[Are graduate education requirements in ophthalmology in Germany compatible with European standards?].
The advanced training of medical specialists is determined by federal regulation called '(Muster) Weiterbildungs-Ordnung'. As education and cultural affairs are subject of federal sovereignty, that regulation of postgraduate training is to be determined by the minister for education and culture in each of those 16 german federal states. To get an utmost identical regulation for Germany the federal councils of physicians have handed over the task of evaluation and upgrading of that regulation to the Bundesärztekammer (BAK). The BAK designs the novel of postgraduated training regulations as a kind of frame-work for all federal councils. That frame-work is called exemplary regulation. On the level of each federal country only editorial changes are added or submitted. Federal regulation is proposed to each federal minister for educational affairs and turned into validity by federal law. The renewed regulation, dated by late summer 1992, prescribes a minimum duration of training for ophthalmology of 5 years, which can be done in any acknowledged institution (university eye hospital, county hospital, municipal hospital or office of any eye-doctor, acknowledged for medical training). Two years of those five years duration may even be done in the office of any physician, who got the right for medical training. In addition to the essential regulation of ophthalmic training there are supplementary demands for special knowledge and abilities which should be fulfilled by each applicant for a specialist's diploma. Those demands precisely prescribe the number and degree of difficulty of special medical procedures as well as the degree of responsibility of the trainee for his activities.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005060:Europe; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D009885:Ophthalmology / Q000193:education*
Die Weiterbildungsordnung zum Augenarzt in Deutschland, Euro-compatibel?