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The German Beureucracy in Medicine

Must be interesting to know that Germany is a high Beureucratic country. Beureucracy means that not a single step be completed if a lot of paperwork is not done. In simple words a lot of paper work is required to start a residency programm.
The three offices are involved namely the local city office, the ministry of labour and the doctors union ( Aerztekammer).
The time period is more or less 8 to 12 weeks for all the process to complete.
In Germany as a rule from the ministry of labour one is not entitled to have a paid job in Medical field, so one needs to get a sponsor or sponsor himself/herself for the whole period of residency(6-8 years).
The residency programm in Germany is not well defined as in US for example. Here is how it looks for Internal medicine.
first two years on the station of your medical speciality, this is a bit crappy, you directly start with a subspeciality instead of General Medicine.
Then next two years rotations in 4 subspecialities of your choice for 6 months each.
Finally for the rest of the two years you come back to your origional station and sit in outpatient and do more skilled work.