant at the commencement of trading in a clinic.

The target of the introduction of the physician in the practical improvement of medical education has been specified. Certain activities allowed a medical resident to run only under direct or indirect supervision of a doctor vollapprobierten. At the same time the compensation was significantly reduced to approximately 1600 to 1900 DM per month. Thus, individual posts for junior doctors in two or three AiP sites were often converted into hospitals. Of those affected was criticized at the time that the lower level of pay often faced no better training that hospital interns the same as before the work is done by junior doctors.

Was there with the introduction in 1988 of free training places regularly many applicants, the hospitals, however, the beginning of the 21st century had problems filling positions for doctors. In order to increase the attractiveness of medical school and the medical profession, should be (mostly according to BAT IIb) raised by eliminating the AiP time the starting salary of a doctor again on the usual in other academic level. The associated additional costs contribute mainly the insurance companies that apply this means become vacant by savings in the wake of health care reform began in 2004.

The comparable institution in Austria is the basis.

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