Adolescent doctor
The specialization as a youth doctor in the health system of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was a form of medical training based on a two-year additional course .
The possibility of formal qualification as a youth doctor existed from 1982 and followed courses with voluntary participation, which were offered from the 1970s at the Academy for Medical Training of the GDR . The special technical focus of the training, which was aimed in particular at doctors working in the school medical field, was preventive medical aspects, the assessment of the age-related health and development status of young people, the prevention, control and epidemiological recording of infectious diseases , the implementation of hygiene measures in the sanitary facilities of Kindergartens and schools , health education for young people and emergency care for young people .
The department for child and youth health protection of the Society for Pediatrics of the GDR, the Academy for Medical Training of the GDR and the Ministry of Health were responsible for professional and organizational training as a youth doctor . After an independent specialist certification was initially planned, the training in the practice took place as a function-related qualification after previously completed specialist training for which the fields of pediatrics , general medicine or social hygiene were recommended. In the GDR almost all doctors working in the field of health protection for children and adolescents took advantage of further training to become a youth doctor.
In the Federal Republic of Germany , comparable courses existed at the University of Bielefeld in the 1980s and 1990s, but they were not based on uniform national training and recognition regulations.
literature
- Ursula Boßdorf: Adolescent doctor in the GDR - a state-recognized, specific form of medical training. In: Publ. Med. Ges. 10/2004 (double issue 48 / 49B). Published by the interest group medicine and society e. V., pp. 48-50, ISSN 1430-6964