Specialist may call himself in Germany only that physician, who completed and successfully with a specialist examination locked a further training of several years. For length of time, training further contents and charge of Vorzeiten the national physician chambers for their scope of responsibility issue a training further order.

The acquisition of the title "specialist "is for some years a condition for the permission as a contract physician of the legal health insurances. Up to then it was possible to establish itself also as "a practical physician ".

At present efforts exist to abolish the internal medicine as independent area. In some Lands of the Federal Republic for it the area designations were inserted "inside and general medicine "as well as the area designations of the subsections (Kardiologie, Gastroenterologie etc.).

There are specialists for:

General medicine

• General medicine (the classical family doctor)

clinical fan

• Eye medicine (Ophthalmologie)
• Surgery
• (woman medicine) and birth assistance
• Neck nose ear medicine (HNO)
• Striking and sex diseases (Dermatologie and Venerologie)
• Heart surgery
• Internal medicine
  • house-medical internalist
  • specializedmedical internalist
  • Angiologie
  • Endokrinologie and Diabetologie
  • Gastroenterologie
  • and Onkologie
  • Kardiologie
  • Nephrologie
  • Pneumologie
  • Rheumatologie
• Child surgery
• Child medicine
• Child and youth psychiatry and - psychotherapie
• Clinical pharmacology
• Mouth Kiefer Gesichtschirurgie (additionally license to practise medicine needed as a dentist)
• Neurosurgery
• Neurology (into some '' nerve medicine '' together with psychiatry possible)
• Neuro radiology
• Nuclear medicine
• Phoniatrie and
• Physical one and Rehabilitative medicine
• Psychiatry and Psychotherapie (into some nerve medicine as well as neurology possible)
• Psychosomati medicine (before times Psychotherapeuti medicine)
• Radiology (picture-giving procedures)
• Right medicine
• Radiotherapy
• Transfusionsmedizin
• Urology

clinical-theoretical fan

• Industrial medicine
• Human genetics
• Hygiene and environmental medicine
• Laboratory medicine (clinical chemistry)
• Microbiology and infection epidemiology
• Neuropathlogy
• Public health service
• Pathology
• Pharmacology and toxicology

before-clinical fan

• Anatomy
• Biochemistry
• Physiology

Statistics (Federal Republic of Germany, Stand 31 December 2004)

• Hums all employed physicians and lady doctors: 306.000
• without specialist titles: 94.000
• COMPANY general medicine: 40.000
• COMPANY internal medicine: 39.000
• COMPANY surgery: 19.000
• 16.000
• Woman medicine: 15.000
• Child medicine: 11.000
• An orthopedist: 8.000
• Opticians: 6.500
• Psychiatrist: 6.400
• Radiologist: 6.300
• HNO physicians: 5.500
• Dermatologist: 4.900
• Urologen: 4.700

(Source: Federal Medical Society)

See also

• List of medical fields of activity

Related links

• Federal Medical Society (Germany)
• Physician chambers of the Lands of the Federal Republic (Germany)
• Physicians newspaper - on-line portal of the daily paper for physicians
• Connection of Swiss lady doctors and physicians FMH
• Training further order (since 2006)

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