Medical Officer Candidate
Medical officer candidates ( SanOA ) are candidates for the career of officers in the medical service of the Bundeswehr . The relevant legal basis is contained in the Soldiers' Career Ordinance (SLV).
Notation
According to the Soldiers' Career Ordinance, the official designation is "Medical Officer Candidate" or "Medical Officer Candidate". The use of this “coupled” compound in the written military language of the Bundeswehr is limited to very formal contexts . In official documents such as the Soldiers Act (SG), the spelling can also be found without a hyphen. ( Article 30, Paragraph 2; Article 39, No. 2; Article 42, Paragraph 2; Article 49, Sentence 2; Article 56, Paragraph 4, Sentence 2 SG) As a rule, the abbreviation "SanOA" is used both verbally and in writing.
definition
Medical officer candidates for the Bundeswehr are soldiers on a temporary basis or professional soldiers who do not have a rank for medical officers as defined in the order of the Federal President on the rank designations and the uniform of the soldiers and who have one of the careers in accordance with the Soldier Career Ordinance in conjunction with the Central Service Regulations (ZDv) 20/7 belong to the officers of the medical service .
For the purposes of Soldatenlaufbahnverordnung include medical officer contender not formally to the cadets . Since, however, medical officer candidates are called very similarly and they are also candidates for a rank of officers in the sense of the order of the Federal President , they become officer candidates in civilian language and often informally within the Bundeswehr until they are appointed to a rank for officers counted. Often they are counted as officer candidates themselves in official service regulations and ordinances without any further differentiation.
It is a legal career classification of soldiers. With regard to salary , authority in the sense of the Superiors Ordinance , the permissible and customary positions , etc., medical officer candidates are equated with the corresponding team ranks , NCOs with and without porters and lieutenants (with the corresponding military service ).
Rank designations and additions
Medical officer candidates wear the usual ranks for men and lieutenants . The ranks for NCOs are only partially kept unchanged. Medical officer candidates in army or air force uniform use the rank designations Fahnenjunker , Fähnrich and Oberfähnrich instead of the ranks NCO , Sergeant and Hauptfeldwebel ; in the case of naval uniform wearers, instead of the ranks mate , bosun and captain, the ranks of midshipman , ensign at sea and senior midshipman at sea are used. In correspondence , medical officer candidates add the suffixes “(medical officer candidate)”, “(medical officer candidate)” or “(SanOA)” for short after their rank designation .
In contrast to the provisions of the Soldiers' Career Ordinance, brackets are often left out of the abbreviations in practice .
canditature
Applications must be submitted to a military service advisor at the Federal Office for Personnel Management of the Bundeswehr in the Liège Barracks (Cologne). A two-day selection process takes place at the assessment center for Bundeswehr executives . The applicants as medical officer candidates go through several stations to determine their suitability, which are the same as those for applicants as officer candidates . In addition, however, they have to pass a special "medical test" that tests their scientific knowledge. If the applicant is only interested in a medical service career, the otherwise compulsory computer-based math test is not required . In the “Student Advisory Service”, knowledge of biology , chemistry or other areas relevant to the desired course of study is tested. Motivation, duration and course of study as well as performance requirements are further subjects of the "Student Advisory Service".
Suitable applicants are placed in an order of suitability according to their performance. Most applicants are initially only informed of their suitability as a medical officer. Particularly suitable applicants receive an immediate confirmation. The other applicants will be informed of acceptance (or rejection) at the end of the recruitment period in order of suitability.
education
Basic training
The basic training will begin in July. Regardless of the armed forces, this takes place centrally at the “ Niederbayern ” medical training regiment in Feldkirchen .
Education
Medical officer candidates study at civil universities . You are entitled to study places that are not allocated by the University Admissions Foundation . The medical officer candidate can name preferred study locations. The wishes are usually met. An exchange of study places - also with civilian fellow students - is usually possible as long as this does not cause any delays.
During your studies, you will be assigned to a support unit close to the place of study. The support unit is the first point of contact for all business matters. A support officer is the disciplinary superior . As a rule, the troop doctor is also located in the care unit . Personnel administration continues to be carried out centrally by the Federal Office for Personnel Management of the Bundeswehr (BAPersBw). The care unit and the personnel office are regularly informed of the progress of the studies. Additional semesters must be approved by the BAPersBw. In the event of avoidable study delays, the Bundeswehr could demand termination of the employment relationship . The commitment period is extended for soldiers on time after two additional semesters a year.
During the semester break , medical officer candidates complete a two-part officer course at the medical academy of the Bundeswehr . Troop internships and clinical traineeships in facilities of the medical service or the medical services of the armed forces are desirable in order to gain experience in the troops and to promote identification with the troops.
Training allowance
The pay is because the medical officer contender his studies is on leave for the time as a " training allowance referred". The remuneration of medical officer candidates is explicitly set out in Section 30 (2) of the Soldiers Act and in Section 2 of the Medical Officer Candidate Training Fee Ordinance and should in principle cover all costs incurred during the course (e.g. learning materials, semester fees).
The tuition fees charged by some universities from the winter semester 2006/2007 were initially not covered by the Bundeswehr. The management staff of the medical service tried in vain to get the country to exempt the medical officer candidates studying on behalf of the state from payment. The Federal Ministry of Defense decided in April 2007 to take over the tuition fees retrospectively. Medical officer contender, the Association of German Sanoa eV and the German Armed Forces Association had prior to the unequal treatment of the medical officer contender against the charge at the universities of the Bundeswehr student cadets noted.
uniform
- Career badge for naval uniform wearers
swell
- ↑ a b c d Ordinance on the Careers of Soldiers (Soldiers' Careers Ordinance - SLV) . March 19, 2002 ( HTML [accessed on March 25, 2014] revised by notice of August 19, 2011 I 1813. Last amended by Art. 2 Par. 5 G of April 8, 2013 I 730).
- ↑ cf. Art. 1, The Federal President (Ed.): Order of the Federal President on the rank designations and the uniform of the soldiers . BPresUnifAnO. July 14, 1978 ( PDF - Order of the Federal President on the rank designations and uniforms of soldiers from July 14, 1978 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 1067 ), last amended by Article 1 of the order of May 31, 1996 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 746 ) has been changed).
- ↑ Note also: Annex (to § 3). Allocation of the career paths of the soldiers to the career groups of the men and women, the NCOs and the officers
- ↑ a b c The Federal Minister of Defense ; Personnel, Social and Central Affairs Department (Ed.): ZDv 20/7. Provisions for the transport and for the recruitment, acceptance and admission of soldiers . Bonn March 27, 2002, Art. 635 ( PDF ( memento of October 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on March 26, 2014] DSK AP210100187, reprint January 2008).
- ↑ DBwV: "Tuition fees are reimbursed" ( Memento from August 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Remarks
- ↑ ZDv 20/7 on the basis of Section 44 of the Soldiers ' Career Ordinance ( Ordinance on the Careers of Soldiers (Soldiers' Career Ordinance - SLV) . March 19, 2002, Section 44 ( HTML [accessed on March 25, 2014] Neugefasst by Bek. V. 19 August 2011 I 1813. Last amended by Art. 2 Paragraph 5 G of April 8, 2013 I 730). )
- ↑ Compare, for example, the order of the Federal President on the rank designations and uniforms of soldiers (III (3)) and the Central Service Regulations 37/10 (e.g. No. 509), which regulate the uniforms that all include "officer candidates" Mean candidates for an officer rank including medical officer candidates and military music officer candidates .