Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work, provided the original author and source are credited. The purpose of this article is to give international readers an overview of the organisation, structure and curriculum, together with important advances and problems, of undergraduate medical education in Germany.
Interest in medical education in Germany has been relatively low but has gained momentum with the new "Regulation of the Licensing of Doctors" which came into effect in Medical education had required substantial reform, particularly with respect to improving the links between theoretical and clinical teaching and the extension of interdisciplinary and topic-related instruction.
It takes six years and three months to complete the curriculum and training is divided into three sections: basic science 2 years , clinical science 3 years and final clinical year. While the reorganisation of graduate medical education required by the new "Regulation of the Licensing of Doctors" has stimulated multiple excellent teaching projects, there is evidence that some of the stipulated changes have not been implemented.
Indeed, whether the medical schools have complied with this regulation and its overall success remains to be assessed systematically. Mandatory external accreditation and periodic reaccreditation of medical faculties need to be established in Germany.
In Germany, lectures in medicine were first given in in Heidelberg. The latest medical faculty was founded in Witten-Herdecke in Medical education in this country was once praised as a role model e. Nowadays, however, the German medical faculties are looking towards the United States [ 2 ], Canada, and other European countries such as the United Kingdom and the Netherlands for good examples to follow.
