Fachkunderichtlinien und Kurse zur Qualifikation

Abstract

German regulations require a license for using ionizing radiation in medicine. This license-called "Fachkunde"-varies for different medical procedures such as CT, fluoroscopy, radiography, or mammography. The required frequencies and training times also vary for different medical disciplines such as radiology, cardiology, vascular surgery, traumatology, nuclear medicine, and radiotherapy, among others. The quality criteria for a specific license require a minimum training time under supervision and a minimum frequency of a wide range of procedures. Depending on the radiation doses used and the complexity of procedures performed, this may go up to 5000 examinations and 36 months for a radiology resident. A refresher course is mandatory every 5 years.

Current status and developments of German curriculum-based residency training programmes in radiation oncology

“…2 German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Partner Site Munich, Munich, Germany. 3 Department of Radiotherapy and Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany. 4 OncoRay-National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany.…”

“…The need for an improvement of both organisation in specialist training and quality, as well as comparability on a national scale was shown by Semrau et al [2]. In the subject area of ionizing radiation their training courses have already benefitted from such standardisation [3].…”