Specialist in medicine
The job title scientific experts in medicine , even skilled chemist medicine , professional biologist medicine , professional physicists of medicine was to 1990 and similar designations, chemists , biologists , biochemists , physicists , engineers technical subjects and other times related scientists awarded that at the Academy of Medical Education of the GDR had completed a corresponding further education in the form of a five-year postgraduate course in Berlin . This course ended after a colloquium comparable to the specialist examination before a specialist committee of the academy with state recognition and entitled the graduates to independently carry out medical diagnostics measures within a certain specialist area .
Activity in the GDR
Due to health policy requirements, there were comparatively few doctors in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) who were active in laboratory diagnostics in the field of medicine . The medical scientists were thus responsible for this and for related specialist areas, including the creation and interpretation of findings , and were treated as doctors in these areas . They took over the tasks that are currently performed by corresponding specialists in laboratory medicine, pathology, pharmacology and toxicology, microbiology, diagnostic radiology and other disciplines.
As part of the further training to become a specialist in medicine, analogous to the training as a specialist, specialization in a certain subject area, such as " Clinical chemistry and laboratory diagnostics ", " Human genetics ", " Diagnostic and experimental microbiology ", " Cytology / histology ", " Immunology " “ Biochemistry ”, “ Medicinal Toxicology / Toxicological Chemistry ”, “ Biophysics ” or “ Biomedical Engineering ”.
In 1990 there were around 700 trained medical specialists specializing in "clinical chemistry and laboratory diagnostics" in the GDR.
Legal situation since 1990
After reunification in the accession area, the unification agreement gave protection to the existing status through a temporary suspension of the doctor's reservation for the corresponding services, so that medical scientists could initially continue their work until the end of 1994. Since then, in the federal states of Berlin , Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, they have been fundamentally authorized to carry out and account for medical laboratory examinations in their respective fields.
According to Paragraph 7 of the " Federal Shell Agreement - Doctors" or Paragraph 11 of the "Federal Shell Agreement - Doctors / Substitute Funds" you can be authorized by the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians to participate in contract medical care for services for which you are qualified to be self-employed by submitting appropriate certificates and certificates Be able to prove service provision. Specialists in medicine specializing in "clinical chemistry and laboratory diagnostics" are authorized to perform services in the areas of laboratory medicine, molecular genetics and molecular pathology in accordance with Chapter 32 as well as services in health and early detection examinations in accordance with Chapter 1.7 of the Uniform Assessment Standard for Medical Services (EBM ) allowed.
On the basis of this legal situation, a considerable part of laboratory medical diagnostics is still carried out by medical scientists in the mentioned federal states, both in clinical laboratories and in private practice.
Professional organizations and specialist societies
Within the Professional Association of German Laboratory Doctors , medical scientists are organized in their own section, alongside established laboratory doctors and clinic doctors. In addition, depending on state law, you can be a member of the respective state medical association and statutory health insurance association .
According to the guidelines for recognition as clinical chemists of the German Association for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (DGKL), medical scientists specializing in "clinical chemistry and laboratory diagnostics" are recognized as clinical chemists with advanced training.
Specialists in medicine specializing in "human genetics" can, on request, be recognized as specialist human geneticists in accordance with the advanced training regulations of the German Society for Human Genetics . The Professional Association of German Human Genetics (BVDH) is the professional policy forum for all specialists in human genetics and human geneticists (GfH).
The Network of Specialists in Medicine (nfm) represents the interests of the natural scientists working in medicine with different specializations such as human geneticists (GfH), clinical chemists and reproductive biologists.
Individual evidence
- ^ Dieter Meissner, Werner Jaross: Aspects of the Development of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine in the former East Germany. In: Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine. 40 (4) / 2002. Walter de Gruyter, pp. 411-418, ISSN 1434-6621
- ^ Professional Association of German Human Geneticists