General practice: the family doctor’s practice. The first point of contact for everything from a cold to a crisis, often over many years with the same families.
Training in Germany (model regulations)
• Training 60 months, including 24 in outpatient general practice and 12 in inpatient internal medicine
• Plus an 80-hour course in basic psychosomatic care
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Rate only how much you would like the situation.
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A full waiting room
Many patients in a short time, from a cold to chest pain. You decide quickly who needs what.
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Knowing patients for years
You often care for families across generations and know their story.
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A bit of everything
Skin, mind, heart, children, vaccinations: you cover a wide range and refer when needed.
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Living with unclear symptoms
Fatigue, dizziness, abdominal pain without a clear finding. You decide when to wait and when to investigate.
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Home visits and nursing homes
You visit patients who can no longer come to the practice, often near the end of life.
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Prevention and chronic care
Check-ups, vaccinations, diabetes and blood-pressure reviews at regular intervals.
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Psychosocial problems
Unemployment, loneliness, family conflict: many consultations are not purely physical.
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Running your own practice
If you set up in practice later, staff, billing and organisation become part of the job.
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Few big machines
Your tools are conversation, examination, labs and ultrasound, hardly any CT or catheters.
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This test is a structured self-assessment, not a validated psychometric instrument. The specialty profiles are informed estimates. Use the result as a starting point for conversations and check it with shadowing days and talks with specialists. Training information applies to Germany; the binding rules are those of the relevant state medical chamber. Specialty preferences often change during medical school, so retake the test after new rotations.
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