Weiterbildungsbedingungen fur Notarzte Conditions of Post-Graduate Training in Emergency Medicine in Germany

摘要

Due to a current shortage of doctors and an increasing number of emergency calls in an ageing population emergency physicians in Germany face new challenges. With the aim of providing a high level of quality nationwide a specialist designation in emergency medicine was introduced in 2003. While the curriculum regulates the contents of theoretical training, the duration and requirements to be met by physicians wishing to work in the field of pre-hospital emergency medicine differ between the various German State Chambers of Physicians. Also, there is no uniform regulation of training in the ambulance services. The specialist designation in emergency medicine is an attractive specialisation for the anaesthetist and raises the attractiveness of the speciality. However, further standardisation of specialist training is required. Uniform concepts for training and continuing medical education are needed to provide patients with life-threatening conditions with the highest level of medical care by a physician at the scene of the emergency.