In the future, specialists in general and family medicine will be trained. The Ministry of Health, the federal states, social insurance and the Medical Association have agreed on a new five-year training course. A medical degree is required.
The Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday that two out of five years in an educational practice must be completed. The demand for a suitable medical specialist has existed for years. Recently, there was special training for general practitioners, but no specialist training.
Now, after studying medicine, a basic training of nine months and a hospital rotation must be completed, which in turn lasts two years and three months. One year of this can be spent in an educational practice. The conclusion is a number of months of training in a practice. For the training as a general practitioner, therefore, more than three years must be invested after graduation.
The training is now being extended in steps to five years in 2030. The two extra years are filled in as teaching practice and mainly in the private sector. In addition, some changes to the three-year basic training have been decided, which the Ministry of Health has not yet explained in detail.
Rauch: “Making a job more attractive”
Minister of Health Johannes Rauch (Groenen) is convinced that specialist training would make the profession of general practitioner more attractive. Edgar Wutscher, head of the Federal Curia for general practitioners, also assumes that more young doctors would now choose this profession.
The content of the new training should include health promotion and disease detection and treatment. The aim is a holistic approach that takes into account the patient’s environment and living situation. The Arts Act will be discussed in the National Council in the coming months and then amended.
Source: Krone
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