Medical School and Study
The study of medicine, formally defined since antiquity (Doctrine and the Hippocratic Oath) and in Europe by EU legislation legally qualified, includes the training of physicians in the scientific and practical fields. It is subject to a minimum term of six years and 5,500 hours of training and ends (widely across Europe) with a Bachelor or Master. Only the Master's degree allows the practical vocational training as a doctor in the EU. Weiterführend doctors can earn a degree and qualify for the office as an independent physician with specialized training.
Due to the impulse of the Bologna process discussion of the bachelor's or master's degree that is not completely solved, it must be focused on the characteristics of individual states. The German medical school is governed by the Medical Licensure Act (last amended in 2002). Requirement for access to medical school is the university entrance (Abitur) or a recognized equivalent degree within the school or vocational training. The numerus clausus restricted the registration, some universities have a selection for a total of 60 percent of the applicants. The Foundation for Higher Education grants approval for 40 percent of applicants places: a fifth after high school average, another fifth to a waiting list.
The program provides hands-on all the health care knowledge and skills. These include:
Basic knowledge about bodily functions and mental characteristics
Basic knowledge about diseases
-Action basis for the doctor, especially diagnostic, therapeutic, preventive and rehabilitative skills
And practical experience in handling patients, and interdisciplinary
Health-economic knowledge
And sociological effects on health
-Historical, intellectual and ethical foundations of medical practice
The knowledge should always be to the latest standards. The German standard period of study is six years (12 semesters) and three months. The first to fourth semester includes the preclinical part with a final medical examination, from the third year of study, the clinical section begins with a 48-week practical training in the last academic year (practical year). The conclusion is the second part of the medical examination. With this final approval, the (state approval) to the practitioner may be requested.
The preclinical part provides scientific basis, he is broad and for professionals in many directions - but not all - common goods. Must attend 14 lectures and seminars, and exams must be passed. The subjects include biology, chemistry, physics, anatomy, psychology and sociology, and clinical medicine as well as an optional subject, plus a 90-day care placement. In the clinical part, General Medicine, Surgery, Dermatology, Gynaecology, ENT, genetics, neurology, pathology, internal medicine, orthopedics, pharmacology, virology, urology, as well as an optional subject taught and demanded performance records in other cross-sectional areas.