Without the use of foreign doctors would be in Germany’s hospitals and doctor’s offices, nothing more. In the past year, their number rose again, to 7.3 percent. So that every eighth of the country’s practitioners come from another country. Overall, now 48.672 foreign Doctors in Germany are in the care of the patients – almost three times as many as ten years ago. And if we add up the number in recognition of outstanding physicians, there are approximately 55.000.
most come from Romania
The information comes from a recent statistics of the Federal chamber of physicians, which was published on Friday. Accordingly, the number of migrant physicians grew in the year 2018 to around 3500. Most of the employed foreign Physicians come from Romania (4312) and Syria (3908), followed by Greece (2776) and Austria (2309). Also Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ukraine, Libya and Iran are well represented. The majority of foreign doctors to work in hospitals but also in ambulatory practices, their share is growing.
The influx of 1941, Doctors are, however, that have migrated abroad. The most popular Switzerland is, you moved in the last year alone, 590 German physician. According to Austria, 254, adopted in the United States 105. The formerly in medical circles, is also popular the United Kingdom came, probably because of the Brexit plans, only 59 of the emigrants from Germany.
more and more Physicians and more employed Physicians
Overall, were the statisticians for the past year 392.402 on employed Physicians – an increase of 1.9 percent compared to 2017. The proportion of women has grown, he is now 47.2 per cent. Striking is the increase of outpatient practitioners in the employment relationship: their number grew by 10.6 per cent to around 40 000. In contrast, the self-employed, office-based Physicians fell slightly – by 0.7 percent to 117.472.
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the President of The German medical Association, Frank Ulrich Montgomery, sees in this development a Problem. Because salaried Doctors usually come to the lower number of hours than practice owners, and even Doctors often work part-time. “The number of heads increases,” says Montgomery. “But you are not increasing fast enough to meet the growing treatment needs.” This could not compensate for the in-migration from abroad.
doctors President calls for more study places
If the policy is not creating more study places in human medicine, will lead the demographic change and significant supply shortages, warned the doctors President. “The population in Germany is one of the oldest in the world, and you will always be older. It is obvious that the need for treatment.“ In the winter semester of 1990/1991, the number of students was more of 95,000. Students. In the winter semester of 2015/2016, it had been less than 90,000.
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the Federal government and the Länder “for years by cheating and rely on the fact that the Doctors already.” It was right, Montgomery, “that the doctor’s young playing this game and not ready to go beyond its load limit“.
