Abstracts by keywords: Medical Education
Economic aspects of health care have become significantly more important in the last 20 years and justify the introduction of health economics into the training of medical students. That is why the cross-sectional area Q3 “Health Economics / Health System / Public Health” was anchored in the medical licensing regulations in 2002. The design of the topics and the form of teaching was left to the institutes offering them, so that the theoretical content and the time scope of these lessons are not uniformly defined. The subject is not tied to any specific institute and is therefore shaped in Germany from the perspectives of different academic sub-fields. This results in major differences in the teaching offerings. The “Health System” and “Public Health Care” sub-areas of Q3 result from existing care structures, while the “Health Economics” sub-area has so far only existed as a discipline in economics. In addition to the 21 compulsory subjects, the medical course includes 14 cross-sectional subjects (e.g. Q1: epidemiology/medical biometry/medical informatics, Q7: medicine of aging and the elderly, Q14: palliative medicine) as well as block internships and elective subjects.