Residency (medicine)

The medical training has as its goal, according to the license to practice medicine or after the grant of the license to practice medicine in the context of several years of professional activity to acquire in-depth knowledge, experience and skills for defined medical activities under the guidance for training of authorized physicians on the basis of further education regulations. These partially include the number according to specified diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.

The training regulations shall be made by the respective State Medical Association. However, these are closely modeled generally on the pattern further education regulations, which is developed by the German Medical Association. After the revision of 2003, the medical training is usually divided into three stages:

• Specialist: The Medical Council awards after examining the training at authorized doctors in a field the title of specialist sectors, such as General Practitioner, Consultant Neurologist, Consultant Urologist or Specialist in Anesthesiology. In some fields doing various specialist title (General Surgery specialist in vascular surgery, specialist, etc.) can be purchased, such as in surgery

• Focus: A focus is a specialization within a subject area at, example: Specialist in Child and Adolescent Medicine with focus on children Cardiology.

• Designation: The Additional titles can be purchased from doctors of different areas. They differ considerably in scope and training requirements. Examples are the additional titles emergency medicine, acupuncture, diabetology, etc. The additional designation, replacing the former technical qualification and other continuing education designations.

The currently valid training order ( since November 1, 2005 in force) writes at least once before annual staff appraisals and keep a logbook. This is a uniform national standard be established to not only improve the teaching, but it should also facilitate wizard to change from one state to another. The publications of the German Medical Association Pattern logs have since been elaborated by some professional societies even further.

Previous training systems saw further acquiring a technical qualification for certain methods of investigation before (X-ray, bronchoscopy, laboratory tests, duplex sonography, etc.). Optional refinements were carried out and certified, for example in internal medicine clinical geriatrics and intensive care. It is in a sense, " small areas ". Professionals and optional further developments are still valid, but are no longer issued. They have been merged into supplementary qualifications to part.