[Internal medicine--status and perspectives]. / Die Innere Medizin--Stand und Perspektiven.

ABSTRACT

Catalysed by the scientific progress in medicine an increasing specialisation in internal medicine developed with the danger of a disunion of the specialty. Nowadays, the internal medicine is tripartite with the basis internal specialists and the subspecialist as the two poles of the care of patients in the field of internal medicine. The description of the status quo in internal medicine shows reserves in training and education of the students as well as of the physicians during the period of specialisation which must be closed. It is essential for a qualification of the physician's work that basis internal specialists and proper specialists unite in the sense of a partnership and formulate professional and health-political aims for internal medicine.