The Logbook (das Logbuch): Content of each medical residency (die Facharztausbildung)

• The logbook: What should be done in each medical residency

What should be done in each medical specialty is written in something called the “logbook” (🇩🇪 das Logbuch). What skills need to be learned and things to be done in each medical specialty should be written in the logbook. These logbooks contain usually 5-10 pages and are published by each of the 17 medical associations (🇩🇪 die Ärztekammer) in Germany

For example, for neurology, this is a part of the logbook:

In surgical specialties, the log book would mention, among other things, how many operations should be done (e. g. 50 appendectomies, 30 cholecystectomies, etc.).

• But who publishes the logbook?

• The German Medical Associtation (Die Bundesärztekammer)

They publish in their website a document as a PDF file containing all the details about each specialty. The document is called:

(Muster-)Weiterbildungsordnung
🇺🇸 (Model-)training regulations

The most recent version is from 2018. You can download it from this link.

As the name of the above documents says, this is a model version. Germany has 16 states but 17 medical associations (because the state of North Rhine-Westphalia has two medical associations). Each one of these 17 medical association have a slightly modified version of the model version above.

• Finding the training regulations from each medical association

Simply google for: “Weiterbildungsordnung NAME-OF-SPECIALTY in NAME-OF-MEDICAL-ASSOCIATION” (e. g. “Weiterbildungsordnung Neurologie in Ärztekammer Berlin“)

• What does the (Muster-)Weiterbildungsordnung dictate?

It dictates:

(1) The log book (= what needs to be done/learnt)

(2) Duration of the residency period (🇩🇪 die Facharztausbildung)

(3) Which rotations are needed and could be recognized (for example, to be a neurologist, you need at least a rotation of 1 year in psychiatry. Or to be a general surgeon, you need to have done 18 months of training in “orthopedics and trauma surgery” and six months in an intensive care unit)

• Related articles

In other articles, we wrote the durations of all medical residencies in Germany (🇩🇪 die Facharztausbildung) and what could cause delays in your finishing your residency on time:

• 🇩🇪 Durations of the residency programs in Germany (🇩🇪 die Dauer der Facharztausbildung)

• 🇩🇪 Doctors: Factors that could increase your residency period (🇩🇪 die Facharztausbildung) in Germany

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