Germany wants the best General Practitioners

Support for the training of general practitioners   In 2010 Germany implemented a training program for General Practitioners, with the pure goal of constant further training for physicians and a good collaboration between the hospitals and private practices.   Berlin 04.04.2012 The leading associations of statutory health insurance (SHI), the German Hospital Union (DKG) and…

Shortage of new recruits in the outpatient gastroenterological sector

  Ulm – About declining numbers of graduates in Gastroenterology reports the Association of Established Gastroenterologists. “The long training period, the intensive professional need and the risk of establishment apparently scares the young doctors”, said the chairman of the association, Huppe Dietrich, as a result of the analysis that was conducted in 14 states in…