Specialist

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Distribution of specialties in the German medical profession

A specialist (also (in Switzerland) specialist or area doctor) is a doctor with recognized further training in a medical specialty.

Specialist may stay in Germany only one doctor call of a multi-year, currently and in accordance with EU requirements in full-time for at least five years of education completed and a specialist examination before a State Medical Association has successfully completed. The state medical associations issue further training regulations in their area of ​​responsibility, which are based on the (sample) further training regulations of the German Medical Association, on the duration, further training content and crediting of previous periods.

meaning

When treating a patient, the specialist standard applies in Germany , i. H. Treatment must be provided by a carefully working specialist doctor in accordance with the recognized standard of scientific medicine. In hospitals where night and weekend work is carried out by assistant doctors without a specialist doctorate, this is guaranteed by the permanent on-call duty of a specialist.

The acquisition of the title Specialist since 1993 requirement for admission as a contract physician of the statutory health insurance . Until then it was also possible to practice as a general practitioner .

In the area of ​​some state medical associations, efforts have been made to abolish general internal medicine as an independent field and instead to introduce the field names internal and general medicine and, in parallel, specialist titles for the individual focus names (e.g. internal medicine and cardiology for cardiology or internal medicine and Gastroenterology for gastroenterology ). Due to a lack of acceptance and the tense situation in primary care in rural areas , however, this was partially reversed and the “old” specialist in internal medicine, sometimes with modified training, was reintroduced.

Specialist types

General medicine

Clinical subjects

Clinical-theoretical subjects

Statistical overview

Working doctors in the Federal Republic of Germany, broken down according to doctor groups:

Specialist title Late 2007 Late 2008 Late 2010 at the end of 2012 Late 2017 Change from 2007 to 2010
Without subject area 91,861 93,593 98,346 102,468 113.817 + 7.1%
Internal Medicine 42,744 42,730 43,955 46.995 53,362 + 2.8%
General medicine 40,980 41,722 43.103 43,304 43,524 + 5.2%
surgery 19,430 19,441 19,786 20,066 21,459 1 + 1.8%
Anesthesiology 17,891 18,327 19,413 20,836 24,301 + 8.5%
Gynecology and Obstetrics 15,950 16,134 16,599 17,147 18,427 + 4.1%
Paediatrics 11,788 11,973 12,503 13,179 14,703 + 6.1%
Orthopedics 9,618 10.161 11,380 12,840 15,532 + 18.3%
Psychiatry and psychotherapy 7,499 7,856 8,663 9,485 11,037 + 15.5%
radiology 6,631 6,690 6,989 7,379 8,533 + 5.4%
Ophthalmology 6,613 6,638 6,805 6,980 7,497 + 2.9%
Otorhinolaryngology 5,566 5,566 5,696 5,922 6,295 + 2.3%
Skin-and venereal diseases 5.114 5,180 5,314 5,519 5,944 + 3.9%
urology 4,950 5,040 5,204 5,388 5,936 + 5.1%
Other specialties (e.g. neurology, occupational medicine) 28,277 28,646 29,843 34,782 + 5.5%
Total number of medical doctors 314,912 319,697 333,599 348,695 385.149 + 5.9%
Not medically active 98,784 101,989 105.491 120,865 + 6.7%

1: Without a specialist in orthopedics / specialist in orthopedics and trauma surgery

See also

Web links

Wiktionary: Specialist  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Specialist who . Duden online , accessed on January 22, 2014.
  2. ^ Glossary of Health Policy ( Memento of February 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians , accessed on January 22, 2014.
  3. ↑ D. Schulenburg: The specialist standard. In: Rheinisches Ärzteblatt , No. 4/2008, p. 13 (PDF) .
  4. ↑ aekno.de
  5. ↑ https://www.bundesaerztekammer.de/fileadmin/user_upload/downloads/pdf-Ordner/Weiterbildung/MWBO-16112018.pdf#page69 Retrieved on: February 4, 2019
  6. ↑ German Medical Association : Medical statistics from previous years. 2018, accessed January 8, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Medical statistics as of December 31, 2017 (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: www.bundesaerztekammer.de. German Medical Association, accessed on December 7, 2018 .